Frank Marcos G
Department of Translational Medicine and Physiology, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Washington State University, 412 East Spokane Falls Boulevard, Spokane, WA 99202, USA; Gleason Institute for Neuroscience, Washington State University, Spokane, WA, USA.
Sleep Med Clin. 2025 Mar;20(1):19-24. doi: 10.1016/j.jsmc.2024.10.005. Epub 2024 Nov 13.
Sleep is considered to be ubiquitous in the animal kingdom. Scientists in part believe this because sleep is increasingly defined solely by behavioral measures. This has resulted in an astonishing expansion of species reported to sleep. But have we gone too far? Have scientists jumped the shark? This idiom refers to when an idea has exhausted its core intent and creates ideas that are discordant with its original purpose. In this commentary, I discuss what I see as an emerging problem in how we define sleep and the attendant implications.
睡眠被认为在动物王国中无处不在。科学家们部分地认为是这样，因为睡眠越来越仅由行为测量来定义。这导致了据报道有睡眠行为的物种数量惊人地增加。但我们是否做得太过了？科学家们是否已经偏离了主题？这个习语指的是当一个想法已经耗尽其核心意图并产生与其原始目的不一致的想法时。在这篇评论中，我讨论了我所认为的在我们如何定义睡眠以及随之而来的影响方面出现的一个问题。
