Sleep in brain development

With the discovery of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, sleep was no longer considered a homogeneous state of passive rest for the brain. On the contrary, sleep, and especially REM sleep, appeared as an active condition of intense cerebral activity. The fact that we get large amounts of sleep in early...

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Main Authors: PATRICIO D PEIRANO, CECILIA R ALGARÍN
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-01-01
Series:Biological Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602007000500008