Sleep Disorders Research

Sleep Disorders Research

A Brief History of Sleep Research

The history of sleep research started In 1913 when Henri Pieron, a French Scientist, wrote a book called “Le probleme physiologique du sommeil.” This book was the first where sleep was analyzed from a physiological perspective. Since its publication, this is work book is treated as the beginning of the era of the modern sleep research.

Another researcher, Dr. Nathaniel Kleitman, from Chicago, who is now known as the “Father of American sleep research,” started his work in the 1920s. He wasa the first American who was studying sleep in terms …