CONTENTS Preface xiii Introduction: Sleeping Brains, Conscious Minds xv Jennifer M. Windt PART I: THE BIOLOGY OF SLEEP AND DREAMING 1 Chapter 1 Sleep: Evolution, Regulation, and Function 3 Evolutionary Perspectives on Sleep 3 John Lesku, Anne Aulsebrook, and Erika Zaid Regulation of Sleep 16 Henna-Kaisa Wigren and Tarja Porkka-Heiskanen Human Sleep Architecture 24 Mary A. Carskadon and Scott Coussens Genetic Basis of Human Sleep 32 Tiina Paunio The Function of Sleep 42 Lukas B. Krone and Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy Chapter 2 The Neuroscience of Dreaming 55 Electroencephalographic Correlates of Dreaming 55 Alejandro Ezquerro-Nassar and Valdas Noreika Neuroimaging Studies of Dreaming 63 Dylan Smith, Umberto Moretto, and Thien Thanh Dang-Vu Neurochemistry of Dreaming 71 Brenda L. Bressler and Edward F. Pace-Schott
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