Brain Control of Wakefulness and Sleep

1. Changing Concepts of Mechanisms of Waking and Sleep States

2. Methodology of Morphological and Physiological Substrates Underlying States of Vigilance

3. Afferent and Efferent Connections of Brainstem and Forebrain Modulatory Systems

4. Neuronal Circuits in the Thalamus, Neocortex, and Hippocampus, Targets of Diffuse Modulatory Systems

5. Intrinsic Electrophysiological Properties of Brainstem and Forebrain Neurons

6. Neurotransmitter-Modulated Currents of Brainstem Neurons and Some of Their Forebrain Targets

7. Synchronized Brain Oscillations Leading to Neuronal Plasticity during Waking and Sleep States

8. Brainstem and State dependency of Thalamocortical Systems

9. Neuronal Activities in Brainstem and Basal Forebrain Structures Controlling Waking and Sleep States

10. Motor Systems

11. Neuronal Control of REM Sleep

12. REM Sleep as a Biological Rhythm: The Phenomenology and a Structural and Mathematical Model with Application to Depression

13. The Role of Active Forebrain and Humoral Systems in Sleep Control

Avainsanat: Biomedicine, Neurosciences