KLEITMAN, Nathaniel (1895 – 1999)
1895 – 1999
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
1939 CE
#12448
Sleep and wakefulness as alternating phases in the cycle of existence.
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.
1953 CE
#12449
Regularly occurring periods of eye motility, and concomitant phenomena, during sleep.
Aserinsky, one of Kleitman's graduate students, decided to hook sleepers up to an early version of an electroencephalogram machine, which scribbled across 1⁄2 mile (800 m) of paper each night. In the process, As…
1957 CE
#12450
Cyclic variation in EEG during sleep and their relation to eye movements, body motility and dreaming.
The authors conducted the first intensive study of the relationship between rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and dreaming.