Awake or Sleeping? Maybe Both… A Review of Sleep-Related Dissociative States.
Journal of Clinical Medicine June 6, 2023 Maria Eduarda Sodré, Isabel Wießner, Muna Irfan et al. 15 citations
Recent studies have begun to understand sleep not only as a whole-brain process but also as a complex local phenomenon controlled by specific neurotransmitters that act in different neural networks, which is called "local sleep". Moreover, the basic states of human consciousness-wakefulness, sleep onset (N1), light sleep (N2), deep sleep (N3), and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep-can concurrently...