title: [Central mechanisms of sleep-wakefulness cycle].
abstract: Brief anatomical, physiological and neurochemical basics of the regulation of wakefulness, slow wave (NREM) sleep and paradoxical (REM) sleep are regarded as representing by the end of the first decade of the second millennium.
authors.forename: V M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Koval'zon
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006801:Humans; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D051379:Mice; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D009479:Neuropeptides / Q000502:physiology*; D000068797:Orexins; D051381:Rats; D012895:Sleep, REM / Q000502:physiology*; D014851:Wakefulness / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D009479:Neuropeptides; D000068797:Orexins