Open AccessShort-Term Homeostasis of REM Sleep Throughout a 12:12 Light:Dark Schedule in the Rat
Author(s) -
E Vivaldi,
Adrián OcampoGarcés,
Rodrigo Villegas
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
sleep
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.222
H-Index - 207
eISSN - 1550-9109
pISSN - 0161-8105
DOI - 10.1093/sleep/28.8.931
Subject(s) - wakefulness , sleep (system call) , non rapid eye movement sleep , rapid eye movement sleep , slow wave sleep , psychology , eye movement , audiology , anesthesia , medicine , neuroscience , electroencephalography , computer science , operating system
Intervals extending from the end of a rapid eye movement (REM) sleep episode until the triggering of the next tend to be longer when they follow a longer REM sleep episode. A short-term REM sleep homeostatic process has been hypothesized to explain this effect. The present study assessed and modeled the REM sleep episode-interval relationship and compared its expression at different phases of a 12:12 light: dark schedule.