Research Catalog

Title

Sleep and the maturing nervous system. Edited by Carmine D. Clemente, Dominick P. Purpura [and] Florence E. Mayer.

Publication

New York, Academic Press, 1972.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Clemente, Carmine D.
• Purpura, Dominick P.
• Mayer, Florence E.

Description

xviii, 470 pages illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Sleep > Congresses
• Developmental neurobiology > Congresses
• Sleep
• Brain > Physiology
• Brain > Physiology
• Developmental neurobiology
• Sleep
• Slaap
• Zenuwstelsel
• Brain
• Conferences
• Nervous system
• Neurology
• Brain > growth & development
• Brain > physiology

Genre/Form

• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.
• Congress

Note

• Based on a symposium entitled The maturation of brain mechanisms related to sleep behavior, held at Boiling Springs, Pa., June 21-24, 1970, and sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

Preface / Carmine D. Clemente, Dominick P. Purpura, Florence E. Mayer -- Part I. The Maturation of Neural Elements -- Principles of Synaptogenesis and Their Application to Ontogenetic Studies of Mammalian Cerebral Cortex / Dominick P. Purpura, Robert J. Shofer -- The Development of Synapses in the Rat Cerebellar Cortex / Barry J. Hoffer [and others] -- Maturing Neuronal Subsystems : The Dendrites of Spinal Motoneurons / Madge E. Scheibel, Arnold B. Scheibel -- Part II. Neurochemical Factors in the Maturation of Sleep Behavior -- Coordination between Excitation and Inhibition : Development of the GABA System / Eugene Roberts -- Contributions of Differential Housing to Brain Development : Some Implications for Sleep Behavior / Walter B. Essman -- The Role of Biogenic Amines in Sleep / Oscar Resnick -- Developmental Changes in Neurochemistry during the Maturation of Sleep Behavior / Williamina A. Himwich -- Maturation of Neurobiochemical Systems Related to the Ontogeny of Sleep Behavior / Peter J. Morgane -- Part III. Development of EEG and Activity Patterns in Relation to Sleep -- Development of Wakefulness-Sleep Cycles and Associated EEG Patterns in Mammals / Robert J. Ellingson -- The Basic Rest-Activity Cycle and Sleep : Developmental Considerations in Man and Cats / M.B. Sterman -- Development of States in Infants / Arthur H. Parmelee Jr., Evelyn Stern -- Part IV. Development of Reflex Patterns in Sleep -- The Somatosensory Cerebral Evoked Potentials of the Sleeping Human Newborn / John E. Desmedt, J. Debecker -- Patterns of Reflex Excitability during the Ontogenesis of Sleep and Wakefulness / Michael H. Chase -- Patterns of Reflex Behavior Related to Sleep in the Human Infant / H.F.R. Prechtl -- Part V. Developmental Aspects of Normal and Abnormal Sleep Behavior -- Sleep Deprivation and the Organization of the Behavioral States / William C. Dement -- Development of Sleep Patterns in Autistic Children / Edward M. Ornitz -- Sleep in Mental Retardation / Olga Petre-Quadens -- Maternal Toxemia, Fetal Malnutrition, and Bioelectric Brain Activity of the Newborn / F.J. Schulte, Gabriele Hinze, Gerlind Schrempf -- Summary and Concluding Remarks / Donald B. Lindsley.

ISBN

• 0121762505
• 9780121762506

LCCN

72084277

OCLC

• ocm00482714
• 482714
• SCSB-273302

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library