moderated by Roger Bingham

• Schools,
• Science of Educating,
• Science of Learning,
• Science of Teaching,
• Social Policy,
• Town Hall Meeting,
• neuroscience

Books by Terrence Sejnowski: Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are,...

A conversation with Lord Julian Hunt

• Newton,
• Social Policy,
• cities,
• climate change,
• education,
• natural disaster,
• weather

Filmed at Calit2 Studios at UC San Diego. *Do not adjust your set! Due to technical difficulties some of the coloring is off in this video -...

A conversation with Sara Mednick

• Caffeine,
• Meditation,
• REM,
• Remote Associates Task,
• School Policy,
• Sleep Deprivation,
• Social Policy,
• Starbucks,
• education,
• napping,
• sleep

Sara Mednick is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. Her research is focused on...

• Biological Clock,
• Biology,
• Caffeine,
• Chronobiology,
• Diagnostics,
• Sleep Deprivation,
• Social Policy,
• circadian rhythm,
• genetics,
• sleep

Tom Roth is the Director of the Sleep Disorders and Research Center at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at...

A conversation with Paul Shaw

• Consolidation,
• Gene Expression,
• Insomnia,
• Memory,
• Phenotype,
• Plasticity,
• Sleep Deprivation,
• Social Policy,
• Synapses,
• sleep

Paul Shaw is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. His research is...

• Autoimmunity,
• Hypocretins,
• Light Activated Channels,
• Neurons,
• Neurotransmitters,
• Optogenetics,
• Sleep Deprivation,
• Social Policy,
• genetics,
• narcolepsy,
• sleep

Luis de Lecea is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stanford School of Medicine. His research is focused...

• Cetaceans,
• Cortex,
• Definition of Sleep,
• Dolphins,
• EEG,
• Mammalian Sleep,
• Mortality,
• Sleep Deprivation,
• Social Policy,
• sleep

Jerome Siegel is Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Chief of Neurobiology Research at the University of California, Los Angeles...

• Gene Expression,
• Industrialization,
• Shift Work,
• Sleep Deprivation,
• Sleep Function,
• Social Policy,
• Society,
• narcolepsy,
• sleep

Mark Eric Dyken is Associate Professor and Director of the Sleep Disorders Center, Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship Program and Sleep...

• Behavior,
• Ethics,
• Evolution,
• Obesity,
• Sleep Deprivation,
• Social Policy,
• education,
• health,
• sleep

David Dinges is a Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and Chief of the Division of Sleep and Chronobiology at the University of Pennsylvania School...

A conversation with Chiara Cirelli

• Consolidation,
• Downscaling,
• Energy,
• Memory,
• Pruning,
• Sleep Deprivation,
• Sleep Function,
• Social Policy,
• Synapse,
• sleep

Chiara Cirelli is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Medicine. Her research is...

• Adequate Sleep,
• Children,
• Chronobiology,
• Neurobiology,
• Residency,
• Sleep Deprivation,
• Social Policy,
• circadian rhythm,
• education,
• health,
• sleep

Charles Czeisler is the Baldino Professor of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief and Senior Physician in the Division of Sleep Medicine...

A conversation with Amita Sehgal

• Sleep Deprivation,
• Social Policy,
• circadian rhythm,
• education,
• literacy,
• sleep

For a continuation of this discussion see Sleepless at the Salk.Amita Sehgal is a professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of...

• Biological Clock,
• Gene Cycle,
• Sleep Deprivation,
• Social Policy,
• circadian rhythm,
• education,
• genetics,
• narcolepsy,
• sleep

Allan Pack is the John Miclot Professor in the Department of Medicine and Director of the Center for Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology at the...

• Dynamics,
• Funding,
• Learning,
• Marketing,
• School,
• Social Policy,
• Society,
• Statistics,
• Time,
• education,
• neuroscience

Brains R Us brings together researchers, educators, policymakers, parents, and students in a town hall forum to discuss the state of the science of...