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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… Expand
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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… Expand
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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… Expand
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… Expand
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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… Expand
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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… Expand
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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
Evidence is presented that EEG oscillations in the alpha and theta band reflect cognitive and memory performance in particular… Expand
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… Expand
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Short and long sleep and sleeping pills. Is increased mortality associated?
Prospective epidemiologic data of the American Cancer Society disclosed that reported usual sleep durations among groups who… Expand
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
The hippocampus as a spatial map. Preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat.
Rats with hippocampal damage are reported to be hyperactive in novel environments, 'perseverative' and resistant to extinction on… Expand
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Highly Cited
1957
Highly Cited
1957
Cyclic variations in EEG during sleep and their relation to eye movements, body motility, and dreaming.
Abstract In 33 adults, discrete periods of rapid eye movement potentials were recorded without exception during each of 126… Expand
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