CSRN Archives
Dr. Allan Pack is interviewed on ABC World News Tonight on new study on "short sleeper" gene.
Penn Sleep Psychologist Dr. Phil Gehrman is quoted in USA Today, in article on rare sleep disorder.
In Sleep Medicine Reviews, Dr. Jini Naidoo provides new evidence that modest sleep deprivation in aging induces cellular stress. Understanding the pathways activated by sleep loss and the mechanisms by which they occur will allow the development of therapies to protect the brain in sleep disorders including those associated with aging.
Sleep Center Annual Report 2009
Research Retreat 2009; Research Retreat Award Winners
Dr. Allan Pack discusses "The Gears of the Sleep Clock" in this issue of The Scientist.
CSRN researchers show why sleep is needed to form memories. Drs. Marcos Frank and Sara Aton describe for the first time in Neuron how cellular changes in the sleeping brain promote the formation of memories.
2008
Dr. Allan I. Pack named the first John L. Miclot Professor of Medicine.
Visit ebriefing on The Sandman’s Secrets: Genetics and Gene Expression in Sleep Regulation held at the New York Academy of Sciences June 2008.
Sleep Center Annual Report 2008
CSRN researchers identify sleep-promoting gene in Science. Also see Science's NewsFocus which gives an update on molecular sleep research.
Dr. Jini Naidoo shows in the Journal of Neuroscience that the unfolded protein response, an adpative response to stress due to sleep deprivation, is impaired in the brains of older mice. (more...).
Dr. Sigrid Veasey shows in Journal of Neuroscience that severely injured motoneurons from sleep apnea can be treated.
In Nature, Dr. David Raizen et al show worms have a sleep-like state .