Journal of Sleep Disorders & Therapy
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Birendra N. Mallick

Biography

Birendra Nath Mallick earned his BSc (1977) and MSc (1979) in Physiology from Calcutta University securing the University Gold Medal. He also received a degree in homoeopathic medicine from the Calcutta Homoeopathic Medical College (1979). Thereafter, he completed PhD (1986) from the Physiology Department of AIIMS, New Delhi. He was selected as Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).

Research Interest

His reaserch interest on Sleep is one phenomenon which has earned all sorts of adjectives from individuals from all walks of life including philosophers, painters, writers, poets, scientists and so on. It has earned kudos as refreshing, rejuvenating and balm of all sorrows, whereas some others (although fewer in number) have referred it as non-essential and wastage of time. The single most plausible reason why sleep has invited such diverse comments is that we do not know the precise function of sleep so much so that very recently REMS (an integral part of sleep) has been termed as biological and psychological paradox

 

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