TY - JOUR
AU - Iguchi, Taisen
AB - © 2000 Nature America Inc. • http://medicine.nature.com BOOK REVIEW creative theory of why we sleep and pecially REM) has long been thought to continually synthesized receptors that dream. consolidate learning, and there is a fair were “validated” by PGO information. According to Jouvet, sleep—and par- amount of evidence in favor of this hy- How the brain decides which synapses ticularly paradoxical sleep—fosters ge- pothesis. In Jouvet’s hands, the repro- to strengthen and which to weaken by netic reprogramming that guarantees gramming idea even echoes the such a process is not made clear. And, as psychological individuality. Sleep guar- provocative idea, first put forward by with so many seductive behavioral and antees psychological individuality? David Hartley in 1804, that sleep can psychological hypotheses of sleep func- Now, that’s a bold and original idea. In also promote unlearning, by the loosen- tion, an experimental program for test- developing his thesis, Jouvet recounts a ing of ‘overlearned’ associations. Thus, ing this one is not easy to specify. So, rich wealth of data, concepts and expe- we sleep to forget (as well as to beyond asserting that we need a mouse riences in a lively and readable way. He remember). model for sleep 
TI - Hormonal Chaos: The Scientific and Social Origins of the Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis
JF - Nature Medicine
DO - 10.1038/73073
DA - 2000-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/hormonal-chaos-the-scientific-and-social-origins-of-the-environmental-cnZu08gf4p
SP - 246
EP - 247
VL - 6
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -