title: Sleep embodies maximum and minimum levels of autonomic integration.
abstract: This review is based on the Valsalva lecture delivered by Professor Elio Lugaresi at the first meeting on the European Federation of Autonomic Societies, held in conjunction with the Italian Autonomic Society in Bologna in July 1999.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Clinical Neurology, University of Bologna, Italy. elugares@neuro.unibo.it
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lugaresi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Provini
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cortelli
mesh_terms: D001341:Autonomic Nervous System / Q000502:physiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation / Q000502:physiology; D003221:Confusion; D006801:Humans; D012867:Skin / Q000294:innervation; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D007319:Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D013564:Sympathetic Nervous System / Q000502:physiology; D014851:Wakefulness / Q000502:physiology