Medical Hypotheses
Volume 55, Issue 5 , Pages 404-407 , November 2000

Rapid-eye-movement sleep involves the memory-conversion circuits in a brain model

Received 25 October 1999 ,Accepted 6 January 2000.

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doi: 10.1054/mehy.2000.1076

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 55, Issue 5 , Pages 404-407 , November 2000

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