Michel Jouvet

Michel Jouvet ( born November 16, 1925 in Lons -le- Saunier ) is a French neuroscientist and dream researchers. He is now Emeritus Professor of Experimental Medicine at the Medical Faculty of the University of Lyon.

Jouvet had training in neurosurgery at Paul Wertheimer in Lyon. His actual occupation with neuroscience began in 1955 after a stay in the laboratory of Horace Magoun at the VA Hospital ( Veterans Affairs ) in Long Beach. He continued his research after returning as a scientist by the CNRS and later was Director of Research at CNRS at the University of Lyon and the Neurological Clinic in Lyon.

In 1959 he described the EEG signals in brain death. Jouvet was involved in the late 1950s and early 1960s in the development of the concept of REM sleep. In 1961 he shared the stages of sleep in Telenzephalische (shallow sleep phase ) and Rhombenzephalische ( REM sleep, which he called paradoxical sleep phase ) a, the latter, in his words, the third condition of the brain. In 1962, he localized with staff to Pons as part of the brain that controls the sleep stages. He showed in experiments on cats that only one REM sleep in intact Pons is possible and the atonia during REM sleep is caused by inhibition of motor centers in the medulla oblongata. With his staff, he also explored the different sleep stages in a variety of animal species.

It represents a speculative theory (The paradox of sleep, 1999) that the REM phase is a kind of iterative programming of the brain to maintain the psychological identity of the person.

In 1989 he received the Gold Medal of the CNRS. Since 1977 he is a member of the Académie des sciences. In 1981 he received the intra- Sciences Prize, the Prix mondial Cino 1991 Del Duca and 1983 the price of the Foundation for the Medical Research.

Writings

  • Neurophysiology of états de sommeil ', Paris, CNRS, 1965 ( Italian translation of La Natura del Sogno, Rome 1991)
  • Le sommeil et le rêve, Paris, Odile Jacob, 1992.
  • Le château des songes, Paris, Odile Jacob, 1992.
  • Le Grenier des rêves, Paris, Odile Jacob, 1997.
  • Où, quand, comment: Pourquoi rêvons - nous pourquoi dormons - nous, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2000? .
  • The paradox of sleep: the story of dreaming, MIT Press 1999
  • The states of sleep, Scientific American, February 1967, online
Lons-le-Saunier France Horace Winchell Magoun Long Beach, California Centre national de la recherche scientifique Atony Prix mondial Cino Del Duca Nathaniel Kleitman
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