Part I. The Neurochemistry of the States of Sleep and Wakefulness: 1.
Neurochemistry of the preoptic hypothalamic hypnogenic mechanism Dennis
McGinty, Md. Noor Alam, Hui Gong, Melvi Methippara, Natalia Suntsova, Ruben
Guzman-Marin and Ronald Szymusiak; 2. Neuroanatomical and neurochemical
basis of wakefulness and REM sleep systems Ritchie E. Brown and Robert W.
McCarley; 3. Rapid eye movement sleep regulation by modulation of the
noradrenergic system Birendra N. Mallick, Vibha Madan and Sushil K. Jha;
Part II. The Influence of Neurotransmitters on Sleep and Wakefulness: 4.
Gamma-aminobutyric acid and the regulation of paradoxical, or rapid eye
movement sleep Pierre-Hervé Luppi, Damien Gervasoni, Laure Verret, Romain
Goutagny, Christelle Peyron, Denise Salvert, Lucienne Leger and Patrice
Fort; 5. Acetylcholine modulates sleep and wakefulness: a synaptic
perspective Ralph Lydic and Helen A. Baghdoyan; 6. Histamine in the control
of sleep-wakefulness Mahesh M. Thakkar and Robert W. McCarley; 7. Dopamine
in behavioral state control David B. Rye and Amanda A. H. Freeman; 8.
Glutamate neurotransmission and sleep Irwin Feinberg and Ian G. Campbell;
9. Serotonin and sleep/wake regulation Jaime M Monti, Héctor Jantos and
Daniel Monti; Part III. Changing Perspectives: 10. Melatonin and its
receptors: biological function in circadian sleep/wake regulation Daniel P.
Cardinali, S. R. Pandi-Perumal and Lennard P. Niles; 11. Sleep regulatory
factors Levente Kapás and Éva Szentirmai; 12. Adenosine and sleep/wake
regulation Dag Stenberg and Tarja Porkka-Heiskanen; 13. Prostaglandins and
the regulation of sleep and wakefulness Osamu Hayaishi and Yoshihiro Urade;
14. Neuropeptides and sleep/wake regulation Luis de Lecea; 15. Orexins in
sleep and wakefulness: rodent models of narcolepsy-cataplexy Christopher M.
Sinton and Jon T. Willie; 16. The relevance of experimental pharmacology to
currently available sleep/wake therapeutics Rafael J. Salin-Pascual.
