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Sleep as a Biological Rhythm: A Historical Review

Author(s) -

Wilse B. Webb

Publication year - 1994

Publication title -

sleep

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.222

H-Index - 207

eISSN - 1550-9109

pISSN - 0161-8105

DOI - 10.1093/sleep/17.2.188

Subject(s) - chronobiology , circadian rhythm , rhythm , sleep (system call) , biological clock , dark therapy , neuroscience , psychology , period (music) , vigilance (psychology) , physiology , medicine , computer science , physics , acoustics , operating system

In the early 1960s sleep was generally viewed as a homeostatic system and its circadian rhythm characteristics were unexplored. During this period the maturing field of chronobiology had paid scant attention to sleep as a biological system. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the concepts and procedures of chronobiology were rapidly incorporated into sleep research. By the 1980s, the conception of sleep as a circadian rhythm had been accomplished. This major and rapid paradigm shift can be attributed largely to the accessibility of the developed area of chronobiology.

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