Slumber’s Unexplored Landscape 
People in traditional societies sleep in eye-opening ways
Sleep practices
vary widely outside modern Western societies, raising critical issues
for sleep research.
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Mary A.
Carskadon
Brown University
Division of Biology and Medicine
Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Box G-EP
Providence, RI 02912-G-EP
A. Roger Ekirch
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University
Department of History
425 Major Williams
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Louis J. Ptáček
University of Utah
Program in Neuroscience
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Roger A.
Stickgold
Massachusetts Mental Health Center
Laboratory of Neurophysiology
74 Fenwood Road
Boston, MA 02115
Thomas A. Wehr
National Institutes of Health
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Clinical Psychobiology Branch
Intramural Research Program
Bethesda, MD 20892-1390
Carol M.
Worthman
Emory University
Department of Anthropology
Atlanta, GA 30322
From Science
News, Vol. 156, No. 13, September 25, 1999, p. 205. Copyright ©
1999, Science Service. |