title: [Mechanisms of dream-sleep-wakefulness cycle].
abstract: For the occurrence of each state of sleep (slow wave sleep, paradoxical sleep) there are two neuronal networks. The first one called executive is responsible for the sleep phenomenology; the second called permissive is for the triggering of sleep. Wakefulness depends on a very complex system (10 structures) including the permissive networks which inhibit sleep. Sleep onset is thought as a blockade of the waking state by an antiwake network synthesizing hypnogenic factors. Such a regulation allows to suggest that insomnia is a wake trouble depending on a revisited therapy.
authors.affiliation: INSERM U52, Université Claude-Bernard, Lyon.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Valatx
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D004325:Dreams / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009474:Neurons / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D012894:Sleep Stages / Q000502:physiology*; D012895:Sleep, REM / Q000502:physiology; D014851:Wakefulness / Q000502:physiology*