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Nielsen's concept of covert REM sleep is a path toward a more realistic view of sleep psychophysiology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2001

Edward F. Pace-Schott
Edward F. Pace-Schott
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 edward-schott@hms.harvard.edu
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Abstract

Nielsen's concept of “covert REM sleep” accounts for more of the complexity in sleep psychophysiology than its conceptual predecessors such as the tonic-phasic model. With new neuroimaging findings, such concepts lead to more precise sleep psychophysiology including both traditional polysomnographic signs and neuronal activity in greater proximity to the actual point sources and distributed networks which generate dreaming.

[Hobson et al.; Nielsen]

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 6 , December 2000 , pp. 983 - 984
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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