Sleep and brain activity / edited by Marcos G. Frank.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Neuronal oscillations in the thalamocortical system during sleeping and waking states / Igor Timofeev -- Corticothalamic rhythms during states of reduced vigilance / Vincenzo Crunelli and Stuart Hughes -- Glial modulation of sleep and electroencephalographic rhythms / Marcos G. Frank -- Genetic mechanisms underlying rhythmic EEG activity during sleep / Paul Franken -- Evoked electrophysiological and vascular responses across sleep / David M. Rector -- Sleep and learning in birds : Rats! There's more to sleep / Daniel Margoliash and Timothy P. Brawn -- Phasic pontine-wave (P-wave) generation : cellular-molecular-network mechanism and functional significance / Subimal Datta -- Neural correlates of human sleep and sleep-dependent memory processing / Christelle Meyer, Vincenzo Muto [and others] -- Sleep EEG rhythms and system consolidation of memory / Gordon B. Feld and Han Born -- Sleep slow oscillations and cortical maturation . Salomé Kurth and Reto Huber.

In the last few decades, scientists have discovered that far from being a time of neural silence, sleep is characterized by complex patterns of electrical, neurochemical, and metabolic activity in the brain. Sleep and the Brain presents some of the more dramatic developments in our understanding of brain activity in sleep. The book discusses what parts of the brain are active in sleep and how, and presents research on the function of sleep in memory, learning, and further brain development. Coverage encompasses the network and membrane mechanisms responsible for waking and sleeping brain activity, the roles of glial cells in the sleeping brain, the molecular basis of sleep EEG rhythms, adn research on songbirds, rodents, and humans indicating the function of sleep.