![]() Dement had an interest in psychiatry, which in those days considered dreams to be important, so he was excited by the discovery and was eager to pursue it. Aserinsky, along with his and Dement's adviser Nathaniel Kleitman, had previously noticed the connection but hadn't considered it very interesting. ![]() Kleitman and I think these eye movements might be related to dreaming". His fellow student Eugene Aserinsky had mentioned to him that "Dr. In the 1950s, of those who also studied at the University of Chicago he was the first to intensively study the connection between rapid eye movement and dreaming. For this pioneering work in a previously uncharted field in the United States, he is sometimes referred to as the American father of sleep medicine.ĭement was born in Wenatchee, Washington, in 1928. He was a leading authority on sleep, sleep deprivation and the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and narcolepsy. ![]() William Charles Dement (J– June 17, 2020) was an American sleep researcher and founder of the Sleep Research Center at Stanford University. ![]()
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