TY  - JOUR
T1  - COmments on recent sleep research related to psychoanalytic theory
AU  - ALTSHULER KZ
Y1  - 1966/09/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpsyc.1966.01730150011002
JO  - Archives of General Psychiatry
SP  - 235
EP  - 239
VL  - 15
IS  - 3
N2  - IN THE last ten years the study of dreams has ceased to be an exclusive realm of the clinical practitioner. The work of Dement and Kleitman in 1957 and the rapidly increasing number of their colleagues ever since confirmed beyond question the coincidence of rapid eye movements (REM), low voltage, fast electroencephalogram (stage 1 EEG), and visual dreams, and led to the recognition of dreams as universally occurring cyclical phenomena, biologically rooted in man's genetic neurophysiological endowment. Dream periodicity and length have been determined in various age groups, and the limits to which they may be influenced are being defined by studies of drugs, interruption or deprivation of dreams, and the like. One pathological entity, narcolepsy, has been clarified as a possible derangement of the mechanism underlying the REM state, while studies of identical twins, with and without mental illness, are defining the immediacy
SN  - 0003-990X
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.1966.01730150011002
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1966.01730150011002
ER  -