Somatic and Autonomic Regulation in Sleep

This volume contains the contributions to a course entitled "Sleep and its Pathology", which was organized by the Advanced School of the Italian Neuro­ science Society at the "Alessandro Volta" Center of Scientific Culture (Villa Olmo, Como, Italy, May 9-10,1996). The course was aimed at informing the medical audience about recent deve­ lopments in the field with particular regard to the work of the sleep laboratories of the University of Bologna. The first part of this book presents experimenta