Discovery of the dreaming sleep stage: A recollection

Sleep

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-16

  Gottesmann, Claude ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b NONE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DREAMING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE MOVEMENT; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LETTER; MUSCLE RELAXATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP STAGE; WAKEFULNESS; ANIMAL; CAT; DREAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HISTORY;

ANIMALS; CATS; DREAMS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; SLEEP, REM;

EID: 61549091528     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: 15509109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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