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Edited by Sudhansu Chokroverty. 504 pp. Boston, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1994. $125. ISBN 0-7506-9002-X.

The field of sleep-disorders medicine has expanded rapidly since the discovery of rapid-eye-movement sleep in the mid-1950s. With a base of fewer than two dozen sleep-research centers, the first program focusing on the clinical aspects of sleep was established at UCLA under the direction of Dr. Anthony Kales. The description of obstructive sleep apnea by Christian Guilleminault in the late 1970s sparked the growth of clinical interest in sleep medicine, as did the leadership of Dr. William Dement in defining the field of sleep-disorders medicine and creating an organization of clinicians in the field. Today, almost 2000 centers in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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