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Nathaniel Kleitman

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University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 
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Father of modern sleep research
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Discovered REM

Mean distance: 15.65 (cluster 19)
 

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Anton Julius Carlson grad student 1923 Chicago
 (Studies on the physiology of sleep.)

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Eugene Aserinsky grad student Chicago
William Dement grad student 1953-1957 Chicago
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Aserinsky E, Kleitman N. (2003) Regularly occurring periods of eye motility, and concomitant phenomena, during sleep. 1953. The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. 15: 454-5
Kleitman N. (1970) Study wakefulness. Study the rest-activity cycle. Don't just study sleep. International Psychiatry Clinics. 7: 381-4
Kleitman N. (1967) Phylogenetic, ontogenetic and environmental determinants in the evolution of sleep-wakefulness cycles. Research Publications - Association For Research in Nervous and Mental Disease. 45: 30-8
Foster D, Kleitman N. (1965) Sleep and Wakefulness American Journal of Psychology. 78: 169
KLEITMAN N. (1964) THE EVOLUTIONARY THEORY OF SLEEP AND WAKEFULNESS. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 7: 169-78
KLEITMAN N. (1960) The sleep cycle. The American Journal of Nursing. 60: 677-9
DEMENT W, KLEITMAN N. (1957) Cyclic variations in EEG during sleep and their relation to eye movements, body motility, and dreaming. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology. 9: 673-90
KLEITMAN N. (1957) Sleep, wakefulness, and consciousness. Psychological Bulletin. 54: 354-9; discussion 36
DEMENT W, KLEITMAN N. (1957) The relation of eye movements during sleep to dream activity: an objective method for the study of dreaming. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 53: 339-46
KLEITMAN N, ENGELMANN G. (1955) The development of the diurnal (24-hour) sleep-wakefulness rhythm in the infant. Acta Medica Scandinavica. Supplementum. 307: 106
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