Neonatal sleep, a genetically-driven rehearsal before the show: An infinite encounter with Michel Jouvet

n this short review, I would like to share some personal memories about the insights and achievements of Michel Jouvet in the field of sleep ontogeny. The first time I met Michel Jouvet was in 1972 on the subject of the ontogeny of Paradoxical Sleep. Michel Jouvet had accepted to chair my thesis on sleep in the kitten, a work performed at Howard Roffwarg ’s lab in New York. From then on we had many discussions together about the mechanisms and nature of neonatal Paradoxical Sleep, notably its characteristic muscular “twitches”.
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