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Vestibular Influences during Sleep
Ottavio Pompeiano
- pp 583-622
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Independent but mutually related mechanisms are responsible for the two phases of sleep, including the synchronized phase and the desynchronized phase.Abstract:
Recent experiments indicate that sleep is not a passive event but an active phenomenon involving several brain structures (cf. Moruzzi, 1963; Jouvet, 1967). Physiological sleep of mammals consists of a synchronized phase, or light sleep, characterized by large-amplitude, slow electroencephalogram (EEG) waves, frequently grouped in spindles (cf. Moruzzi, 1963) and a desynchronized phase, or deep sleep, characterized by low voltage, fast cortical waves (Dement, 1958, 1964), and a great reduction of the tonic electromyographic (EMG) activity recorded from the postural neck muscles (Jouvet, 1962, 1967). One typical feature of desynchronized sleep is the sudden appearance from time to time of bursts of rapid eye movements, REM (Aserinsky and Kleitman, 1953, 1955; Dement, 1958, 1964; Jouvet, 1962, 1967), often associated with a typical motor pattern, characterized by the occurrence of quick muscular contractions (cf. Gassel et al., 1964 c). Independent but mutually related mechanisms are responsible for the two phases of sleep.read more
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