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PhD Neuroscience University of California, Berkeley
Masters Psychology Stanford University
Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Ian Oswald was a sleep researcher and psychiatrist. Academic career He was educated first in London and later in Belper, Derbyshire. In 1947, he became a medical student at Caius College, Cambridge, gaining a First Class Honours degree in the Part 2 Tripos in Psychology. He completed his clinical studies in Bristol and, when in the Royal Air Force, gained a knowledge of electroencephalography. He spent two years at Oxford, and for his research received the MD in 1959.

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Discriminative responses to stimulation during human sleep. (1960) (329)
On the Slowness of Action of Tricyclic Antidepressant Drugs (1972) (224)
Effect of oestrogen on the sleep, mood, and anxiety of menopausal women. (1977) (210)
Physiological and psychological differences between good and poor sleepers. (1986) (207)
Circadian variation of lymphocyte subpopulations: a study with monoclonal antibodies. (1983) (195)
Effects of sleep deprivation on behaviour, subsequent sleep, and dreaming. (1962) (170)
Changes During Weeks in Effects of Tricyclic Drugs on the Human Sleeping Brain (1972) (166)
Protein synthesis, bodily renewal and the sleep-wake cycle. (1983) (166)
Sleep Is for Tissue Restoration (1977) (165)
Five Weeks to Escape the Sleeping-pill Habit (1965) (160)
Melancholia and Barbiturates: A Controlled Eeg, Body and Eye Movement Study of Sleep (1963) (152)
Human Brain Protein, Drugs and Dreams (1969) (145)
Sleeping and Waking (1964) (144)
Mono-amine oxidase inhibitors, sleep and mood. (1970) (140)
Trazodone enhances sleep in subjective quality but not in objective duration. (1983) (133)
Sudden bodily jerks on falling asleep. (1959) (121)
Sleep as restorative process: human clues. (1980) (119)
Sleep helps healing. (1984) (117)
Starvation and human slow-wave sleep. (1973) (114)
Amphetamine and Phenmetrazine Addiction (1963) (114)
Eye Movements during Active and Passive Dreams (1962) (107)
Some Experiments in the Chemistry of Normal Sleep (1966) (97)
The effects of two hypnotics on sleep, subjective feelings and skilled performance. (1978) (94)
Benzodiazepine hypnotics remain effective for 24 weeks. (1982) (90)
Sleeping And Waking: Physiology And Psychology (1962) (81)
Heroin and human sleep. (1970) (81)
Further studies of scratching during sleep (1975) (76)
Assessment of insomnia. (1981) (75)
Cyclical “On Demand” Oral Intake by Adults (1970) (74)
Two cases of healthy insomnia. (1968) (72)
Growth hormone increase during sleep after daytime exercise. (1974) (71)
Drugs and sleep. (1968) (68)
Can a rapidly-eliminated hypnotic cause daytime anxiety? (1989) (68)
Sleep after a Bedtime Beverage (1972) (68)
Hyperthyroidism, sleep and growth hormone. (1974) (66)
Drugs of Dependence Though Not of Abuse: Fenfluramine and Imipramine (1971) (65)
Phenelzine, mood response, and sleep. (1973) (64)
Scratching during sleep. (1973) (63)
On Serious Violence during Sleep-Walking (1985) (63)
Effects of paroxetine on human sleep. (1986) (63)
Drugs and sleep. (1968) (57)
The Clinical State, Sleep and Amine Metabolism of a Tranylcypromine (‘Parnate’) Addict (1965) (56)
Chronic Fenfluramine Administration: Some Cerebral Effects (1971) (56)
Acupuncture analgesia: An experimental investigation (1976) (54)
The function of sleep (1976) (53)
Sleep research and mental illness (1975) (53)
Heat production during sleep. (1984) (52)
Falling Asleep Open-eyed During Intense Rhythmic Stimulation (1960) (48)
Anxiety caused by a short-life hypnotic. (1982) (48)
The hypnotic effects of an antihistamine: promethazine. (1986) (47)
Effects of trimeprazine and trimipramine on nocturnal scratching in patients with atopic eczema. (1979) (46)
Effects of two slimming drugs on sleep. (1968) (42)
Apha-adrenergic receptor blockade increases human REM sleep. (1975) (40)
Fitness facilitates sleep (2004) (40)
Effects of repeated ritanserin on middle-aged poor sleepers (2004) (37)
Electroencephalographic changes in acute drug poisoning. (1971) (36)
Anxiety caused by a short-life hypnotic (1982) (35)
The Psychophysiology of Mental Illness (1975) (33)
Two Anti-anxiety Drugs: A Psychoneuroendocrine Study (1973) (32)
One gram of l-tryptophan fails to alter the time taken to fall asleep (1979) (32)
Plasma growth hormone and slow wave sleep increase after interruption of sleep. (1975) (32)
Late Brain Recovery Processes after Drug Overdose (1970) (31)
The effects of distorted visual input on sleep. (1972) (31)
Alcoholism: an inherited disease? (1981) (31)
Overdose of Tricyclic Anti-Depressants and Deductions Concerning their Cerebral Action (1969) (31)
TRIAZOLAM SYNDROME 10 YEARS ON (1989) (31)
Anxiety and sleep after fosazepam. (1976) (30)
Sleep studies in clinical pharmacology. (1980) (29)
Experimental studies of rhythm, anxiety and cerebral vigilance. (1959) (29)
Drug research and human sleep. (1973) (28)
Hypnosis in the Relief of Pain. Revised edition. By R. Ernest and Josephine R. Hilgard Oxford: W. H. Freeman. 1984. Pp. 294. £10.95. (1985) (27)
Two Types of Insomnia: Too Much Waking or Not Enough Sleep (1975) (26)
After-Images from Retina and Brain (1957) (25)
AMPHETAMINE AND PHENMETRAZINE ADDICTION. PHYSIOLOGICAL ABNORMALITIES IN THE ABSTINENCE SYNDROME. (1963) (24)
Lean body mass and non-rapid eye movement sleep. (1987) (23)
The E.E.G., Visual Imagery and Attention (1957) (23)
The why and how of hypnotic drugs. (1979) (22)
The EEG in a case of periodic hypersomnia. (1969) (22)
WHERE ARE THE BRITISH SLEEP APNOEA PATIENTS? (1981) (22)
Induction of illusory and hallucinatory voices with considerations of behaviour therapy. (1962) (22)
Some Experiments in the Chemistry of Narcoleptic Sleep (1966) (22)
Effects of Amylobarbitone and Nitrazepam on the Electrodermogram and Other Features of Sleep (1971) (21)
Anxiety caused by a short-life hypnotic. (1982) (21)
Tryptophan and sleep. (1972) (20)
Rhythmic raiding of refrigerator related to rapid eye movement sleep. (1986) (19)
Mesoridazine and human sleep. (1976) (17)
Effects of loprazolam and of triazolam on sleep and overnight urinary cortisol (2004) (16)
Hypnotics and sleep physiology: A consensus repot (2005) (16)
Sleep mechanisms: recent advances. (1962) (16)
Effect of physical fitness and body composition on sleep and sleep-related hormone concentrations. (1984) (16)
Episodic nocturnal wanderings. (1989) (16)
Effects of lormetazepam and of flurazepam on sleep. (1984) (15)
Relationship between nocturnal plasma oestrogen concentration and free plasma tryptophan in perimenopausal women. (1977) (15)
SOME PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL FEATURES OF HUMAN SLEEP. (1965) (15)
Deprivation of sleep. (1962) (15)
Benzodiazepines cause small loss of body weight. (1980) (14)
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BY WOMEN (1980) (14)
Hypnotics and sleep physiology: a consensus report. European Sleep Research Society, Committee on Hypnotics and Sleep Physiology. (1991) (14)
Eye movements and visually active dreams. (1975) (14)
Human EEG slow-wave sleep increased by a serotonin antagonist. (1982) (13)
Physiology of sleep accompanying dreaming. (1964) (13)
Man of Astonishing Memory (1969) (13)
Do placebos alter sleep? (1976) (13)
Drugs for poor sleepers? (1986) (13)
Hormones and sleep (1977) (12)
E.E.G. signs of death. (1968) (11)
Psychoactive drugs and sleep: withdrawal rebound phenomena. (1971) (11)
Overdose of tricyclic antidepressants and REM sleep rebound. (1970) (11)
Factors influencing changes in the amplitude histogram of the normal EEG during eye opening and mental arithmetic. (1970) (10)
Sleep Studies with Clomipramine (Anafranil) and Related Drugs (1973) (10)
On serious violence during sleep-walking. (1985) (10)
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors and sleep. (1970) (10)
A comparison of the effects of chlormezanone and nitrazepam on sleep. (1982) (10)
Body composition and human sleep (1984) (10)
Debrisoquine, guanethidine, propranolol and human sleep (2004) (9)
Interference with human memory by an antibiotic (2004) (9)
Hospital's Duty to the Suicidal (1971) (9)
THE EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF SLEEP. (1964) (9)
The effect of acute administration of (meta trifluoro methyl‐phenyl)‐l‐(benzoyl oxy) ethyl amino‐2‐propane (780 SE) and fenfluramine on human sleep (1970) (9)
Repeated self-poisoning with paracetamol. (1978) (9)
Safety of triazolam (1991) (8)
Number-Forms and Kindred Visual Images (1960) (8)
Effects of a single dose of mianserin on sleep. (1980) (8)
Viloxazine, sleep, and subjective feelings (1977) (8)
Fenfluramine and growth hormone release. (1973) (8)
Shorter Articles and Notes: A Case of Fluctuation of Awareness with the Pulse (1959) (8)
The EEG of sleep. (1962) (8)
The man who had not slept for 10 years. (1980) (7)
Heroin and human sleep. (1970) (7)
Sleep and hormones (1978) (7)
The Diagnosis of Depressive Syndromes and the Prediction of E.C.T. Responses (1966) (7)
On the origin of the EEG alpha rhythm. (1961) (6)
REM sleep and normal intelligence. (1980) (6)
SLOW NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL SWINGS (1967) (6)
Pruritus and nocturnal wakenings. (1990) (6)
Is Sleep Related to Synthetic Purpose (1973) (5)
Selection and Counselling (1964) (5)
Rules for drug trials. (1989) (5)
The Benefit of Sleep (1987) (5)
Triazolam. Unpublished manufacturers research unfavourable. (1993) (5)
Effect of butriptyline on subjective feelings and sleep. (1977) (5)
Biochemical functions involved in the control of sleep and dreaming: A summary (1965) (5)
EXPLODING HEAD (1988) (5)
The mechanism of sleep disorders: some recent advances. (1965) (5)
Effects of loprazolam and of triazolam on psychological functions (2004) (5)
Preventing Self-poisoning (1966) (5)
Subjective ratings of sleep quality and anxiety after placebo, drug and a food drink (1976) (4)
Psychological medicine. Sleep difficulties. (1975) (4)
The effects of perlapine on sleep (1973) (4)
Doctors on the Air (1956) (4)
Possible mechanism for adverse reactions to triazolam (1991) (4)
Effect of Barbiturates on Dream Content (1969) (4)
Dependence upon hypnotic and sedative drugs. (1975) (3)
Ethics of the placebo (1976) (3)
Sleep, dreaming and drugs. (1968) (3)
Chlormethiazole and temazepam. (1980) (3)
Cheaper Care of Parasuicides (1979) (3)
No effects on sleep of a histamine H1-receptor antagonist: temelastine. (1986) (3)
SLEEP RESEARCH: A critical review (1973) (2)
Addiction or Dependence? (1971) (2)
Sleep, Nutrition, and Mood (1976) (2)
Selected Readings on the Learning Process (1962) (2)
Poisonings beneath the Scottish moon (1981) (2)
Poisoning Treatments Centre (1972) (2)
Withdrawal symptoms and rebound anxiety after six week course of benzodiazepines (1985) (2)
Unusual effect of fenfluramine. (1969) (2)
Cimetidine and human sleep [letter] (1981) (2)
Sleep: Normal and Deranged Function (1982) (2)
Electroencephalographic investigation in acute drug poisoning. (1970) (2)
Diurnal pattern of protein and energy metabolism in man: some doubts. (1981) (2)
Basis of Dreams (1969) (2)
Pharmacology of the states of alertness. Proceedings of the satellite symposium of the 7th International Congress of Pharmacology, Montpellier, 24-25 July 1978. (1978) (2)
Drug research and human sleep. (2003) (2)
Some physiological effects of psychotropic drugs. (1976) (2)
The Clinical Use of Dreams (1963) (1)
BEHAVIOUR THERAPY IN TRANSVESTISM (1961) (1)
Triazolam and platelet-aggregating factor (1992) (1)
Summary of Congress (1973) (1)
EEG, Sleep and Dependence Studies of Hypnotics (1973) (1)
Bedtime reading (1989) (1)
Comparisons of Hypnotic Drugs (1970) (1)
Advertisements referring to unpublished data (1982) (1)
6. PSYCHOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY (1964) (1)
Sleep and Sleep Deprivation (1969) (1)
Sexual disinhibition with l-tryptophan. (1976) (1)
Sleep, natural and unnatural. (1969) (1)
Advances in Sleep Research vol. 2 (1977) (1)
The Functions of Sleep. Ernest L. Hartmann. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 1973. x, 198 pp., illus. Cloth, $8.50; paper, $2.95 (1974) (1)
Review articles : Sleep helps tissue renewal (1987) (1)
Hypnotic drugs for 1984. (1984) (1)
The hypnotic business (2020) (1)
Sleep as a provoked response. (1962) (1)
Studies in human sleep. (1976) (1)
Nitrazepam, human sleep and growth hormone (GH) secretion (1976) (1)
Attempted Suicide and the National Health Service (1967) (1)
Deliberate re-hypnotization after the patient's refusal. (1959) (1)
Sleep: no peace for the worried. (1980) (1)
Deprivation of Parents During Childhood (1958) (1)
Limiting prescribable NHS drugs (1984) (1)
Sleep Disturbance and Hypnotic Drug Dependence. Edited by A. D. Clift. Amsterdam: Excerpta Medica. 1975. Pp xi+352. Price $35.95. (1976) (0)
MISCELLANEOUS: Foundations of Abnormal Psychology. (1969) (0)
Paradoxical Sleep (1968) (0)
DREAMS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA: The Psychodynamic Implications of the Physiological Studies on Dreams. (1971) (0)
The volume is confined to counselling in the field (2006) (0)
Conditioning the Patient (1965) (0)
Withdrawal symptoms and rebound anxiety after six week course of diazepam (1985) (0)
The effect of trimeprazine (Vallergan) on scratching (1977) (0)
Acupuncture analgesia: an experimental investigation D. Stewart, J. Thomson and I. Oswald, Brit. med. J., 1 (1977) 67–70 (1979) (0)
Why do we sleep? (1976) (0)
Studies with modern hypnotics (1984) (0)
Conditioning and Learning (1962) (0)
MOLECULAR NEUROPSYCHOLOGY: Mind as a Tissue. (1969) (0)
An unusual case of loss of consciousness. (1970) (0)
6. SLEEP, DREAMS AND HYPNOSIS (1968) (0)
A Synopsis of Psychiatry (1983) (0)
“...Sleep by Any Stealth” (1970) (0)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN – Pharmacology of Sleep (1974) (0)
Thoughts on Dreams (1969) (0)
Sleep and Rhythmic Stimulation (1960) (0)
Index to Volumes 118 and 119, 1971 (1971) (0)
BRIEF REVIEWS: The Behavioural Treatment of Psychotic Illness. (1975) (0)
Editorial: Sleep research and mental illness. (1975) (0)
Cortical Function During Human Sleep (2008) (0)
A Correction (1963) (0)
4. PHYSIOLOGY AND GENERAL MEDICINE (1966) (0)
The physiological basis of human sleep. (1962) (0)
Behaviour Therapy (1965) (0)
5. SLEEP AND DREAMS (1968) (0)
DREAMS: Dream Power. (1972) (0)
Sleep mechanisms and some clinical conditions. (1962) (0)
Sleep, dreaming and drugs. (1969) (0)
[Sleep. A study in man]. (1976) (0)
3. HOSPITAL AND SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY (1964) (0)
The decline of cerebral vigilance. (1962) (0)
6. SLEEP, DREAMS AND HYPNOSIS: Sleep. (1968) (0)
The benefits of ultrasounds in cervical arthrosis (2008) (0)
Clinical Aspects of Steep and Sleep Disturbance. Edited by Terrence L. Riley. Sevenoaks: The Butterworth Group, 1985. Pp. 243. £35.00. (1985) (0)
4. PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY: Insight Books. (1964) (0)
Scared to Death? (1965) (0)
Immunity and nutrition: development, markers, and effect of the nutrition. (2013) (0)
Comparison of diazepam and buspirone (1989) (0)
Readings in Psychology (1964) (0)
NIGHTMARES: Nightmares and Human Conflict. (1971) (0)
Hypnotic benzodiazepines (1986) (0)
Medical equipment for expeditions. (1981) (0)
Some physiological functions. (1962) (0)
PSYCHOSOMATIC Psychological Aspects of the Care of Hospitalized Patients. (1973) (0)
RE-ED'S OF THE FUTURE (1970) (0)
Hypnotic activity of lormetazepam and camazepam. (1983) (0)
Isolation (1965) (0)
[Sleep: its nature and methods of measurement]. (1984) (0)
Sleep and wakefulness (1965) (0)
Persecution of academics in Turkey (1984) (0)
Triazolam. Small studies miss the difference. (1993) (0)
THE SLEEPING BRAIN (1974) (0)
Advances in Sleep Research (1976) (0)
Bed-time stories (1988) (0)
Sleep (1964) (0)
Attention and imagery. (1962) (0)
A study concerning the efficiency knee's ultrasounds therapy arthrosis (2008) (0)
Abnormal Sleep after Withdrawal of Hypnotic Drugs (1966) (0)
Barbiturate hypnotics (1979) (0)
Drugs for poor sleepers? (1986) (0)
4. PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY (1964) (0)
3. DEVIATION AND DELINQUENCY (1965) (0)
Two Kinds of Unconsciousness (1963) (0)
Oswald Is Sleep Related to Synthetic Purpose? 225 (2016) (0)
Psychopathology and Psychiatry (1963) (0)
Insomnia — Psychological Assessment and Management By Charles M. Morin New York: Guilford Press. 1993. 238 pp. US $24.25. (1995) (0)
[The how and why of sedatives]. (1979) (0)
Suicide attempts: validation of the data. (1972) (0)
Personal View (1968) (0)
The physiological basis of sleep. (1962) (0)
1. PSYCHOLOGY: Perception and the Conditioned Reflex. (1965) (0)
Family Doctor Booklets (1971) (0)
Letter to editor (0)
Sleep and consciousness. (1962) (0)
[Triazolam is different: it is a PAF antagonist]. (1992) (0)
Protein synthesis and breakdown after vaccination. (1980) (0)
Reaction-time and Menstruation (1963) (0)
Status and Sterilization (1974) (0)
Emigrant British Doctors (1967) (0)
Serum prolactin periodicity. (1972) (0)
Personal View (1970) (0)
MISCELLANEOUS: Sleeping and Dreaming. (1972) (0)
Personal View (1969) (0)
Russian Brain Research (1964) (0)
Deprivation of parents during childhood, its frequency in some contemporary young service men. (1958) (0)
E.E.G. signs of death. (1968) (0)
Symptoms that depress the doctor. Insomnia. (1984) (0)
Cimetidine and human sleep. (1981) (0)
Sleep and a Bedtime Beverage (1972) (0)

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