Sleep in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Fig. 11.1 Descartes’ (1632) model of the brain awake showing tense fibers and strong spirits. Diagram M. The spirits leave gland h ( pineal), having dilated a ( ventricles) and…
The Greco-Roman Period
Fig. 8.1 Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep Message dreams, as well as “symbolic dreams” [1], which contained more enigmatic imagery, were clearly seen by the ancients as being supernatural…
The Insomnias: Historical Evolution
© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2015Sudhansu Chokroverty and Michel Billiard (eds.)Sleep Medicine10.1007/978-1-4939-2089-1_25 25. The Insomnias: Historical Evolution Suresh Kumar1, 2 and Sudhansu Chokroverty3 (1) Department of Neurology, Sree Balajee Medical College and Hospital, Chrompet, Chennai, India (2)…
History of Epidemiological Research in Sleep Medicine
Fig. 24.1 The first international meeting on epidemiology of sleep/wake disorders was organized in Milano Marittima, Italy, in May 1982. Milano Marittima 1982. Bill Dement and Elio Lugaresi are in…
Evolution of the Classification of Sleep Disorders
F51 Nonorganic sleep disorders F51.0 Nonorganic insomnia F51.1 Nonorganic hypersomnia F51.2 Nonorganic disorder of the sleep–wake schedule F51.3 Sleepwalking (somnambulism) F51.4 Sleep terrors (night terrors) F51.5 Nightmares F51.8 Other nonorganic…
African Sleeping Sickness
2. WHO. Control and surveillance of African trypanosomiasis. Report of a WHO Expert Committee. Technical Report Series no.°881. Geneva; 1998. 3. Hotez PJ, Fenwick A, Savioli L, Molyneux DH. Rescuing…
Sleep and HIV Disease
In December 2008, CDC published Revised Surveillance Case Definitions for HIV Infection Among Adults, Adolescents, and Children Aged < 18 Months and for HIV Infection and AIDS Among Children Aged 18 Months…
Encephalitis Lethargica
Fig. 20.1 Constantin von Economo (1876–1931) In 1917, the language of sleep–wake illness was still largely derived from ancient Greek . Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep had not been discovered,…
Sleep Medicine Around the World (Beyond North American and European Continents, and Japan)
Name of society Year founded The Association for the Psychophysiological Study of Sleep (APSS) 1964 The European Sleep Research Society (ESRS) 1971 The Japanese Research Committee of Sleep (JRCS) 1973…
History of Japanese Clinical Sleep Medicine
© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2015Sudhansu Chokroverty and Michel Billiard (eds.)Sleep Medicine10.1007/978-1-4939-2089-1_17 17. History of Japanese Clinical Sleep Medicine Naoko Tachibana1 (1) Center for Sleep-related Disorders, Kansai Electric Power Hospital, 2-1-7 Fukushima, 553–0003 Fukushima, Osaka, Japan …
