Sleep facts and health issues.. time has come to wake up from  deep slumber and act

Dr  BinduKutty

doi:10.58739/jcbs/v03i3.14

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Sleep facts and health issues.. time has come to wake up from deep slumber and act

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Journal of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences

DOI: 10.58739/jcbs/v03i3.14

Year: 2013, Volume: 3, Issue: 3, Pages: 106-107

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Sleep facts and health issues.. time has come to wake up from deep slumber and act

Dr. BinduKutty

Professor, Dept. of Neurophysiology, NIMHANS, Bangalore functions as General Secretary, ISSR (Indian Society for Sleep Research) and Teaching faculty, NSMC (National Sleep Medicine Course; an initiative undertaken by ISSR to popularize sleep education in India).

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Abstract

Sleep and dreams have fascinated people from different walks of life since time immemorial. It is man’s imaginative prowess on sleep that perhaps provided eternity to Joe in Pickwick papers of Charles Dickensand Joe's sleep has been described as ‘Pickwickian syndrome’ and subsequently the Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome by today’s medical science. Similarly, Kumbhakarna’s ( one of the most interesting characters in the Ramayana epic ) sleeping pattern is compared to the ‘Sleeping Beauty Syndrome’. William Shakesphere’s descriptions on sleep and dreams are really the true examples of the man’s imaginative prowess on sleep. Dreams too can be creative! The dreams of August Kekule, Dmitry Mendeleyev and Otto Loewi have magnetized and kick started the scientific discoveries respectively of Benzene ring, periodic table and about the chemical neurotransmission.