Sleep and brain plasticity

Foreword Introduction SECTION 1: HUMAN BEHAVIOUR 1. Memory, cognition, and dreams 2. Human studies of sleep and off-line memory reprocessing 3. Roles of early and late nocturnal sleep for the consolidation of human memories 4. A role for stage 2 sleep in memory processing SECTION 2: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR 5. Expression and modulation of memory traces during paradoxical sleep 6. The REM sleep window and memory processing 7. Activation of phasic pontine wave (P-wave): a mechanism of learning and memory processing 8. The role of sleep in memory processing: the sequential hypothesis SECTION 3: SLEEP AND NEURAL DEVELOPMENT 9. Role of REM sleep in brain development and plasticity 10. The role of sleep in the development of central visual pathways SECTION 4: SYSTEMS LEVEL 11. Cerebral correlates of memory consolidation during human sleep: contribution of functional neuroimaging 12. Off-line reprocessing of recent memory and its role in memory consolidation: a progress report 13. Maintenance and modification of firing rates and sequences in the hippocampus: does sleep play a role? 14. Neuronal plasticity during sleep oscillations in corticothalamic systems SECTION 5: CELLULAR LEVEL 15. Molecular mechanisms of memory consolidation 16. Recent evidence of memory processing in sleep 17. Sleep modulation of the expression of plasticity markers