Handbook of Behavioral State Control: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms provides the first synthesis of information on the neurobiology of behavioral states, ranging from normal stress and sleep deprivation to debilitating neuropsychiatric disorders. This book presents a working reference on the cellular and molecular mechanisms generating arousal states, pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods of behavioral state control, and the bi-directional interaction between arousal state and the neurobiology of pain, and between sleep and the immune system. TOC:Mammalian Circadian (24 Hr) Rhythms.- Daily Alterations in Arousal State: Sleep.- Neuroanatomical and Neurochemical Basis of Behavioral States.- Cellular and Network Mechanisms of Behavioral State Control.- Molecules Modulating Mental States.- State-Dependent Processing Somatosensory Pathways.- Pain and Anesthesia.- Immunological Alterations in Arousal States.