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Eugene Aserinsky (May 6, 1921 – July 22, 1998), a pioneer in sleep research, was a graduate student at the University of Chicago in 1953 when he discovered REM sleep. He was the son of a dentist of Russian–Jewish descent. He made the discovery after hours spent studying the eyelids of sleeping subjects.
- May 6, 1921
- American
- July 22, 1998 (aged 77)
- University of Chicago
Fifty years ago, Eugene Aserinksy discovered rapid eye movement and changed the way we think about sleep and dreaming
4 set 2023 · In 1950 Eugene Aserinsky began graduate work at the University of Chicago, reluctantly selecting as his mentor Nathaniel Kleitman, the pre-eminent researcher in the field of sleep. In his very personal account published 46 years later [ 1 ], he describes how Kleitman assigned him the task of observing infants’ blinking rates during ...
4 set 2023 · In contrast, Aserinsky and Kleitman in their classic 1953 paper identified phenomena they observed through electrophysiologic techniques in adults, distinguished the “rapid, jerky eye movements” from previously observed slow eye movements, and woke their patients determining that they were dreaming.
11 dic 2023 · It was then that Kleitman’s graduate student Eugene Aserinsky noticed a pattern of brain activity and eye movements during sleep that would ultimately be called REM sleep — the stage in which...
19 gen 2023 · Paul Rand: What Kleitman and his then student, Eugene Aserinsky, discovered was a new stage of sleep, rapid eye movement, also known as REM sleep. Emmanuel Mignot: It was an incredible discovery to realize that during sleep, even so people could be asleep, the brain could be as active as you are awake in certain period of time when ...
7 ago 1998 · Eugene Aserinsky, a pioneer in sleep studies, died on July 22 when his car hit a tree north of San Diego. He was 77 and lived in Escondido, Calif. In 1953, for his Ph.D. in...
