In a paradoxical way, Michel Jouvet's The Paradox of Sleep is a book of this genre. Yes, Jouvet's musings on the functions of sleep are highly speculative. Yes, they are philosophically confused.

Light and deep sleep differ physiologically, deep sleep having much in common with being awake. Studies with cats now suggest that the two states of sleep are induced by different biochemical ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. In 1959, two French scientists, Michel Jouvet and François Michel, recorded strange patterns of neural activity in the brainstem of sleeping cats ...

Michel Jouvet known worldwide since 1959 for his discovery of paradoxical sleep dives in the twilight of his life in his notebooks of dreams drawings and research An abundant material which ...