Why we sleep: the evolutionary pathway to the mammalian sleep

• 1 November 2000
• journal article
• review article
• Published by Elsevier in Progress in Neurobiology
• Vol. 62  (4) , 379-406
• https://doi.org/10.1016/s0301-0082(00)00013-7

Abstract

Keywords

• SLEEP FUNCTION
• SLEEP EVOLUTION
• CORTICAL WAKING
• MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION
• CSF
• CEREBRO-SPINAL FLUID
• DNA
• DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID
• EEG
• ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM
• EYE MOVEMENTS
• EMG
• ELECTROMYOGRAM
• EOG
• ELECTRO-OCULOGRAM
• HVS
• HIGH VOLTAGE SPIKES
• PGO
• PONTO GENICULO OCCIPITAL SPIKES