Sleep as a problem of localization
Sleep as a problem of localization
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DOI:
10.1097/00005053-193003000-00001
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发表时间:
1930-01-01
影响因子:
1.9
通讯作者:
Economo, CV
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Economo, CV
The search for a so-called sleep center may at first sight appear a paraloxical idea. In the sanne manner as the waking state, so also does sleep appear as such a complex biological condition that the problem makes us at first sit up and take notice. Indeed, our entire life takes place in the alternating change of two biological conditions, the waking and sleeping state and in this way the problem nnight appear primarily of the same category as the problem of the center of life itself. The problenn of a center of life in the nervous system has often been discussed in past centuries. But it has been put away as life is a much too complex condition as to be localized. So is sleep, too. But the change of sleep and waking state might, anyhow, have something to do with some special centers of the nervous system and that question has always been discussed over again. If we do not give to the word “center” a too narrow definition but if we agree that the expression “nervous center" signifies only such an accumulation of nervous grey matter the action of which is of direct primary importance for the production of a definite function, we might nowadays again discuss the possibility of locating sleep regu-lation in some definite part of the nervous system since we know that even so complicated a biological function as the temperature of our body has got a very definite and localized regulating center in the diencephalon.