Michel Jouvet: an explorer of dreams and a great storyteller

Michel Jouvet in the late 50s discovered the presence of muscle atonia during REM sleep in cats and created the first model of REM sleep behavior disorder. He built and led in Lyon, France, the “Laboratory of Molecular Dream Science” (a merry oxymoron to silently protest against the research policy of favoring molecular biology over physiology), where in the late 80s, you could cross people who had worked on sleep in the python, tench fish, tortoise, iguana, hens, lamb, mouse, rat and cat. This brilliant physiologist was also a great storyteller with a very good sense of humor.
Source: Sleep Medicine - Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Source Type: research