Functional Anatomy of the Sleep-Wake-fulness Cycle: Wakefulness (Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology) [Soft Cover ] - Paperback

EAN (ISBN-13): 9783642146251
ISBN (ISBN-10): 3642146252
Hardcover
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Publishing year: 2010
Publisher: Springer Berlin
130 Pages
Weight: 0,318 kg
Language: eng/Englisch

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ISBN/EAN: 9783642146251

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Book author: andre miguel, suarez, andres, garz, hsu, garzon
Book title: the anatomy, cycle, advances anatomy embryology and cell biology, wake, sleep more

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Author: Fernando Reinoso-Suárez; Isabel de Andrés; Miguel Garzón
Title: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology; Functional Anatomy of the Sleep-Wakefulness Cycle: Wakefulness
Publisher: Springer; Springer Berlin
130 Pages
Publishing year: 2010-11-05
Berlin; Heidelberg; DE
Language: English
106,99 € (DE)
109,99 € (AT)
118,00 CHF (CH)
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XII, 130 p. 53 illus., 11 illus. in color.

BC; Hardcover, Softcover / Medizin/Nichtklinische Fächer; Neurowissenschaften; Verstehen; Medizin, Gesundheit; ascending reticular activating system; ascending reticular activating system; awareness; basal forebrain; cognitive process; cognitive process; coma; consciousness; dorsal mesopontine tegmentum; light period; light period; retinal stimulation; retinal stimulation; thalamo-cerebral cortex unit; thalamo-cerebral cortex unit; thalamo-cerebral cortex unity; Neuroscience; EA

Wakefulness is a necessary, active and periodic brain state, with a circadian and homeostatic regulation and precisely meshed with other states into the sleep-wakefulness cycle. This monograph first overviews the historical background and current understanding of the neuronal systems generating and/or maintaining the various phases of the sleep-wakefulness cycle. A key cellular correlate of wakefulness is a sustained mode of high activity and plasticity in the closely intertwined circuits of the cortex and thalamus, the “thalamo-cerebral cortex unity”. The second part of the monograph provides an in-depth review of recent advances on the anatomy, physiology and neurochemistry of the neuronal groups known to drive the “thalamo-cerebral cortex unity” into their wakefulness mode, and to keep them in such mode. Interestingly, these neuronal groups are located in the brainstem, hypothalamus or basal forebrain; collectively, they are known as the “ascending reticular activating system”. Neurotransmitter-specific pathways arising from these neuronal groups target the thalamus and cortex. The various neurotransmitters interact on postsynaptic cortical or thalamic cells to fine-tune their excitability and plasticity, exerting powerful influences on the perceptual and cognitive processes as well as attentional, emotional, motivational, behavioral and arousal states. In turn, corticofugal axons reach the neuronal groups of the “ascending reticular activating system”, and thus the awake “thalamo-cerebral cortex unity” is in position to modulate their activity
The authors present a detailed review and update of the structures involved in the phase of wakefulness (W), including their morphological, functional and chemical characteristics, as well as their anatomical connections