Sleep: Keeping One Eye Open

Dara S Manoach; Robert Stickgold

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.041

Sleep: Keeping One Eye Open

Curr Biol. 2016 May 9;26(9):R360-1. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.041.

Authors

Dara S Manoach¹, Robert Stickgold²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA. Electronic address: dara@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu.
² Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.

PMID: 27166693
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.041

Abstract

Unihemispheric sleep, during which one half of the brain sleeps while the other half remains awake, is seen in some aquatic mammals and birds, particularly in risky situations. It now appears that humans sleeping in unfamiliar environments do something quite similar.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Aquatic Organisms*
Birds / physiology*
Brain / physiology
Electroencephalography
Functional Laterality / physiology*
Humans
Mammals / physiology*
Sleep / physiology*
Wakefulness

Grants and funding

R01 MH048832/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States