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Limbic and Autonomic Nervous Systems Research

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Whenever I encounter an introductory textbook concerned in one way or another with functional neuroanatomy, I always turn first to the subject index and look up the term sleep. This topic is usually (but not always) listed in such texts these days, but one is almost always disappointed with the treatment it receives. I have yet to find more than two or three para­graphs devoted to the mysterious process which “ravels up the tattered sleeve of care” and consumes more than one-third of our existence. Most of what is written is often concerned, paradoxically, with such things as arousal functions of the midbrain reticular formation, mechanisms of thalamic recruiting responses, and even the neurophysiology of occlusion.

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Sterman, M.B. (1974). Sleep. In: Limbic and Autonomic Nervous Systems Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4407-0_12

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