Mammalian sleep dynamics: how diverse features arise from a common physiological framework.

Mammalian sleep varies widely, ranging from frequent napping in rodents to consolidated blocks in primates and unihemispheric sleep in cetaceans. In humans, rats, mice and cats, sleep patterns are orchestrated by homeostatic and circadian drives to the sleep-wake switch, but it is not known whether...

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Main Authors: Andrew J K Phillips, Peter A Robinson, David J Kedziora, Romesh G Abeysuriya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-06-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2891699?pdf=render