“…Several symptoms of slow wave sleep are mediated by increased local availability of serotonin, and those of REM sleep by increased local availability of acetylcholine Jouvet & Matsunioto, 1964;MacCarley & Hobson (review), 1971 ;Torda, 1967Torda, , 1968aTorda, ,b, 1969Verzeano et al, 1975). 5-HT exerts its effects partially: (a) through inhibition of both the release fiom presynaptic storage vesicles and the effectiveness at the receptors of acetylcholine (Torda, 1978a(Torda, ,b, 1979c and (b) changes of membrane excitability through direct or indirect (Woolley & Gommi, 1963) modification of the Ca-gating mechanism (Torda, 1978b(Torda, ,c,d, 1979a.…”