Sleep, REM - Physiology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

REM sleep and dreaming: towards a theory of protoconsciousness.

29 Sep 2009 Dreaming has fascinated and mystified humankind for ages: the bizarre and evanescent qualities of dreams have invited boundless speculation about their origin, meaning and purpose. For most of the twentieth century, scientific dream theories were ... Read more...

[Parasomnias]

22 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Parasomnias are undesirable experiences or motoric phenomena that occur in association with sleep. We have described characteristics of parasomnia subtypes. MATERIAL AND METHOD: This review is based on the authors' research and clinical ... Read more...

Discharge profiles of identified GABAergic in comparison to cholinergic and putative glutamatergic basal forebrain neurons across the sleep-wake cycle.

21 Sep 2009 Whereas basal forebrain (BF) cholinergic neurons are known to participate in processes of cortical activation during wake (W) and paradoxical sleep (PS or P, also called REM sleep), codistributed GABAergic neurons have been thought to participate in ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Sleep, REM - Physiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• REM sleep and dreaming: towards a theory of protoconsciousness. 29 Sep 2009
• [Parasomnias] 22 Sep 2009
• Discharge profiles of identified GABAergic in comparison to cholinergic and putative glutamatergic basal forebrain neurons across the sleep-wake cycle. 21 Sep 2009
• Changes in rapid eye movement sleep associated with placebo-induced expectations and analgesia. 21 Sep 2009
• [Basic sleep mechanisms] 8 Sep 2009
• Does the circadian modulation of dream recall modify with age? 30 Aug 2009
• Lucid dreaming: a state of consciousness with features of both waking and non-lucid dreaming. 30 Aug 2009
• Cholinergic modulation of GABAergic and glutamatergic transmission in the dorsal subcoeruleus: mechanisms for REM sleep control. 30 Aug 2009
• Orexin neurons are necessary for the circadian control of REM sleep. 30 Aug 2009
• Evidence of subthalamic PGO-like waves during REM sleep in humans: a deep brain polysomnographic study. 30 Aug 2009
• Regulation of neuronal activities within REM sleep-sign generators. 30 Aug 2009
• Overnight therapy? The role of sleep in emotional brain processing. 30 Aug 2009
• The transcriptional repressor DEC2 regulates sleep length in mammals. 12 Aug 2009
• [Effects of memantine on convulsive reactions and sleep-waking cycle in Krushinskii-Molodkina strain rats with the inherited predisposition to audiogenic convulsions] 30 Jul 2009
• Sleep-inducing factors. 30 Jul 2009
• Sleep-related changes in hemodynamic and autonomic regulation in human hypertension. 30 Jul 2009
• Sleep disorders in Parkinson's disease: the contribution of the MPTP non-human primate model. 23 Jul 2009
• Medullary circuitry regulating rapid eye movement sleep and motor atonia. 20 Jul 2009
• The comodulation measure of neuronal oscillations with general harmonic wavelet bicoherence and application to sleep analysis. 12 Jul 2009
• Heat synch: inter- and independence of body-temperature fluctuations and brain-state alternations in urethane-anesthetized rats. 6 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Sleep, REM'

Definition: A stage of sleep characterized by rapid movements of the eye and low voltage fast pattern EEG. It is usually associated with dreaming.

Descriptor UI: D012895

Alternative terms: Sleep, REM; REM Sleep; Rhombencephalic Sleep; Sleep, Rhombencephalic; Sleep, Fast-Wave; Sleep, Fast Wave; Fast-Wave Sleep; Fast Wave Sleep; Paradoxical Sleep; Sleep, Paradoxical; Rapid Eye Movements; Eye Movement, Rapid; Eye Movements, Rapid; Movement, Rapid Eye; Movements, Rapid Eye; Rapid Eye Movement;

Allowable Qualifiers: drug effects; genetics; immunology; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.830.855.796.671; G11.561.600.815.754.671;

History Note: 69