Michel Jouvet (1925–2017)
Autor(a) de The Paradox of Sleep: The Story of Dreaming
About the Author
Michel Jouvet was born in Lons-le-Saunier, France on November 16, 1925. During World War II, he fought with the French Resistance. He studied anthropology and ethnography before entering medical school at the University of Lyon. He became a neurosurgical resident there in 1951. He received a mostrar mais doctorate in 1956. He became a research director at the French Institute of Health and Medical Research in 1966 and a professor and the director of the department of experimental medicine at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 in 1968. He was a neurophysiologist who discovered the region of the brain that controls rapid eye movement (REM) and who helped define REM sleep as a unique state of consciousness common to humans and animals alike. He wrote several books including The Paradox of Sleep: The Story of Dreaming and the novel The Castle of Dreams. He died on October 3, 2017 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Jouvet, Michel Valentin Marcel
- Data de nascimento
- 1925-11-16
- Data de falecimento
- 2017-10-03
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- France
- Local de nascimento
- Lons-le-Saunier, Jura, France
- Local de falecimento
- Villeurbanne, France
- Educação
- University of Leon
- Ocupações
- Neurophysiologist
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Críticas
This is another library book that I did not delve into it until the last moment, Despite being pbulished over 20 years ago, I can see I need to explore it further, and find out more about paradoxical sleep and oneiric behavior, as well as Jouvet's observations of sleeping cats.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 13
- Membros
- 105
- Popularidade
- #183,191
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 2
- ISBN
- 29
- Línguas
- 7
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