William C. Dement

William Charles Dement ( born July 29, 1928 in Wenatchee ) is an American pioneer of sleep research. He was a professor at Stanford University and taught in the late 1960s the first clinical sleep laboratory in the United States ( Sleep Research Center at Stanford ).

Life

Accordingly studied much at the University of Washington (Bachelor 1951) and at the University of Chicago, where he at Nathaniel Kleitman ( the doyen of American sleep research ) to the pioneering work of REM sleep ( what Eugene Aserinsky and Kleitman 1953 first published ) was involved and was awarded his doctorate in 1955 Kleitman (MD), followed by a Ph. D. in 1957. he then went to the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York ( Internship in 1957/58 ), where he continued his sleep research and in the late 1950s as could distinguish one of the first continuous EEG recordings from sleeping and made ​​including that of REM sleep concept confirmed and five stages in the sleep (cycles of REM and non- REM sleep). He remained until 1963 at Mount Sinai and then went as an associate professor and director of the sleep laboratory (Sleep Research Laboratory ) to the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University. From 1967, he held a full professorship there had of Psychiatry at Stanford Medical School. From 1970 he was director of the Sleep Disorders Clinic and Lab, the first clinic for sleep disorders. He taught at Stanford until the 2000s.

Dement is known for many contributions to sleep research, especially to sleep. For example, he developed with Mary Carskadon 1975 Multiple Sleep Latency Test and Christian Guillemineault he led the apnea -hypopnea index ( AHI), a for assessing periods of reduced breathing ( hypopnea ) or respiratory arrest (apnea ) during sleep. From 1964 he studied narcolepsy and showed that this was related to disturbances of REM sleep.

In 1975 he founded the American Sleep Disorders Association (later the American Academy of Sleep Medicine ) and was twelve years its president. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. From 1977 he was co-editor of the Journal of Sleep. In 1964 he was awarded the Hofheimer Prize of the American Association Psychiatrical. In 2007 he received an honorary doctorate (D. Sc. ) Of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

He has been married since 1956 and has three children. He is a passionate jazz musician ( bass), who ( as this was at Stanford Artist in Residence ) even with Stan Getz, and Quincy Jones played.

Writings

  • Some must watch while some must sleep. Freeman, San Francisco CA 1972, ISBN 0-7167-0768-3 ( Nachdruck. Norton, New York, NY 1978, ISBN 0-393-09001-9 ).
  • Syndromes with Christian Guilleminault (Ed. ) Sleep apnea ( = Kroc Foundation Series. Vol. 11). A. R. Liss, New York, NY 1978, ISBN 0-8451-0301-6.
  • With Christopher Vaughan: The Promise of Sleep. A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explores the Vital Connection Between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night 's Sleep. Delacorre Press, New York, NY 1999, ISBN 0-385-32008-6.
  • The sleep watchers. Stanford Alumni Association, Stanford, CA 1992, ISBN 0-916318-48-6 ( second edition. Nychthemeron Press, Menlo Park CA 1996, ISBN 0-9649338-0-2 ).
  • Meir H. Kryger, Thomas Roth ( eds.) Principles and practice of sleep medicine. Saunders, Philadelphia PA, 1989, ISBN 0-7216-2383-2 ( 5th edition. Elsevier Saunders, St. Louis MO 2011, ISBN 978-1-416-06645-3 ).
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