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Sleep

Known as: Sleeping, sleeps 
Any process in which an organism enters and maintains a periodic, readily reversible state of reduced awareness and metabolic activity. Usually… 
National Institutes of Health

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BehaviorBrain StemBruxismCentral Nervous System

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DyssomniasSleep DisordersSleep TalkingSleep, REM

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wakefulness and sleep

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Review
2011
Review
2011
Sleep duration predicts cardiovascular outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies.
Aims To assess the relationship between duration of sleep and morbidity and mortality from coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Self-Reported and Measured Sleep Duration: How Similar Are They?
Background: Recent epidemiologic studies have found that self-reported duration of sleep is associated with obesity, diabetes… 
Review
2005
Review
2005
Sleep-dependent memory consolidation
The concept of ‘sleeping on a problem’ is familiar to most of us. But with myriad stages of sleep, forms of memory and processes… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Mortality associated with sleep duration and insomnia.
BACKGROUND Patients often complain about insufficient sleep or chronic insomnia in the belief that they need 8 hours of sleep… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
Neurobiology of Depression
Review
1999
Review
1999
EEG alpha and theta oscillations reflect cognitive and memory performance: a review and analysis
  • W. Klimesch
  • Brain Research Reviews
  • 1999
  • Corpus ID: 36688347
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Improved microbial gene identification with GLIMMER.
The GLIMMER system for microbial gene identification finds approximately 97-98% of all genes in a genome when compared with… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Ways of seeing
A History of Scientific Thought: Elements of a History of Science.Edited by Michel Serres. Blackwell: 1995. Pp. 760. £75, $100. 
Review
1993
Review
1993
Thalamocortical oscillations in the sleeping and aroused brain.
Sleep is characterized by synchronized events in billions of synaptically coupled neurons in thalamocortical systems. The… 
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
The hippocampus as a spatial map. Preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat.
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