Modern sleep scientists say that Jouvet had the lesion site wrong, but that does not detract from the fact that he first bserved the striking fact that atonia of REM can be eliminated without disturbing the other aspects of REM.

Here is the reponse to my query about the Jouvet finding by Jerry Siegel, an eminent sleep researcher who worked with me on the sleep of monotremes when we shoed that they indeed have REM contrary to earlier reports.

From jsiegel@ucla.edu

Hi Jack,

Great to hear from you!

Here are the critical references. ÝJouvet and Delorme were first,
although their localization to locus coeruleus turns out to be incorrect
and the description is a bit fuzzy in the original report below.
Morrison gives a clearer presentation.

I review the work in my chapter in Krygerís book available on the first
page of my website: http://www.npi.ucla.edu/sleepresearch

I will be visiting Paul in South Africa soon (and Australia .

Regards,
Jerry
 
 

Hendricks JC, Morrison AR, Mann GL (1980) Behavior during paradoxical
sleep differs with lesion site. ÝSleep Research 9:31
Henley K, Morrison AR (1974) A re-evaluation of the effects of lesions of
the pontine tegmentum and locus coeruleus on phenomena of paradoxical
sleep in the cat. ÝActa.Neurobiol.Exp. 34:215-232.
Jouvet M, Delorme F (1965) Locus coeruleus et sommeil paradoxal.
C.R.Soc.Biol. 159:895-899.
Morrison AR (1983) A window on the sleeping brain. ÝScientific American
248:94-102.
Morrison AR (1988) Paradoxical sleep without atonia. ÝArch.ital.Biol.
126:275-289.