REM - Rapid Eye Movement

Sleep expert William Dement coined the term REM sleep, for Rapid Eye Movement, to describe the portion of sleep when people dream.

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Dr. William C. Dement, a leading authority on sleep disorders, posed in 1982 next to an EEG machine, a sleep research tool for studying eye movement, muscle tension and brain waves. Photo: Stanford News Service archives