An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

KLEITMAN, Nathaniel

3 entries
  • 12448

Sleep and wakefulness as alternating phases in the cycle of existence.

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1939.

Discusses phases of the sleep cycle, experimental work on sleep and wakefulness, sleep disorders and their treatment, and such sleep-like states as hypnosis and hibernation.



Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Sleep Physiology & Medicine
  • 12449

Regularly occurring periods of eye motility, and concomitant phenomena, during sleep.

Science, 118, 273-274, 1953.

Aserinsky, one of Kleitman's graduate students, decided to hook sleepers up to an early version of an electroencephalogram machine, which scribbled across 12 mile (800 m) of paper each night. In the process, Aserinsky noticed that sleepers went through periods when their eyes darted wildly back and forth several times each night. Kleitman and Aserinsky introduced the world to "rapid-eye movement," or REM sleep, and demonstrated that REM sleep was correlated with dreaming and brain activity. 



Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Sleep Physiology & Medicine
  • 12450

Cyclic variation in EEG during sleep and their relation to eye movements, body motility and dreaming.

Electroencephalography & Clin. Neurophysiol., 9, 673-690, 1957.

The authors conducted the first intensive study of the relationship between rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and dreaming.



Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Sleep Physiology & Medicine