Jerome Siegel

The Neural Control of Sleep and Waking

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

My first contact with "the other" Jerome Siegel came in 1973, when I moved to Los Angeles to do postdoctoral work at UCLA. My thesis work had been listed in a nationally available posting without any address. The Brain Inf- mation Service, thinking they knew where I was, listed "the other" Jerome Siegel's Delaware address for reprint requests. I soon received a letter from Jerry along with the requests he had received and we have remained in c- tact ever since. I am occasionally reminded of my namesake when I meet a new colleague who is impressed that someone "so young" published a paper in Science in 1965 (one year out of high school, if it had been me). I entered the field in the early 1970s just as he left. My interests in REM sleep and brainstem mechanisms have been eerily similar to his (and he also did po- doctoral work at UCLA), so our research contributions can be distinguished easily only by my use of my middle initial (which has occasionally been om- ted from my publications). So, my namesake and I both have an interest in seeing to it that no one "brings shame to the name. " The current work certainly fulfills that dictum. This is a very unusual book, both in its scope and in its approach to the - terial.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer New York / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-387-95536-0
• 2002
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9780387955360
• ISBN-10: 0387955364
• Artikelnr.: 21373155

Autorenporträt

Jerome Siegel, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Preface * Acknowledgements * A Brief Synopsis of Neuroanatomy * Technological Developments * Early Research on Brain Mechanisms of Sleep and Waking * The Discovery of the Ascending Reticular Activating System * The Neural Pathways that Produce Arousal * Forebrain and Hindbrain Inhibition of the Reticular Activating System * EEG Synchrony and Behavioral Inhibition * Cellular Mechanisms and Neural Circuits that Produce Sleep * Sleep Factors * Sleep as a Circadian Rhythm * The Discover of REM Sleep * The Neural Control of REM Sleep * Theories of Sleep and Waking * Disorders of Sleep and Waking * References * Abbreviations * Glossary * Index