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2024-25 MINS "Year of Sleep Research"
Save the date!April 30, 2025
MINS Annual Symposium/CSI Research Retreat
CSI Seminar Series
March 27, 2025, 12-1 pm
Katherine M. Sharkey, MD, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Gender Equity, Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University
"Past Mom’s Bedtime: Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Expectant and New Parents"
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Podcast with Mathias Basner: How noise affects Sleep and Health. |
Latest News
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Sleep disorders linked to aortic stenosis
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
In a recent article, Nadim El Jamal, Thomas Brooks, Carsten Skarke, and Garrett Fitzgerald report that any sleep disorder is associated with increased risk of aortic stenosis (heart valve failure) which was partially explained by dyslipidemia.
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How and why common sleep "remedies" may not work
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
For insomnia, remedies that purportedly facilitate sleep may not be effective or cause more harm than good. Phil Gehrman, PhD, comments in Everyday Health on effectiveness of sleep medications and cautions that they are intended to be used on a short-term basis and some people can develop a dependency on them if they are misused.
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Training the clock to spring forward: how to adjust to daylight savings time
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Indira Gurubhagavatula, M.D., M.P.H., comments for NPR on the effects of the daylight savings transition on sleep, and emphasizes the importance of morning light for helping to stay alert throughout the day.
CSI Research Meeting
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Monday, April 7, 2025
4-5 pm
Olivia Larson (Gehrman Lab): "No added benefit of targeted memory reactivation during naps on negative memory rescripting"
Jeffrey Rosa (Kayser Lab): "Investigating a developmental role for mitochondrial complex I in regulating early life sleep"
Location: SCTR 10-146AB