Overview

Handbook of Sleep Research, Volume 30, provides a comprehensive review of the current status of the neuroscience of sleep research. It begins with an overview of the neural, hormonal and genetic mechanisms of sleep and wake regulation before outlining the various proposed functions of sleep and the role it plays in plasticity, and in learning and memory. Finally, the book discusses disorders of sleep and waking, covering both lifestyle factors that cause disrupted sleep and psychiatric and neurological conditions that contribute to disorders.

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Author:   Hans Dringenberg (Professor, Department of Psychology and Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
Weight:   2.250kg
ISBN:  

9780128137437

ISBN 10:   0128137436
Pages:   756
Publication Date:   22 June 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Theme A: Brain activity during sleep and waking 1. Neuronal activity during the sleep-wake cycle 2. Timing and topography of sleep onset: asynchronies and regional changes of brain activity 3. Local patterns of sleep and wakefulness 4. Hippocampal information processing and homeostatic regulation during REM and non-REM sleep Theme B: Regulation of Waking and Sleeping 5. The circuit, cellular and synaptic bases of sleep-wake regulation 6. Hypocretin and the regulation of sleep-wake transitions 7. Serotonergic systems in sleep and waking 8. Adenosinergic control of sleep/wake behavior 9. NREM sleep regulation from neuronal assembly to ion 10. Neurobiological mechanism of non-REM sleep 11. The genetic regulation of human sleep-wake rhythms and patterns 12. Circadian and homeostatic regulation of sleep 13. The role of glia in sleep-wake regulation and function 14. Interactions between sleep and breathing 15. Neurobiological parallels, overlaps and divergences of sleep & anaesthesia Theme C: REM Sleep and Dreaming 16. Neuroanatomical and neurochemical systems involved in REM sleep generation 17. Functions and circuits of REM sleep 18. Structural and functional differences in brain mechanisms of dream recall 19. Consciousness and meta-consciousness during sleep Theme D: Evolution, Cross-Cultural and Comparative Approaches, and Novel Model Systems 20. Evolution of sleep and adaptive sleeplessness 21. Hunter-gatherer sleep and novel human sleep adaptations 22. Sleep in Drosophila 23. Sleep, immunity, and stress: novel insights from Drosophila 24. Sleep in fish models 25. Sleep in aquatic mammals 26. The role of sleep in song learning processes in songbird Theme E: Sleep, Plasticity, and Memory 27. Sleep and brain development 28. Sleep and plasticity 29. Sleep-wake and cortical synaptic plasticity 30. Sleep stages and neural oscillations: A window into sleep’s role in memory consolidation and cognitive abilities 31. Cued memory reactivation: A tool to manipulate memory consolidation during sleep 32. Sleep and memory consolidation: conceptual and methodological challenges Theme F: Sleep, Emotion, and Motivation 33. The role of sleep in processing emotional information 34. Sleep and emotions: on sleep, emotional memories and depression 35. Motivational processes in the regulation of sleep/wake states Theme G: Disturbed Sleep 36. The effects of sleep loss on brain functioning 37. Physiological and neurobehavioural consequences of chronic sleep restriction in rodent models 38. Imaging of the sleep disordered brain 39. Sleep impact on perception, memory, and emotion in adults and the effects of early life experience 40. Sleep and driving 41. Drug discovery and emerging treatments for sleep disorders 42. Insomnia pharmacotherapies: pharmacodynamics, strategies, new directions, and key measures in clinical trial investigations Theme H: Sleep in Aging and Disease 43. Sleep and aging: circadian influences 44. Sleep, physical activity, and cognitive health in older adults 45. Sleep in normal aging, Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment 46. Sleep in major depression 47. Closing the loop between circadian rhythms, sleep and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder 48. Dissecting brain circuitry for sleep disorder narcolepsy in murine models 49. Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder: Pathological neural circuits and association with Parkinson's Disease

Reviews

Everyone is fascinated by sleep yet we do not understand its real contribution to our lives. If you are really interested in what we know and what we should know about sleep, the Handbook of Sleep Research (edited by Hans Dringenberg), is your source. It is a comprehensive volume covering wide range of topics from sleep in sea mammals to humans, from the contribution of sleep in memory to brain homeostasis. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field. This volume should be on the shelf of all sleep researchers and, in fact, many neuroscientists interested in the default state of the brain. -- Gyoergy Buzsaki, M.D., Ph.D. Biggs Professor of Neurocience, New York University, Langone Medical Center (author of the Rhythms of the Brain; The Brain from Inside Out).

Author Information

Dr. Dringenberg is professor in the Department of Psychology and the Centre for Neuroscience Studies at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He took up his position at Queen’s after completing a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of Physiological Psychology, University of Duesseldorf, Germany. Over the last 20 years, research in Dr. Dringenberg’s Neuroplasticity Laboratory has examined the role of various sleep-wake-related neuromodulators in controlling the electrical activity and synaptic plasticity of the neocortex and hippocampus in animal models. Recently, his lab has expanded its focus to also investigate the role of sleep and waking states in memory consolidation in humans. Dr. Dringenberg’s work has been funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); he is the author of more than 80 peer-reviewed publications.

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