Waking Up To Sleep
By Doug Ramsey, dramsey@ucsd.edu
San Diego, CA, February 21, 2007 -- The UCSD Division of Calit2 recently co-sponsored a forum on the science of sleep, organized by The Science Network at the Salk Institute. The "Waking Up to Sleep" conference Feb. 9-10 featured a stellar cast of some of the world's leading researchers in areas from cognitive science to neuromedicine. They tackled a wide range of questions, including: What's the link between overeating and undersleeping? Will naps make you smarter? How many sleep states are there? And, ultimately, Why do we sleep at all? All of the talks are now archived for on-demand viewing. To watch individual streaming video clips, click on the image or video link below [Real player and broadband connection required].
| Introduction | Waking Up to Sleep | |
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| Session 1 | The Basics: A Clinical Primer | |
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Jerry Siegel
UCLA
Length: 20:56 [video] |
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Mark Eric Dyken
University of Iowa Length: 20:11 [video]
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Paul Shaw
Washington University, St. Louis
Length: 20:22 [video] |
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| Session 2 | Sleep Across Species | |
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Jerry Siegel
UCLA
Length: 35:47 [video] |
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Ralph Greenspan
The Neurosciences Institute
Length: 17:11 [video] |
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Satchin Panda
The Salk Institute
Length: 12:36 [video]
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Philip Low
Salk Institute/ UCSD
Length: 23:44 [video] |
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| Session 3 | The Signatures of Sleep | |
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Robert Stickgold
Harvard Medical School
Length: 30:13 [video] |
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Sara Mednick
UCSD
Length: 30:15 [video] |
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Terry Sejnowski
Salk Institute/ UCSD
Length: 25:00 [video] |
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Paul Shaw
Washington University, St. Louis
Length: 21:02 [video]
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| Session 4 | Influences on Sleep Behavior: From Genes to Environment | |
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Allan Pack
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Length: 25:14 [video] |
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Ralph Greenspan
The Neurosciences Institute
Length: 14:36 [video] |
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Luis de Lecea
Stanford School of Medicine
Length: 22:15 [video]
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Charles Czeisler
Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Length: 32:10 [video] |
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David Dinges
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Length: 23:20 [video] |
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| Session 5 | Catching Up On Sleep | |
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Dan Kripke
UCSD
Length: 33:10 [video]
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Sara Mednick
UCSD
Length: 12:28 [video] |
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Mark Eric Dyken
University of Iowa Length: 32:32 [video]
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David Dinges
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Length: 30:02 [video] |
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| Session 5 | Why Do We Sleep? | |
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Giulio Tononi
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Length: 46:09 [video] |
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Robert Stickgold
Harvard Medical School
Length: 9:10 [video] |
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Panel Discussion
Various
Length: 1:05:54 [video] |
The conference was sponsored by the ResMed Foundation and the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind at UCSD, and was produced by The Science Network in association with the Crick-Jacobs Center for Theoretical and Computational Biology at Salk, CONNECT and Calit2.
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