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The Secrets of Sleep
- davi 16y ago'"Sleep has been the Rodney Dangerfield of medicine," says John Winkelman, medical director of the Brigham and Women's Hospital's Sleep Health Center in Brighton, Massachusetts. "It just gets no respect."' A lot of neuroscientists I know, including myself, find sleep to be deeply interesting. But at this point in the development of our field, it's a difficult phenomenon to get a handle on. edit: That the thalamus might be implicated in a sleep disorder is consistent (along with a bunch of other findings) with the Francis Crick's 'searchlight' hypothesis: http://www.pnas.org/content/81/14/4586.abstract http://www.pnas.org/content/81/14/4586.abstract