Masui. The Japanese journal of anesthesiology
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We described how modern neuroscience has elucidated what is sleep and its implication, and also reviewed histological and current trends in search of sleep mechanism from view of neurocirculatory or hormonary basis studies. We conclude that anesthesia and sleep share some neuronal structure in their action and mechanism of anesthesia could be elucidated through sleep study. In addition, anesthesia-related sleep disturbance must be settled to serve satisfied quality of life of patients and to save economic and medical resources.