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For the last ten years research has been performed at UCLA which has helped elucidate an early finding made in our laboratory, namely that electrical stimulation in the pre-optic basal forebrain of cats and monkeys induces the electroencephalographic and behavioral manifestations of sleep. Experimentation has revealed that the basal forebrain is part of a forebrain inhibitory system which is capable of suppressing widely throughout the body both somatic and visceral mechanisms.
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Clemente, C.D. (1970). Basal Forebrain Structures and the Electrical Induction of Sleep. In: Wulfsohn, N.L., Sances, A. (eds) The Nervous System and Electric Currents. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1836-1_22
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