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Feb. 08, 2013
Science of Slumber: How Sleep Affects Your Memory
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We spend a lot of time sleeping (roughly one-third of our lives, according to the National Institutes of Health). But how much downtime do our brains really need? Experts discuss the links between sleep, memory, and cognition, and why our sleep patterns change as we age.
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Produced by Denise Chow, Associate Producer
Guests
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Robert Stickgold
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Director, Center for Sleep and Cognition
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts -
Ken Paller
Professor, Brain, Behavior and Cognition
Department of Psychology
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois -
Matthew Walker
Associate Professor
Principal Investigator, Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory
Department of Psychology
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California -
David Dinges
Director, Unit for Experimental Psychiatry
Chief, Division of Sleep and Chronobiology
Department of Psychiatry
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
Michael Silber, M.B., Ch.B.
Past president, American Academy of Sleep Medicine
Professor, Neurology
Co-director, The Center for Sleep Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota



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