title: Why sleep?
abstract: Alert clinicians realize that much more data are fragmentedly available than has coherently been assimilated for practical application to the understanding of sleep--its vital function, its vicissitudes and its values. Now may be the time to add to sleep research, a dimension of field trips away from the labs. Cross cultural data might also be correlated, bringing social anthropologists and sleep physiologists together for didactic exchange.
mesh_terms: D004775:Enuresis / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D009290:Narcolepsy; D009622:Noise; D012890:Sleep; D012892:Sleep Deprivation; D007319:Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders; D012895:Sleep, REM