Mapping the darkness : the visionary scientists who unlocked the mysteries of sleep
"A century ago, sleep was considered a state of nothingness -- even a primitive habit that we could learn to overcome. Then, an immigrant scientist and his assistant spent a month in the depths of a Kentucky cave, making nationwide headlines and thrusting sleep science to the forefront of our consciousness. In the 1920s, Nathaniel Kleitman founded the world's first dedicated sleep lab at the University of Chicago, where he subjected research part...
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