chapter 1 Sleep and Neuronal Plasticity: Cellular Mechanisms of Corticothalamic Oscillations -- chapter 2 Role of Basalo-Cortical System in Modulating Cortical Activity and Sleep-Wake States -- chapter 3 In Vitro Identification of the Presumed Sleep-Promoting Neurons of the Ventrolateral Preoptic Nucleus (VLPO) -- chapter 4 Molecular Mechanisms of Sleep-Wake Regulation: A Role of Prostaglandin D2 and Adenosine -- chapter 5 The Network Responsible for Paradoxical Sleep Onset and Maintenance: A New Theory Based on the Head-Restrained Rat Model -- chapter 6 Reverse Genetics and the Study of Sleep-Wake Cycle: The Hypocretins and Cortistain -- chapter 7 Genetic Regulation of Sleep -- chapter 8 Searching for Sleep Mutants of Drosophila Melanogaster -- chapter 9 Sleep Phylogeny: Clues to the Evolution and Function of Sleep -- chapter 10 Sleep, Synaptic Plasticity, and the Developing Brain -- chapter 11 Changes in Brain Gene Expression between Sleep and Wakefulness -- chapter 12 Neuronal Reverberation and the Consolidation of New Memories across the Wake-Sleep Cycle -- chapter 13 Cerebral Functional Segregation and Integration during Human Sleep.