Year: 2014
Edition: 3rd ed.
ISBN: 978-5-9963-1204-7
Pages: 239
Subject: Biology
Format: 145 x 215 mm
Cover: Hardcover
The book deals with the following issues related to the cycle "wake—sleep" regulation: phenomenology and definitions, anatomy, physiology and neurochemistry of the corresponding brain systems, organization of diurnal "biological clock" of the body, interaction of circadian and homeostatic mechanisms, molecular genetic mechanisms; evolution of sleep; sleep deprivation, sleep and memory, sleep and hormones, peptide DSIP role in the regulation of sleep. The information, based on the latest data, is for the first time published in Russian.
Each chapter contains brief introduction to this problem, and the list of recommended English-language theoretical works’ review. The annex contains six short essays on the history of somnology.
The book is intended for scientists and university teachers and can be used as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students specializing in the fields of physiology, psychophysiology and psycho neurology.
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