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Show " Brain Wave Studies si of Sleep Process nab """ ill New York. Different parts of the ine brain apparently go to sleep separately sep-arately and to different degrees, itfcDrs. H. Davis and P. A. Davis of 10ti Harvard Medical school and Drs. ner s 1. Loomis, E. N. Harvey and G. star Hobart of the Loomis laboratory at all ;.Iuxedo, N. Y., have found in brain ill wave studies reported to the jour-re;M jour-re;M Science. Their studies also I in suggest that clues to the cause of many mental diseases or abnormal-lliof abnormal-lliof 'to may be found in studies of ec; normal 'ailing asleep process. 'lel( ,FUr kinds of brain waves or in! '-'ST Ctr'Cal patterns appear during d , 8oin8 t( sleep process, they found. First there is the state when i, Pson Is at rest but awake. ;. Next follow different kinds of waves the drowsy "floating" state. A wcond intermediate state is char-lili:! char-lili:! '2Cd by a stul different brain Hcc-u pattern' and this merges the fourth pattern found in st P real sleep. 01 practical importance, they Wnt out, 1S fte fact ttat tte pa ' rns 0 cly sleep In normal per-? per-? ons are strikingly like those seen esC some mentaUy sick or otherwise tier.: formal persons. Scientists mak- Sp;V t Wave studies should not !' Buled by the pattern of an un: ion .Pectcd dozing or "floating- state i I f sing a state ot meal ons '"normality. ",CrS ,Similarily suggests that .,se. J abnormal mental conditions h:' S l?ini n general modifica-'tall modifica-'tall ain fund'on which are $ Entail, like those of normal |