Brainstem Control of Wakefulness and Sleep

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Changing Concepts of Mechanisms of Waking and Sleep States....Pages 1-23
Methodological Advances in Knowledge of Morphological Substrates Underlying States of Vigilance....Pages 25-38
The Origin of Afferents to the Brainstem Core....Pages 39-65
Efferent Connections of Brainstem Neurons....Pages 67-125
Intrinsic Electrophysiological Properties of Brainstem Neurons and Their Relationship to Behavioral Control....Pages 127-161
Neurotransmitter-Modulated Ionic Currents of Brainstem Neurons and Some of Their Targets....Pages 163-201
Synchronized Brain Oscillations and Their Disruption by Ascending Brainstem Reticular Influxes....Pages 203-229
Brainstem Ascending Systems Controlling Synaptic Transmission of Afferent Signals....Pages 231-262
Brainstem Genesis and Thalamic Transfer of Pontogeniculooccipital Waves....Pages 263-282
Motor Systems....Pages 283-324
Neuronal Control of the Sleep—Wake States....Pages 325-361
REM Sleep as a Biological Rhythm....Pages 363-393
Brainstem Mechanisms of Dreaming and of Disorders of Sleep in Man....Pages 395-433
Back Matter....Pages 435-499