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...been able to record brain activity in sleep, but the feeling was, why bother? Why waste reams of costly graph paper making electroencephalogram recordings of what was thought to be a neurological desert? With no strong expectation of finding otherwise, University of Chicago researchers Eugene Aserinski and Nathaniel Kleitman decided it was worth doing, monitoring 10 subjects in a laboratory. Their findings turned our understanding of the sleeping brain upside down...
...sexual organs) rise, while the eyes move rapidly beneath their lids. Brain waves are low-voltage and high-frequency-the opposite to the brain waves of deep sleep, more like what goes on when a person is awake, thinking and talking. Awoken from this paradoxical state that Aserinski and Kleitman called Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, subjects could usually recall vivid dreams. In a single swoop, the pair had not only uncovered what many regard as a third state of consciousness, but raised expectations that the mysteries of how and why we dream might soon be solved...
DIED. NATHANIEL KLEITMAN, 104, pioneer sleep expert at the University of Chicago and discoverer, with associates, of REM sleep in 1953; in Los Angeles. Kleitman's studies--on dream-sleep deprivation, the effect of sunlight on slumber--established sleep research as a separate, significant medical field...
Stemmle, who spent two summers as a Kleitman fellow in 1994 and 1995, echoes Green's recommendation. "It was a really good experience for what research is really like, for what your daily life is if you're a researcher," she says. "I decided in the end that primary care is going to be more...
Sheri K. Green '96, who spent the summer of 1994 as a Kleitman fellow, says, "I would advocate the fellowship as a good experience for pre-meds. It's a great way to spend the summer. You get paid, you get clinical experience, and you get to work with Dr. Czeisler." Green received a $1,500 stipend for her work...