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Brainstem control of wakefulness and sleep

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A monograph communicating the current realities and future possibilities of unifying basic studies on anatomy and cellular physiology with investigations of the behavioral and physiological events of waking and sleep.
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A monograph communicating the current realities and future possibilities of unifying basic studies on anatomy and cellular physiology with investigations of the behavioral and physiological events of waking and sleep. Steriade established the Laboratory of Neurophysiology at Laval U., Quebec; McCarl

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