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These findings were reported to the American Psychiatric Association at a long evening meeting, before a surprisingly wide-awake audience, by Dr. William Dement, 31, a research fellow in psychiatry at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. While a member of Physiologist Nathaniel Kleitman's research team at the University of Chicago, Dr. Dement had helped to settle an age-old question: Is dreaming continuous during sleep? The answer is no: it is intermittent. The beginning of a dream is signaled by brainwave changes shown on the electroencephalogram and by rapid eye movements...
...feed for several hours, the liver reverses the starch-storing process and turns the glycogen into energy. When the baby begins feeding, the liver goes on to a normal, lifelong rate of glycogen manufacture. ¶ "Such stuff as dreams are made on" brought unsuspected data from Chicago Physiologists William Dement and Nathaniel Kleitman: a person can dream for an average of two hours a night and remember little of it; his chances of remembering decrease the longer he sleeps after the dream ends; dreaming does not take place while the body is restless in light sleep; far from flashing...
...story of a neurotic dog called Nick (or, as the French broadcaster put it, un brave toutou qui dement neurasthénique...
Actually, the stuff is pretty easy to find. A just-published booklet (Handbook oj Uranium Minerals by Jack DeMent and H. C. Dake, Mineralogist Publishing Co., Portland, Ore., $1.50) makes it sound as if anyone could go prospecting...
...spectacular nature of the larger comets and is not so moved by the discovery of invisible ones to which the field has of late been reduced From the scientific point of view the recording of comets is important so that general laws can be made for a hitherto mysterious dement in the sky. It was once figured that people devoting full time to the search for comets spent on the average 400 hours of actual observation between each discovery...