Sleep

Sleep

Introduction

The different stages of sleep

Rhythmic alternating of NREM sleep and REM sleep

Sleep in different animal species

Multiform behaviour - increasingly complex as we climb the zoological ladder

Sleep and the brain

Functional anatomy of sleep

Physiology in sleep

Sleep and how the organism works

Sleep regulation

Sleep at different stages of life and after sleep deprivation

The function of sleep

Many hypotheses, no definite answer

The pathology of sleep

Insomnia and  hypersomnia

Epicrisis

What can be done?

Recommended reading

Glossary

R. Amici ,   P.L. Parmeggiani     

Useful links

  The World Federation of Sleep Research & Sleep Medicine Societies

  Sleep home pages

 European Sleep Research Society

 Società Italiana di Ricerca sul Sonno

  Associazione Italiana Medicina del Sonno