Existence of a mutal tonic inhibitory interaction between the preoptic hypnogenic structure and the midbrain reticular formation.
D000818:Animals; D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002415:Cats; D003655:Decerebrate State; D007031:Hypothalamus / Q000502:physiology*; D008636:Mesencephalon / Q000502:physiology*; D009433:Neural Inhibition; D011301:Preoptic Area / Q000502:physiology*; D012154:Reticular Formation / Q000502:physiology*; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology