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Stages of Sleep
The invention of the electroencephalograph allowed scientists to study sleep in ways that were not previously possible. During the 1950s, a gradate student named Eugene Aserinsky used this tool to discover what is known today as REM sleep. Further studies of human sleep have demonstrated that sleep progresses through a series of stages in which [...]
A Brief History of Sleep Research
A BRIEF HISTORY OF SLEEP RESEARCH Updated February 3, 1999 Pieron, Kleitman and Aserinsky In 1913, French Scientist Henri Pieron authored a book entitled “Le probleme physiologique du sommeil,” which was the first text to examine sleep from a physiological perspective. This work is usually regarded as the beginning of the modern approach to sleep [...]