Neuroscience: A Distributed Neural Network Controls REM Sleep

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.

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The anatomical, cellular and synaptic basis of motor atonia during rapid eye movement sleep

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Basal forebrain control of wakefulness and cortical rhythms