Sleep and Wakefulness

By Nathaniel Kleitman

For half a century, Sleep and Wakefulness has been a valuable reference work. It 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226440737
• ISBN13: 9780226440736
• Release Date: September 1987
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The classic book on sleep research.

This book summarizes the major theories and findings on sleep function and pathology from antiquity to 1962. It contains over 4,300 references. The author and his graduate student, Eugene Aserinsky, discovered the state of REM sleep in 1953. Kleitman did some of the first studies of 24 hour (circadian) rhythms in humans, using the isolated confines of Mammoth cave as his laboratory. All current work in sleep and sleep disorders has Kleitman's book as its foundation. This book is "a must" for all those with a serious interest in sleep function and sleep disorders. Kleitman is now (1999) 104 years old.