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Some Monoaminergic Mechanisms Controlling Sleep and Waking

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The nervous system is a super-organization comprising many sub-systems. This truism should be kept in mind when studying sleep mechanisms. The fact that rather limited, specific brain stem lesions are able to suppress either sleep or waking is a good reason to believe that certain systems are specialized to control the sleep-waking rhythm. This is a more promising approach to the problem of sleep-waking mechanisms than that which presupposes that every neuron possess a “built in” waking-sleep rhythm similar to the mysterious periodical firing shown by isolated neurons of Aplysia (Strumwasser, 1965).

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Jouvet, M. (1972). Some Monoaminergic Mechanisms Controlling Sleep and Waking. In: Karczmar, A.G., Eccles, J.C. (eds) Brain and Human Behavior. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95201-2_10

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