Wakefulness Is Maintained by the Ascending Arousal System with Several

question 20

Essay

Wakefulness is maintained by the ascending arousal system with several pathways. Sleep is regulated by sleep-active neurons. An animal should not be both asleep and awake and your textbook compares this alternation between sleep and wake to central pattern generating circuits that control locomotion. Draw a basic circuit, from the perspective of pattern-generating circuits, and outline how sleep and wake regulate each other's activity, including the neurotransmitters they use.

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