Article: The promise of sleep research. (World Trends & Forecasts: Health)

Article: Nathaniel Kleitman; helped pioneer REM sleep ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  August 20, 1999 ;     663 words ... ... began the modern era of sleep research. Mr. Kleitman and ... University of Chicago Sleep Research Laboratory. "It showed ... stages. REM and non-REM sleep are as different from ... rest of us involved in sleep research, millions of lives ...

Transcript: Profile: REM sleep
NPR Morning Edition;  October 2, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... this report on how REM changed sleep research and his life. JOE PALCA reporting: The discovery of REM sleep in 1953 coincided with the year ... Before scientists knew about REM, sleep research was pretty much a backwater. Who ...

Article: Discoverer of REM sleep dies in crash
Charleston Daily Mail;  July 24, 1998 ;     401 words ...CARLSBAD, Calif. - A famous sleep-research scientist and Marshall University professor ... who discovered rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep has died. Eugene Aserinsky, 77, veered ... percent of total sleep time. Non-REM sleep has four stages, the last of which ...

Article: Study in the Journal Sleep Shows that a Reduction in Sleep Time ...
U.S. Newswire;  January 31, 2006 ;     568 words ... ... cause for this loss of REM sleep remains unknown, the ... and methadone suppress REM sleep. The researchers measured ... that reduce sleep and REM sleep time may increase pain ... Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society. Go online to ...

Article: Effect of a Motor Learning Task on REM Sleep ...
Sleep and Hypnosis;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... learning of procedural tasks enhance REM sleep. An experiment in which eleven subjects ... learning a motor task exerts no effect on REM sleep parameters and, therefore, the results ... procedural skill is related to an increase in REM sleep parameters. One might speculate that ...

Article: Can dreaming unfreeze Parkinson's disease? A study of patients ...
Sleep Review;  June 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... sleep, restless legs syndrome, obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, and REM sleep behavior disorder. (1) REM sleep behavior disorder is a very interesting disorder of REM sleep. In a nutshell, people are normally paralyzed during REM sleep ...

Article: REM Sleep and Visuo-Motor Skill Learning: A ...
Sleep and Hypnosis;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... findings support the association with REM sleep but other studies linked motor learning ... improvement is related to the amount of REM sleep but not to any other sleep stage and ... 59) Key words: Procedural memory, REM sleep, dream content INTRODUCTION Since the ...