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...

• sleep

Welcome and Introduction

• sleep

Welcome and Introduction

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.

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

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...

• 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...

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....

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

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...

• 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...

A conversation with Amita Sehgal

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

For a continuation of this discussion see Sleepless at the...

• 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...

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...