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Word: sitaram (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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While some researchers remain skeptical of cat-brain research, a team of psychiatrists from the National Institute of Mental Health provided strong support for it. Using a similar drug, physostigmine (which indirectly "fires" or triggers brain cells that cause REM sleep), Psychiatrists Natraj Sitaram and J. Christian Gillin produced early REM dream states in humans. When they awakened subjects and quizzed them about their reveries, they found the artificially triggered dreams indistinguishable from normal ones. The researchers think they have established objective criteria for the subjective state of depression: injecting their compounds into different people, they detected a "markedly supersensitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Dreams, Cats and the ERA | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

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