Abstract: A brain damaged patient who is improving will have a higher percentage of REM sleep than one who is not. The improvement we studied is that occurring over a period of weeks and months, so it cannot be attributed to the return of function of temporarily damaged, but not destroyed, brain tissue. Improvement was therefore to be considered as new learning or programming. Patients suffering from aphasia as the result of a discrete cerebrovascular accident or of trauma are able to enhance their improvement by increasing amounts of REM sleep inducing activities (such as having a regular sleep schedule with a systematic schedule of phase changes in circadian rhythms) and diminishing REM sleep reducers such as caffeine, noise or a use of tranquilizers.

Abstract: A brain damaged patient who is improving will have a higher percentage of REM sleep than one who is not. The improvement we studied is that occurring over a period of weeks and months, so it cannot be attributed to the return of function of temporarily damaged, but not destroyed, brain tissue. Improvement was therefore to be considered as new learning or programming. Patients suffering from aphasia as the result of a discrete cerebrovascular accident or of trauma are able to enhance their improvement by increasing amounts of REM sleep inducing activities (such as having a regular sleep schedule with a systematic schedule of phase changes in circadian rhythms) and diminishing REM sleep reducers such as caffeine, noise or a use of tranquilizers.

Abstract: People can be taught to control voluntarily their own alpha rhythms. This can be used to send messages in Morse code and printed out by printer when an electroencephalogram pattern is processed by an appropriate computer program. Such procedures can also be used as control signals to activate servomechanisms any other device or appliance.

Abstract: People can be taught to control voluntarily their own alpha rhythms. This can be used to send messages in Morse code and printed out by printer when an electroencephalogram pattern is processed by an appropriate computer program. Such procedures can also be used as control signals to activate servomechanisms any other device or appliance.

Abstract: A luminescent ovulation/menstrual cycle adjustment process to entrain preselected biorhythms with a scheduled regimen of photic stimulation. This process is performed by subjecting a woman subject to a nocturnal light exposure that corresponds exactly to a lunar cycle of 29.5-days.

Abstract: The structure constant, Cn2, for optical index of refraction fluctuations is the key to the design of adaptive optical systems that minimize the effects of turbulence on laser beam propagation. This invention uses our model, which converts standard radiosonde data into Cn2 profiles. The results are compared to directly measured in situ values of Cn2 obtained by means of balloon borne thermosondes.