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Now, early October 2008, deleting much of Sleep medicine draft. Starting thoughts on Sleep research, below, including history of.

New article, about
A proposed structure for Medical Specialty Articles and a list of existing ones is here. See also discussion there: Medical Specialties 13 July 2008 ff and, just thereafter, Proposed Structure for Medical Specialty Articles 16 July 2008 ff.

Sleep medicine was previously a redirect to Sleep disorder.

For example:


 * Lead - Introduction to the subject, see Lead section
 * Scope - Scope of the specialty; identify important sub-specialities
 * History - History of development of field, including notable people
 * Investigations - Investigations/diagnostics used in specialty
 * Treatments - Treatments used in specialty
 * (+ maybe Current practice/Current trends, Societies/Organisations around the world, Publications/Journals)
 * Ethical and medico-legal issues - ethical and legal issues in field ---Are there any to mention?? Misdiagnosis, of course.
 * Training - Training around the world ---Need info on 'round the world.
 * Research - Research themes in specialty
 * See also - avoid if possible, use wikilinks in the main article
 * Notes
 * References
 * Further reading or Bibliography - paper resources such as books, not web sites
 * External links - avoid if possible

Tests and other tools




Notes to myself
What's left now?


 * 1) Treatment

Research themes -- leave this out for now....

Check these http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/cgi-bin/search?site=NHLBI_Public&client=NHLBI_Public_frontend&proxystylesheet=NHLBI_Public_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd&getfields=description.keywords&q=sleep+disorder

Remember to re-do the bottom of Sleep disorder!

Remember
 * Category:Medicine]]
 * Category:Sleep]]
 * Category:Medical specialties]]
 * Category:Subjects taught in medical school]]

One collaborator: Looie496
From Talk, Enchanted loom: ....would like to tackle (history of) Sleep research some day, though I'm probably in over my head. Perhaps I can call on you for help after your present big project winds down? --Hordaland (talk) 10:14, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not actually that strong on the history of sleep research, but I'm pretty well up on current understanding of what happens in the brain during sleep, and will certainly pitch in if that aspect comes into play. Looie496 (talk) 17:13, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

I've answered on Looie's talk page, 6 October:
 * You wrote (at Enchanted loom, Talk): "...I'm pretty well up on current understanding of what happens in the brain during sleep, and will certainly pitch in if that aspect comes into play." Moving that here, as that was an obscure place for such a thread.


 * Thanks a million! It may be ages until I get to it - am just starting thinking.  There wasn't room for such a section in Sleep medicine, but articles about medical specialties ought to include something about 'Research themes in specialty' which would mean current stuff as well as some history.  I'm thinking a daughter article, thus primarily human, though various fruit flies and mice will also need to be credited.  Thanks again,

Another expert: Nicodetr
Nico from Quebec. "Mainly contribute[s] on pages related to biological rhythms and circadian clocks, which are the focus of [her/his] work in "real life", especially in the French Wikipedia."

Paper/article to check out (this or, preferably, PDF version) by Mahowald, excessive daytime sleepiness, mentions hist of past 50 yrs etc. http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:IfbzhvNL05kJ:www.wooster.edu/psychology/ajstavnezer/psyc323/Sleep%2520disorders.pdf+mahowald+%22excessive+daytime+sleepiness%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=14&gl=no&lr=lang_en|lang_no

Hugs: Transcripts from videos of Czeisler and Moore on Rohit's site. (I have them in Word docs.) Particularly Moore names researchers from about 1945 to present.

Notes from Molecular biology of circadian rhythms
edited by Amita Sehgal, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Dept of Neuroscience, Univ of Penn School of Medicine, Philadelphia. Copyright 2004, John Wiley & Sons. PDF 286 pages. 13 PhD's are contributors.

Part I: Intro to c. rhythms

1. General concepts by Amita Sehgal, (pdf)p. 14
 * 1729 - DeMairan
 * 1930s - Kalmus and Bunning
 * 1940s - Endogenous control gained wider acceptance. Reinforcing this, the finding that the periodicity of c.r. in constant conditions varies from species to species and seldom precisely matches any environmental cycle.
 * Non-endogenous rhythms, which don't persist in constant conditions, are called diurnal r.
 * Release of some hormones appears to be rhythmic, but are influenced by sleep.
 * Zeitgeber = Jurgen Aschoff's term. Zeitgeber time, ZT, assumes 12 h light, 12 h dark, where lights on = 0 and lights off = 12. ... Circadian time, CT, is determined in freerunning.
 * "The time at which a rhythmic activity/process occurs defines the phase of that rhythm. ... Typically the parameter that is most constant from day to day is used to define the phase.
 * 1950s - Colin Pittendrigh - temperature compensated. ... Circadian period remains constant over a wide temperature range.
 * "[I]dentification of the photic input pathway is an intence area of research in every organism used for the study of circadian biology."

seen to p,19

2. Genetic and molecular approaches used to analyze rhythms by Amita Sehgal and Jeffrey L. Price, (pdf)p. 28

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