發作性睡病

雖然患有這種疾病的人不會像電影中那樣臉朝下栽進湯裡,但發作性睡病仍然是一種神秘的疾病。但科學已經有了新的線索

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Brainstem Mechanisms Generating REM Sleep. Jerome M. Siegel in Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine. Third edition. Edited by Meir H. Kryger, Thomas Roth and William C. Dement. W. B. Saunders, 2000.

Sleep and Dreaming. Alan Rechtschaffen and Jerome M. Siegel in Principles of Neural Science. Fourth edition. Edited by Eric R. Kandel, James H. Schwartz and Thomas M. Jessell. McGraw-Hill, 1999.

Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreaming. Edited by Mary A. Carskadon. Macmillan, 1993.

JEROME M. SIEGEL is a professor of psychiatry and a member of the Brain Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center. He is also chief of neurobiology research at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is a former president of the Sleep Research Society and chair of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies. His other research interests include the evolution and function of REM sleep and the effects of sleep deprivation and apnea.

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