Sleep

Sleep is important for health and cognitive function. Nature Reviews Neuroscience presents a series of articles that review our understanding of the genetic, cellular and systems basis of sleep. The series will also highlight advances in our understanding of the function of sleep.



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2010

August 2010 Vol 11 No 8

Sleep and circadian rhythm disruption in psychiatric and neurodegenerative disease

Katharina Wulff, Silvia Gatti, Joseph G. Wettstein & Russell G. Foster

February 2010 Vol 11 No 2

The memory function of sleep

Susanne Diekelmann & Jan Born

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2009

November 2009 Vol 10 No 11

REM sleep and dreaming: towards a theory of protoconsciousness

J. Allan Hobson

October 2009 Vol 10 No 10

Sleep viewed as a state of adaptive inactivity

Jerome M. Siegel

August 2009 Vol 10 No 8

The genetic and molecular regulation of sleep: from fruit flies to humans

Chiara Cirelli

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March 2009 Vol 10 No 3

How (and why) the immune system makes us sleep

Luca Imeri & Mark R. Opp

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2008

December 2008 Vol 9 No 12

Sleep as a fundamental property of neuronal assemblies

James M. Krueger, David M. Rector, Sandip Roy, Hans P. A. Van Dongen, Gregory Belenky & Jaak Panksepp