| Functional Anatomy of the Sleep-Wakefulness Cycle: Wakefulness | 3 |
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| Acknowledgment | 5 |
| Abstract | 7 |
| List of Contents | 9 |
| Abbreviations | 11 |
| Chapter 1: The Sleep-Wakefulness Cycle | 13 |
| Chapter 2: Revision of the Publications Describing the Anatomical Connections and Effects of Lesions and Electrical Stimulationof Brain Structures on the Sleep Wakefulness Cycle | 17 |
| 2.1 The Peripheral Nerves and Spinal Cord | 20 |
| 2.2 Medullary and Caudal Pontine Tegmentum | 23 |
| 2.3 Oral Pontine Tegmentum and Superior Cerebellar Peduncle | 32 |
| 2.4 Midbrain Tegmentum, Hypothalamus, and Basal Forebrain | 44 |
| 2.5 Thalamus | 55 |
| 2.6 Cerebral Cortex | 68 |
| 2.7 Final Commentary | 72 |
| Chapter 3: Functional Anatomy of Wakefulness | 74 |
| 3.1 The Brainstem-Hypothalamic Wakefulness Structures and Their Neurotransmitters | 75 |
| 3.1.1 The Dorsal Mesopontine Tegmentum | 76 |
| 3.1.2 The Midbrain Tegmentum | 83 |
| 3.1.3 The Posterior Lateral Hypothalamus | 85 |
| 3.2 Other Brain Structures with Their Neurotransmitters That Participate in Wakefulness | 98 |
| 3.2.1 Anterior Hypothalamic and Basal Forebrain Regions | 98 |
| 3.2.2 Thalamus and Cerebral Cortex | 100 |
| 3.2.3 The ``Thalamo-Cortical Unit´´ | 115 |
| 3.3 Final Commentary | 119 |
| References | 121 |
| Subject Index | 139 |