英語翻譯
"Fundamentally there are many more similarities than differences between rat and human sleep.Most of the basic phenomena-physical twitching,changes in cortical activity,REM movements,and many others are similar.Infant rats are also similar to human babies in the way that they rapidly cycle in and out of sleep.In both species,these cycles become longer as we age," Blumberg said.
"Every parent is aware of their infant's tendencies to rapidly go back and forth between sleep and wakefulness or to sleep all day.That's what we see in rats.So why does sleep change developmentally and become more scheduled and regulated so that we sleep through the night?What's changing here?[We're trying] to understand the basic features of the brain that regulate sleep,and then understand how sleeping cycles change with age," he said.