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This work was supported by awards from the Department of Veterans Affairs, Medical Research Service and NIMH (R37 MH39,683, R01 MH62522, and R01 MH40,799). Portions of this chapter are adapted from McCarley RW et al. Brain stem neuromodulation and REM sleep. Sem. Neurosci. 1995;7:341–354; McCarley RW. Neurophysiology of sleep: Basic mechanisms underlying control of wakefulness and sleep. In: Chokroverty S, ed. Sleep Disorders Medicine, 2nd edition. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999, pp. 21–50; McCarley RW. Human electrophysiology: cellular mechanisms and control of wakefulness and sleep. In: Yudofsky S and Hales RE, eds. Handbook of Neuropsychiatry, Fourth edition. New York: American Psychiatric Press, 2001; Steriade M and McCarley RW, Brain Control of Wakefulness and Sleep. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2005; McCarley RW. Neurobiology of REM and NREM sleep. Sleep Med. 2007;8(4):302–330.
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McCarley, R.W. (2008). Sleep, Dreams, and States of Consciousness. In: Conn, P.M. (eds) Neuroscience in Medicine. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-455-5_39
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