Neural and behavioral organization of rapid eye movement sleep in zebrafish
Vikash Choudhary, Charles R. Heller, Sophie Aimon, Lílian de Sardenberg Schmid, Drew N. Robson, Jennifer M. Li · FENS Forum 2024
Sleep’s ubiquitous presence across the animal kingdom underscores its crucial role in an organism’s cognitive, emotional, and physiological function. In mammals, sleep is subdivided into two distinct substates: Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep and Non-rapid Eye Movement (NREM) sleep. NREM sleep is marked by synchronized brain activity and muscle tone loss, while REM sleep is characterized by desynchronized brain activity, muscle atonia, and bursts of eye movements. Nevertheless, the definition of sleep varies across species making the evolutionary origin of distinct sleep states unclear. In orga
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