Exploring Phylogeny to Find the Function of Sleep

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Phylogenetic framework

The concept that sleep states emerged early in animal evolution.

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Ancestral sleep state

The belief that certain functional aspects of sleep are conserved from an ancestral sleep state.

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metabolic

Sleep may have evolved fundamentally as a ________ state of the animal and serves functions outside the nervous system.

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Sleep

_______ can be found in an animal with a mere 302 neurons and lacking overt circadian behavioral rhythms.

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brain, CNS

Jellyfish show sleep behavior, demonstrating that neither a ______ nor a ______ is required for sleep.

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Homeostatic guarding of the resting state

The observation that when a cockroach is forced to continue locomotion during its resting time, it shows an increase in subsequent immobility, suggesting:

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flies

Fruit _______ display prolonged immobility during the night, are less responsive to stimulation during their quiescent period, and display immobility during the early day following forced movement during the sleep period

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day, night

Jellyfish exhibit higher pulsation frequency during the ______, reduced responsiveness at ______, and reduced activity and responsiveness following forced movement at night.

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early

The occurrence of REM and NREM sleep in mammals, birds, and possibly reptiles, suggesting that it was present at least as ______ as when amniotes evolved over 300 million years ago.

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down, up

The understanding that brain neurons are top-________ regulators of sleep-wake states in mammals, while there is evidence of a bottom-______ organization as well.

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continuum

Sleep and wake lie on a ________.

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neurons

Sleep exists even in animals that lack _________

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