William C. Dement MD PhD (born 1928), is a pioneering US sleep researcher, and founder of the Sleep Research Center, the world's first sleep laboratory, at Stanford University. He is a leading authority on sleep, sleep deprivation, and the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and narcolepsy.
Penelope Przekop is the author of Aberrations: A Novel (Emerald/Greenleaf) and Six Sigma for Business Excellence (McGraw-Hill). On her blog, Aberration Nation, she interviews people with various mental, physical, and situational aberrations. Members of the Aberration Nation are heros who are stepping out to share how the so-called negatives in life ultimately brought them to new heights...
