A researcher, clinician, educator, advocate, mentor and friend to the entire sleep community and beyond, Dement is a luminary in the history of sleep medicine who helped build the sleep field with unrivaled passion, dedication and enthusiasm.ĭement’s lifetime of sleep discoveries began at the University of Chicago in the 1950s, where he joined physiologist Nathaniel Kleitman and graduate student Eugene Aserinsky, who discovered rapid eye movement (REM) sleep in 1953. According to Stanford Medicine, he died at the age of 91 after a two-year battle with cardiovascular disease. The AASM regrets to announce the passing of our founding president, Dr. Guiding Principles for Industry Support.Young Investigators Research Forum (YIRF).Accredited Sleep Technologist Education Program (A-STEP).Advanced Practice Registered Nurses and Physician Assistants (APRN PA).Dement offers a hands-on prescription for vibrant good health and longevity, including: self-tests to determine how much sleep you really need information on the role of prescription and over-the-counter sleeping aids the latest research on how sleep affects the immune system how to combat insomnia, snoring, jet-lag and much more. William Dement, founder and director of the Stanford University Sleep Research Center, takes us on a fascinating tour of the sleeping body and mind, revealing the price we pay for ignoring sleep - an epidemic of heart disease, 33 percent of traffic-fatigue-related accidents and immeasurable mental and psychological disadvantages.ĭr.
And yet we are a sleep-sick society, ignorant of the facts of sleep - and the price of sleep deprivation. Healthful sleep has been empirically proven to be the single most important factor in predicting longevity, more influential than diet, exercise, or heredity. SLEEP BETTER, LIVE LONGER WITH THE GROUNDBREAKING INFORMATION AND STEP-BY-STEP PROGRAM IN THIS REVOLUTIONARY AUDIOBOOK
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