Is autonomy working under unconscious state of sleep?

Mitsuyuki Nakao; Akihiro Karashima; Norihiro Katayama

doi:10.1109/ICAwST.2013.6765452

Is autonomy working under unconscious state of sleep?

Mitsuyuki Nakao, Akihiro Karashima, Norihiro Katayama

Unprecedented-scale Data Analytics Center (UDAC)

Tohoku University

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Abstract

Conventionally sleep is understood as an unconscious state in which human and animals are taking rest physically as well as physiologically. However, sleep has been suggested to serve for development and maintenance of the higher-order brain functions as well. Actually neuronal activities show peculiar dynamics to sleep state and some neurons become rather active during sleep than wakefulness. Associated with neuronal activities, molecular and cellular machinery are found to be involved for the functions of sleep. Considering unconsciousness during sleep, neurobiological events characterizing sleep seem to be autonomously regulated. But, are they? In this essay, the neurobiological phenomena during sleep and their possible contribution to the sleep functions are reviewed. In addition, it is examined whether these neurobiological events during unconscious state of sleep are causally regulated or not.

Original language	English
Pages	304-305
Number of pages	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAwST.2013.6765452
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	2013 International Joint Conference on Awareness Science and Technology, iCAST 2013 and 6th International Conference on Ubi-Media Computing, UMEDIA 2013 - Aizuwakamatsu, Japan Duration: 2013 Nov 2 → 2013 Nov 4

Conference

Conference	2013 International Joint Conference on Awareness Science and Technology, iCAST 2013 and 6th International Conference on Ubi-Media Computing, UMEDIA 2013
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Aizuwakamatsu
Period	13/11/2 → 13/11/4

Keywords

Causality
Higher-order brain function
Learning
Memory

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Is autonomy working under unconscious state of sleep? / Nakao, Mitsuyuki; Karashima, Akihiro; Katayama, Norihiro.
2013. 304-305 Paper presented at 2013 International Joint Conference on Awareness Science and Technology, iCAST 2013 and 6th International Conference on Ubi-Media Computing, UMEDIA 2013, Aizuwakamatsu, Japan.