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12 March 2019

Historical View on the Attempts to Understand the Function of Sleep in the School of Ivan Pavlov and His Russian Forerunners and Followers

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Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Kharkevich Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, B. Karetniy Side Street, 19, 127994 Moscow, Russia
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Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 127994 Moscow, Russia
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Abstract

We reviewed the ideas of Ivan Pavlov and his Russian forerunners (Ivan Tarkhanov and Maria Manaseina) and followers (Nikolai Rozjanskiy and Konstantin Bykov) on the functional role of sleep. This analysis led to the conclusion that the state of sleep is connected with functional operations that have not been considered in the past and are also not being investigated in present neuroscience. Thus, a real understanding of the function of sleep may only come with a new neurophysiological paradigm.

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