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  • Title: [Insomnia following a lesion of the paramedial preoptic area is reversible by inactivation of the posterior hypothalamus in the cat].
    Author: Sallanon M, Aubert C, Denoyer M, Kitahama K, Jouvet M.
    Journal: C R Acad Sci III; 1987; 305(14):561-7. PubMed ID: 3121144.
    Abstract:
    The bilateral intratissular injection of muscimol, an agonist of gamma amino butyric acid (GABA), induced a transient hypersomnia (slow wave sleep and paradoxical sleep) in an insomniac cat whose paramedial preoptic area had been previously bilaterally destroyed.
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