The function of 'brain waves': a cybernetic model of electroencephalography.
Electroencephalograms recorded from sleeping subjects are reinterpreted, from first principles, to explain the relationship between the observed wave-forms and cerebral processes. The manifestations of narcolepsy, namely, sleep paralysis, hypnopompic hallucinations and cataplexy are consistent with a hypothesis that the disorder is the result of entrainment of cerebral waves, causing almost instantaneous descent into a REM sleep state.
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D002385:Cataplexy / Q000175:diagnosis; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods*; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009290:Narcolepsy / Q000175:diagnosis; D012890:Sleep; D020188:Sleep Paralysis