title: Neuroscience: A Distributed Neural Network Controls REM Sleep.
abstract: How does the brain control dreams? New science shows that a small node of cells in the medulla - the most primitive part of the brain - may function to control REM sleep, the brain state that underlies dreaming.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Cell and Systems Biology and Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G5, Canada. Electronic address: john.peever@utoronto.ca.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Peever
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA. Electronic address: pfuller@bidmc.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Patrick M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Fuller
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D059330:GABAergic Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D008526:Medulla Oblongata / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology*; D012895:Sleep, REM / Q000502:physiology*