@article{4b3c42d686544524838c784ea789a2dd,
title = "History of the development of sleep medicine in the United States.",
abstract = "Sleep Medicine has only recently been recognized as a specialty of medicine. Its development is based on an increasing amount of knowledge concerning the physiology of sleep, circadian biology and the pathophysiology of sleep disorders. This review chronicles the major advances in sleep science over the past 70 years and the development of the primary organizations responsible for the emergence of Sleep Medicine as a specialty, sleep disorders as a public health concern and sleep science as an important area of research.",
author = "Shepard, \{John W.\} and Buysse, \{Daniel J.\} and Chesson, \{Andrew L.\} and Dement, \{William C.\} and Rochelle Goldberg and Christian Guilleminault and Harris, \{Cameron D.\} and Conrad Iber and Emmanuel Mignot and Mitler, \{Merrill M.\} and Moore, \{Kent E.\} and Phillips, \{Barbara A.\} and Quan, \{Stuart F.\} and Rosenberg, \{Richard S.\} and Thomas Roth and Schmidt, \{Helmut S.\} and Silber, \{Michael H.\} and Walsh, \{James K.\} and White, \{David P.\}",
note = "Copyright: This record is sourced from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine",
year = "2005",
month = jan,
day = "15",
doi = "10.5664/jcsm.26298",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "1",
pages = "61--82",
journal = "Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine",
issn = "1550-9389",
publisher = "American Academy of Sleep Medicine",
number = "1",
}