Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: The function of sleep remains one of the greatest unsolved questions in biology.Schmidt[64] has proposed the unifying Energy Allocation Function of sleep, which posits that the ultimate function of sleep is eective energy allocation in the service of state-dependent division of labor, or repartitioning of metabolic operations.We present a mathematical model based on Schmidt's Energy Allocation model.The fundamental quantity we model is called biological debt (D).We dene biological requirements (R) as the summation of maintenance obligations generated by all metabolic operations, biological investment (I ) as the summation of completed functions servicing this requirements, and D as the dierence (D = R-I).We model I would like to thank my parents, Ted and April Swang.Thank you for your boundless love, your generous encouragement, and your fast support.
Author: Theodore W. Swang
Institution: The Ohio State University
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2727897995