Nathaniel Kleitman (April 26, 1895 – August 13, 1999) was an American physiologist and sleep researcher who served as Professor Emeritus in Physiology...

Kleitman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Daniel Kleitman (born 1934), American mathematician and professor Nathaniel Kleitman (1895–1999)...

momentum in 1952, when Nathaniel Kleitman and his student Eugene Aserinsky discovered regular cycles. A further experiment by Kleitman and William C. Dement...

loses muscle tone, a state known as REM atonia. In 1953, Professor Nathaniel Kleitman and his student Eugene Aserinsky defined rapid eye movement and linked...

Aserinsky, William Charles Dement, both Aserinsky and their PhD adviser, Nathaniel Kleitman, went on to demonstrate that this "rapid-eye movement" was correlated...

(BRAC) is a physiological arousal mechanism in humans proposed by Nathaniel Kleitman, hypothesized to occur during both sleep and wakefulness. Empirically...

sleep deprivation, the authors point to a technique developed by Nathaniel Kleitman, the "father of sleep research". The subject reclines in a quiet,...

minutes for the average length of a sleep cycle was popularized by Nathaniel Kleitman around 1963. Other sources give 90–110 minutes or 80–120 minutes....

published in 1864. The term sleep hygiene was first introduced in 1939 by Nathaniel Kleitman. In 1977, a book entitled "No More Sleepless Nights" by psychologist...

REM sleep is first published by researchers Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman of the University of Chicago. American scientist Winston Price isolates...

French art critic Boris Katz, American computer scientist at MIT Nathaniel Kleitman, American physiologist and sleep researcher Patricia Kopatchinskaja...

cycles strongly different from 24 hours, such as those conducted by Nathaniel Kleitman in 1938 (28 hours) and Derk-Jan Dijk and Charles Czeisler in the 1990s...

"Dr. Kleitman and I think these eye movements might be related to dreaming". Aserinsky, along with his and Dement's adviser Nathaniel Kleitman, had previously...

antidepressant iproniazid was discovered. 1953 Russian-born physiologist Nathaniel Kleitman of the U. of Chicago discovered Rapid eye movement sleep (REM), founding...

Alfred Kinsey published Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. 1953 – Nathaniel Kleitman of the U. of Chicago discovered rapid eye movement sleep (REM), founding...

Donald O. Hebb Allan Hobson Myron Arms Hofer Jon Kaas Eric Kandel Nathaniel Kleitman Christof Koch Stephen Kosslyn Jerome Lettvin Rodolfo Llinás Terje...

sleep was discovered as distinct, and thus William C. Dement and Nathaniel Kleitman reclassified sleep into four NREM stages and REM. The staging criteria...

university. REM sleep was discovered at the university in 1953 by Nathaniel Kleitman and Eugene Aserinsky. The University of Chicago (Department of Astronomy...

association with dreaming was discovered by Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman with assistance from William C. Dement, a medical student at the time...

classification system in fact follows the groupings suggested by Nathaniel Kleitman, the "father of sleep research", in his seminal 1939 book Sleep and...

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2010-10-07. Remembering Charles Kittel Siegel, J.M. (2001). "A tribute to Nathaniel Kleitman". Psychiatry and Brain Research Institute. 139 (1–2). University of...

rare information about human brain mechanisms. Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman observed REM sleep and concluded that it was the physiological manifestation...

REM sleep is first published, by researchers Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman. September 5 – The United Nations rejects the Soviet Union's suggestion...

Societies 1998 Distinguished Scientist Award, Sleep Research Society 1990 Nathaniel Kleitman Distinguished Service Award, American Academy of Sleep Medicine Insomnia...

to have a circadian rhythm sleep disorder. Physiology professor Nathaniel Kleitman's 1939 book Sleep and Wakefulness, revised 1963, summarized the existing...

other participants were Mary A.B. Brazier, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Nathaniel Kleitman, Margaret Mead and Gregory Zilboorg. Parsons would defend the thesis...

medical researcher, biomedical engineer; MacArthur Fellow in 1981 Nathaniel Kleitman – physiologist and sleep researcher, recognized as the father of modern...

(APSS). Jouvet died at age 91. Eugene Aserinsky William C. Dement Nathaniel Kleitman "Michel Jouvet, pioneering sleep scientist". The Telegraph. October...

British cartoonist. Frederick Hart, 55, American sculptor, cancer. Nathaniel Kleitman, 104, American physiologist and sleep researcher. Maria Krüger, 94...