Sleep Deprivation and the Organization of the Behavioral States**Supported by grants from NIMH (MH-13860), from NASA (NGR 05-020-168), and by a Research Scientist Award from NIMH (MH-5804)
Elsevier eBooksPublished 1 January 1972
William C. Dement
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The results of a selective deprivation of rapid eye movement sleep are explored, giving attention to effects on sleep, behavioral changes, brain excitability, pharmacological changes, and biochemical changes.
Abstract
Questions concerning the significance of sleep in the developing organism are investigated, together with the mechanisms that underlie the unique distribution of behavioral states at any particular age and during any particular experimental manipulation. It is attempted to define the states of sleep and wakefulness in terms of a temporal confluence of a number of more or less independent processes, taking also into account the functional consequences of these attributes. The results of a selective deprivation of rapid eye movement sleep are explored, giving attention to effects on sleep, behavioral changes, brain excitability, pharmacological changes, and biochemical changes.
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