The lasting legacy of Charles Fisher (1908-1988), pioneering sleep laboratory scientist and sleep medicine psychiatrist.

Autor: Schenck CH; Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA.; Department of Psychiatry, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA.; Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA., Provini F; Department of Biomedical and NeuroMotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.; IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Bologna, Italy., Eiser AS; Michigan Medicine Sleep Disorders Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.; Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society [Sleep Adv] 2024 Nov 04; Vol. 5 (1), pp. zpae082. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Nov 04 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1093/sleepadvances/zpae082
Abstrakt: Charles Fisher is a pioneering historical figure in sleep laboratory research and sleep medicine who distinguished himself in nine areas: (1) he first documented nocturnal sleep-onset rapid eye movement (REM) sleep periods in narcoleptic patients; (2) he published the first case of polysomnography (PSG) documented acute REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) that was triggered by sudden withdrawal from a monoamine oxidase inhibitor in 1978, 8 years before the formal identification of RBD; (3) he worked with Roffwarg and Dement on the early delineation of the ontogeny of the human sleep cycle; (4) he first demonstrated that benzodiazepine (diazepam) therapy was effective in controlling night terrors together with suppression of stage 4 non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, and he was also an early investigator of night terrors as phenomena emerging from stage 4 NREM sleep, without dreaming, as had been traditionally assumed; (5) he collaborated with another pioneering sleep medicine physician, William C. Dement on studies focused on REM sleep deprivation and dreaming at Fisher's Mt. Sinai Hospital sleep laboratory in New York City; (6) he published the first PSG-documented case of sleep-related (psychogenic) dissociative disorder in 1976; (7) he first documented that typical nightmares ("anxiety dreams") occurred during REM sleep; (8) he conducted some of the earliest research, beginning in 1965, that documented cycles of nocturnal penile tumescence emerging in conjunction with REM sleep cycles; and (9) he conducted similar early studies of female sexual arousal during sleep that occurred predominantly in REM sleep.
(© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Sleep Research Society.)
Databáze: MEDLINE