New evidence on sleep ontogeny in adults

Sleep medicine was in its early days when Roffwarg, Muzio, and Dement published their authoritative review of the development of sleep throughout life. 1 Roffwarg HP Muzio JN Dement WC Ontogenetic development of the human sleep-dream cycle. Science. 1966; 152: 604-619 Crossref PubMed Scopus (1007) Google Scholar Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep had been discovered only about a decade earlier 2 Aserinsky E Kleitman N Regularly occurring periods of...