Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!imagen!isaak From: isaak@imagen.com (mark isaak) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Echidnas & REM sleep Summary: REM deprivation apparently doesn't always hurt. Message-ID: <1991May1.164938.23143@imagen.com> Date: 1 May 91 16:49:38 GMT References: Sender: news@imagen.com Organization: imagen Lines: 11 In article tomh.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu (Tom Holroyd) writes: >Deprivation of REM sleep causes death. In one of my psychology courses, I heard about an Israeli soldier who, due to an injury (shrapnel in the brain), lost all capacity for REM sleep. He was apparently doing fine otherwise. Sorry, I have no references for this. -- Mark Isaak imagen!isaak@decwrl.dec.com or {decwrl,sun}!imagen!isaak "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." - Nietzsche