Abstract:Both sleep and wakefulness in excess are signs of illness. Aphorism LXXI -Hippocrates, 5 th century BC H ippocrates, the father of Medicine, spoke of the importance of sleep through this wonderful aphorism. However, it can be said that it was only in 1929 that the modern era of sleep investigation began, with the description of the electrical activity of the human brain by the German psychiatrist Hans Berger, who created the term "electroencephalography". In Chicago in the 1930s, Loomis, Harvey and Hobart 1 co… Show more
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