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A LIFE DEVOTED TO SLEEP SCIENCE: ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF MICHEL JOUVET
- Authors: Kovalzon V.M.1
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- A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: Vol 61, No 5-6 (2025)
- Pages: 294-299
- Section: REVIEWS
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0044-4529/article/view/374143
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7868/S3034552925050032
- ID: 374143
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Abstract
This article was written to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Michel Jouvet (1925–2017), a leading French neurophysiologist and somnologist. It briefly examines Jouvet’s biography, as well as the history of the discovery of paradoxical sleep, its phylogeny and ontogeny, as well as the study of the neural and neurotransmitter systems of the brain involved in regulating the sleep-wake cycle.
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V. M. Kovalzon
A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: kovalzon@sevin.ru
Moscow
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