Neurophysiology of the States of Sleep
Michel Jouvet
Physiological Reviews 47 (2) pp : 117-177 (1967)
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Definitions and Abbreviations

State of Sleep Characterized by Slow Cortical Activity Slow Sleep

Behavioral aspect

Electrophysiological aspect

Structures and mechanisms responsible for slow sleep

State of Sleep Characterized by Fast Cortical Activity-Paradoxical Sleep

Behavioral aspects

Electrophysiological aspects

Structures and mechanisms responsible for paradoxical sleep

A synthesis of paradoxical sleep mechanisms

Relationship with oneiric activity in man

Phylogenesis of the States of Sleep

Ontogenesis of the States of Sleep

Relationship Between Slow Sleep and Paradoxical Sleep Unicity or Duality of Sleep Mechanisms

A Possible Monoaminergic Theory of Sleep

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Fig. 2. Phasic EEG activity during paradoxical sleep

The 3 tracings are continuous (each line represents 2 min).

A slow sleep with slow cortical activity, occipItal. cortex (2), and with isolated PGO activity, monophasic spikes at right (3) and left (4) lateral geniculate bodies.

B beginning of PS PG0 activity occurs permanently 60 sec before disappearance of EMG activity of the neck (1).

C PS increase in the bursts of monophasic spikes whereupon there is a fast cortical activity with occipItal. spikes. Scale 6 sec, 50 microv.