“Struggle” between three switching mechanisms as the underpinning of sleep stages and the pattern of transition between them

Editorial on the special issue on brain physiology meets complex systems

“…Yakunina et al. [ 12 ] studied the transitions between different stages of sleep to suggest objective markers of interactions between underlying on–off switching mechanisms. The authors consider the transitions between stages of the sleep cycle as a sequence of episodes of the “struggle” between three permanently competing mechanisms.…”