Sleep Onset

In an effort to refine prevailing concepts about the crucial wake- sleep transition, a cross-disciplinary group of authors covers general and theoretical concerns as well as predictive models and behavioral, cognitive, subjective, and electroencephalographic changes. Psychologists focus on the behavioral aspects and the consequences of intrusive sleep onset; authors in other disciplines focus on underlying processes, such as the timing and rate of change of electrophysiological, neurophysiological, endocrinological, and metabolic variables, and neurophysiological substrates such as muscle tone suppression and cerebral oscillations. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR