ABSTRACT The relationship between sleep and behavioral changes is quite clear. There are many neuro-behavioral co-morbidities that are related to sleep. In line with the aims of translational science, pre-clinical research has been shown to have great value for psychiatric research in Brazil and worldwide, and this importance can be extended to sleep studies. Thus, the present article aimed to present a broad view of basic behavioral science, especially the research using animal models, and focused on the global research output on the subject of “sleep”, study trends and the Brazilian contribution to the field. The presented data demonstrate the increasing importance of Brazilian research to the field of sleep research, the Brazilian contribution to the worldwide knowledge of this subject and the adequacy of this theme to knowledge formation in the country, which is growing both in volume and publication relevance.
Pires et al. (Wed,) studied this question.