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Rachel Demsey

1 paper in the library · 6 citations · publishing 2023

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Abnormal behavioral episodes associated with sleep and quiescence in Octopus insularis : Possible nightmares in a cephalopod?

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) May 12, 2023 Eric Angel Ramos, Mariam Steinblatt, Rachel Demsey et al. 6 citations preprint

ABSTRACT This paper presents some unusual behaviors observed in one single specimen of O. insularis . While nothing can be concluded rigorously from such data, we share the data and our analysis with the community, in the hope that others will be on the lookout for such rare events. Sleep is a fundamental biological function that is present in all tested vertebrates and most invertebrates....