The Auditory System in Sleep

Presents, for the first time, the brain during sleep associated to the auditory sensory input.

Ricardo Velluti (Author)

9780123738905, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 17 December 2007

224 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2 cm, 0.45 kg

The Auditory System in Sleep presents for the first time a view of a sensory system working in a different state-that of the sleeping brain. The auditory system is always “open? receiving information from the environment and the body itself (conscious and unconscious data). Even during sleep the auditory information is processed, although in a different way. This book draws information from evoked potentials, fMRI, PET, SPECT, lesions, etc., together with electrophysiological online data in order to depict how the auditory system single unit activity, recorded during sleep, revealed the possibility of sensory information participation in sleep processes.

1. General Introduction
2. Auditory System Organization and its Physiologic Basis
3. Physiologic Basis of Sleep
4. Information Precessing
5. Auditory Information Processing during Sleep
6. Auditory Influences on Sleep
7. Conclusions

Subject Areas: Neurosciences [PSAN], Sleep disorders & therapy [MMZS], Neurology & clinical neurophysiology [MJN], Physiology [MFG], Cognitive science [GTR]