Telencephalic and rhombencephalic sleep in the cat
Jouvet M.
The Nature of Sleep Ciba Foundation Symposium Churchill (1961)
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Materials and methods

Results

Topography of the systems responsible for the two stages of sleep

Mechanisms of the rhombencephalic phase of sleep

Conclusions

Discussion

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Figure 6

Arousal (A) and rhombencephalic sleep (B) in cat X2.

Note the rhythmic activity in the subcortical activity and the spindle-like activity in the nucleus pontis caudalis (F.R.P.C.), the slowing of E.K.G., acceleration of respiration (R) and the total disappearance of the E.M.G. activity of the neck muscles.

FRM.=Posterior mesencephalic reticular formation.

F.R.P.O.=Nucleus pontis oralis.

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