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Neural mechanisms of sleep and anaesthesia
2016-01-01
Abstract excerpt
The daily transition we take in and out of sleep is ancient and occurs in all known mammals. Ancient also is human manipulation of this transition - across cultures there have been herbal remedies to prolong wake, shorten latency to sleep and induce a state of reversible unconsciousness known as anaesthesia. While we have discovered specific brain structures necessary for maintenance of sleep and wake and protein...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8bde5b5e-b938-5641-a383-e5a4a460b239
- DOI
- 10.25560/31601
