The case of the sleeping slayer.

• Autores: James Vlahos
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 307, Nº. 3, 2012, págs. 48-53
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses how the awake-asleep distinction is not binary and how researchers identify several neurological and biological processes occurring in a continuum between sleep and wakefulness. Topics include lethal and non-lethal sleep crimes and how the partial-sleep hypothesis suggests that certain regions of the brain may be in a sleep state while the person appears to be awake. Additional information is presented on partial-sleep evidence in mammals and the non-existence of a centralized sleep command region in the brain.