1. Michel Valentin Marcel Jouvet was a French neuroscientist and medical researcher.
12 Facts About Michel Jouvet
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Michel Jouvet was Professor of Experimental Medicine at the University of Lyon.
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Michel Jouvet was Director of the Research Unit INSERM U 52 and of the Associated Unit UA 1195 of the CNRS.
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Michel Jouvet spent one year in the laboratory of Horace Magoun in Long Beach, California in 1955.
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Michel Jouvet then undertook research in both experimental neurophysiology at the Faculty of Medicine of Lyon and clinical neurophysiology at the Neurological Hospital of Lyon.
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Michel Jouvet described the electroencephalogram signs of cerebral death in 1959, and in 1961 categorized sleep into two different states: telencephalic sleep and rhombencephalic sleep.
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Michel Jouvet mapped the areas of the brain that are responsible for REM.
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In 1959, Michel Jouvet conducted several experiments on cats regarding muscle atonia during REM sleep.
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Michel Jouvet demonstrated that the generation of REM sleep depends on an intact pontine tegmentum and that REM atonia is due to an inhibition of motor centres in the medulla oblongata.
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Michel Jouvet's research led to the identification of REM sleep behavior disorder.
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Michel Jouvet was elected in 1977 to the French Academy of Sciences and received the Intra-Sciences Prize in the United States in 1981 and the Prize of the Foundation for the Medical Research in 1983.
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In June 2003, Michel Jouvet was recognized at the 17th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.