The neural substrates of infant sleep in rats.

Sleep is a poorly understood behavior that predominates during infancy but is studied almost exclusively in adults. One perceived impediment to investigations of sleep early in ontogeny is the absence of state-dependent neocortical activity. Nonetheless, in infant rats, sleep is reliably characteriz...

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Main Authors: Karl A E Karlsson, Andrew J Gall, Ethan J Mohns, Adele M H Seelke, Mark S Blumberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2005-05-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1079781?pdf=render