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.
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
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
March 2009 Vol 10 No 3
How (and why) the immune system makes us sleep
Luca Imeri & Mark R. Opp
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