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Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
  • Regulation and Function
  • Edited by Birendra N. Mallick, S. R. Pandi-Perumal , Robert W. McCarley, Adrian R. Morrison
  • Published online:
    07 September 2011
    Print publication:
    14 July 2011
  • Spanning over half a century of investigation into Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, this volume provides comprehensive coverage of a broad range of topics in REM sleep biology. World renowned researchers and experts are brought together to discuss past and current research and to set the foundation for future developments. Key topics are covered in six sections from fundamental topics (historical context and general biology) to cutting-edge research on neuronal regulation, neuroanatomy and neurochemistry, functional significance and disturbance in the REM sleep generating mechanism. A reference source for all aspects of REM sleep research, it also incorporates chapters on neural modelling, findings from non-human species and interactions between brain regions. This is an invaluable resource, essential reading for all involved in sleep research and clinical practice.

  • Preface

  • Edited by Birendra N. Mallick, Jawaharlal Nehru University, S. R. Pandi-Perumal , Robert W. McCarley, Harvard University, Massachusetts, Adrian R. Morrison, University of Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
    Published online:
    07 September 2011
    Print publication:
    14 July 2011, pp xv-xvi

  • Summary

    Preface

    Since the publication of the first edition of Rapid Eye Movement Sleep (Mallick and Inoue, 1999), the advances in the field of sleep research have been phenomenal; in particular, those concerning rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. The emphasis on REM sleep may be gauged by the fact that recently a conference exclusively devoted to this subject was organized in France to celebrate 50 years since the discovery of REM sleep as well as to honor Professor Michel Jouvet, a pioneer and one of the doyens in this field.

  • 4 - The discovery of REM sleep: the death knell of the passive theory of sleep

  • from Section I - Historical context
  • Edited by Birendra N. Mallick, Jawaharlal Nehru University, S. R. Pandi-Perumal , Robert W. McCarley, Harvard University, Massachusetts, Adrian R. Morrison, University of Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
    Published online:
    07 September 2011
    Print publication:
    14 July 2011, pp 31-39

  • Summary

    Summary

    Withdrawal from the influence of the outside world seemed a reasonable explanation for the onset of sleep for many years. This view, the passive theory of sleep, held sway despite some evidence to the contrary from lesion and stimulation studies as well as the effects of natural disease of the hypothalamus. Discovery of the ascending reticular activating system did not demolish this idea; for this system was considered merely to transmit the effects of sensory withdrawal, a role previously assigned to long ascending pathways. Even the 1953 discovery of REM sleep, which presented features different from “classical” sleep, could not convince some to abandon the passive theory. By the end of the decade, though, so much evidence for complexity in the organization of sleep and wakefulness had accumulated, including the demonstration of REM sleep in decerebrate cats, that the active theory of sleep finally prevailed.