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AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF SLEEP

Boris Sidis, Ph.D., M.D.

Boston: R. Badger, 1909

TO
DR. MORTON PRINCE
 in appreciation of his originality in Philosophy and Psychology
and of his staunch friendship towards THE AUTHOR.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I―EXPERIMENTAL

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I Introductory Remarks
II Theories of Sleep
III The Conditions of Sleep
IV Intermediary States
V The Induction of Sleep States
VI Experiments on Frogs
VII Experiments on Guinea-Pigs
VIII Experiments on Cats
IX Experiments on Dogs
X Experiments on Children
XI Motor Reactions and the Nature of Sleep

 

PART II―THEORETICAL

XII Cell Energy, Threshold, "Stimulus-Exhaustion" and Sleep
XIII Motor Consciousness and Sleep
Appendix Bibliography

Scanned (OCR) by Leon Hansen.

 


 

 

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