Can sleeping on a problem create overnight insights? Will naps make you smarter? Are you getting enough? How much IS enough? For the answers to these and other pillow problems, join a group of wide-awake researchers for a conversation on the science of sleep.

Richard McNally, Terry Sejnowski, Susan Blackmore

• Memory,
• consciousness,
• skeptics,
• sleep

Richard McNally, Harvard University"In Search of Memory - True, False, Remembered, Repressed, Recovered"Terry Sejnowski, Salk...

• sleep

Welcome and Introduction

• sleep

Welcome and IntroductionBooks by Terrence Sejnowski: Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How...

The Basics

• sleep

What is sleep? Jerry Siegel defines and examines the behavioral criteria of sleep.

The Basics

• sleep,
• sleep apnea

Clinical research of sleep and obstructive sleep apnea.

The Basics

• alertness,
• performance,
• sleep

Determinants of alertness and performance in relation to sleep.

The Basics

• biomarkers,
• sleep

Sleepiness and different biomarkers to study it.

Sleep Across Species

• sleep,
• sleep phylogeny

Sleep phylogeny: clues and challenges for theories of sleep function. How does sleep vary across species and what can this tell us about general...

Sleep Across Species

• invertebrate,
• sleep

Sleep in invertebrates.

Sleep Across Species

• circadian rhythm,
• sleep

Circadian control of activity-rest cycle in rodents.

The Signatures of Sleep

• Learning,
• Memory Consolidation,
• sleep

The role of sleep in learning and memory consolidatioin.

Sleep Across Species

• sleep

Sleep on the brain of birds and men.

The Signatures of Sleep

• sleep

Will naps make you smarter, healthier, happier?

The Signatures of Sleep

• sleep,
• sleep replay

Replay/reactivation during sleep.Books by Terrence Sejnowski: Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals...

The Signatures of Sleep

• Learning,
• Memory Consolidation,
• brain plasticity,
• sleep

The connection between sleep and brain plasticity (learning and memory consolidation).

Influences on Sleep Behavior

• sleep,
• wakefulness

What sets the duration of wakefulness that we can sustain?

Influences on Sleep Behavior

• genetics,
• sleep

Sleep genes- how do our genes affect our behavior?

Influences on Sleep Behavior

• arousal,
• sleep

Arousal and hyperarousal: the hypocretin connection.

Influences on Sleep Behavior

• circadian rhythms,
• sleep

The impact of circadian rhythms and light on sleep.

Influences on Sleep Behavior

• sleep

Catching Up On Sleep

• sleep

How much should we sleep?

Catching Up On Sleep

• Heart Disease,
• sleep

Naps and coronary heart disease.

Catching Up On Sleep

• narcolepsy,
• parasomnia,
• sleep

Narcolepsy and parasomnias and how they relate to brain activation.

Catching Up On Sleep

• napping,
• sleep

Napping and recovery.

Why Do We Sleep?

• sleep

The enigma of sleep function.

Why Do We Sleep?

• sleep,
• synaptic homeostasis

Sleep and synaptic homeostasis.

• sleep

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

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...

Continuation of the conversation with Amita Sehgal

• Diet,
• Drosophila,
• Eating Habits,
• Jet Lag,
• Sleep Deprivation,
• Suprachiasmatic Nucleus,
• sleep

Amita Sehgal is a professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and Howard Hughes Institute...

Sleep Aging

• Aging,
• Calorie Restriction,
• Drosophila,
• Functional Senescence,
• Immune system,
• Life span,
• Restoration,
• Stem Cells,
• sleep

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

• Aging,
• Caloric restriction,
• Diet,
• Drosophila,
• Obesity,
• Stem Cells,
• TOR,
• Technology,
• sleep

Marc Tatar is a Professor of Biology at Brown University. His research is focused on understanding the genetics, mechanisms and the evolution of...

Charles Czeisler

• Boston Celtics,
• drowsy driving,
• sleep,
• sleep apnea,
• sleep cycle

Charles Czeisler discusses his work improving the  Boston Celtics' sleep cycles, when students school should start based on age, sleep...