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Hypothalamic Regulation of Sleep in Rats. An Experimental Study

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Neuroanatomy

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The essential role of the nervous system in the regulation of the sleep-waking rhythm of higher animals is now widely recognized. No less a person than von Economo, however, drew attention to the fact that the phenomenon of sleep cannot be accounted for by a mere functional change of the central nervous system from its condition during the waking state. It is indeed an important fact that the function of sleep, instead of being characteristic of higher animals, is also observed in organisms which do not possess a central nervous system, and even in several vegetable species. It is therefore impossible to attribute this mysterious function to any special organ. Since all experimental work on sleep has hitherto been confined to mammals, chiefly to cats and monkeys, practically no data concerning the comparative physiology of this phenomenon are available. Nevertheless, it seems probable that during the phylogenetic development the function of sleep, together with many other mechanisms, was progressively centralized into the nervous system from which organ all changes, characteristic of sleep, were ultimately effected. This centralization proceeded so far that the alternation of wake and sleep seems to be governed in mammals by a circumscribed area of the central nervous system, capable of determining physical and psychical activities. The existence of this “centre” for the regulation of sleep is generally accepted by students of this subject.

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Nauta, W.J.H. (1993). Hypothalamic Regulation of Sleep in Rats. An Experimental Study. In: Neuroanatomy. Contemporary Neuroscientists. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7920-1_6

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