Talk:Somnology

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Only medicine?[edit]

I would have thought that the word somnology applies to sleep research as well as medical treatment. Is that not the case? --Hordaland (talk) 08:50, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That is indeed the case. Sleep medicine is more commonly used to describe the branch of medicine dealing with sleep disorders, while somnology is the study of sleep in general, including everything grom cultural conceptions about sleep, sleep habits in different populations, basic neuroscience of sleep, sleep in various organisms, disorders of sleep and instrumentation and methodology in the study of sleep. 81.231.189.119 (talk) 15:16, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Obsolete Terminology?[edit]

A quick google scan shows that most scientific and medical societies related to sleep do not use this term. Most sleep research journals do not use this term as a title. There is one exception - there is a journal with this exact title - Somnology. However, it's impact factor may be low compared the many other journals published in this area. You can use google scholar to see what journals publish scientific articles about sleep. Or pubmed, etc.

The article should be renamed or merged and the term should be noted as a historical use. There needs to be an article titled something like "Sleep Research" providing an overview of the scientific study of sleep. Codwiki (talk) 13:30, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Codwiki. Much of this article should be moved to Sleep medicine, if it isn't there already. The remainder should be renamed Sleep research, an article which we do need. --Hordaland (talk) 20:39, 31 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

big nuts[edit]

how do i become a somnologist 62.133.103.47 (talk) 10:07, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]