Pentobarbital and dextroamphetamine sulfate: Effects on the sleep cycle in man

✍ Scribed by Frederick Baekeland

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1967
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 511 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0033-3158
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00405022

✦ Synopsis

Since Asv,~i~SKY and KLV, ITMAN'S initial observations in 1953, it has been amply confirmed that there are two distinct kinds of sleep, rapid eye-movement (REM) sleep, awakenings from which usually yield dream reports, and nonrapid eye-movement (NREM) sleep. REM and NRE~ sleep differ biochemically, physiologically and psychologically. (See reviews by FISHER