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Featuring: Giulio Tononi, Professor, UW-Madison Department of Psychiatry
Date: June 23, 2015
Time: 11:15 a.m.–1 p.m.
Location: UW Arboretum, 1207 Seminole Highway, Madison, WI
Sleep is a pervasive, universal, and fundamental behavior: it occupies a third of our lives; it is present in every animal species where it has been studied; even partial deprivation of sleep has serious consequences for cognition, mood, and health. All available evidence indicates that sleep is “of the brain, by the brain, and for the brain.” However, despite decades of intensive research, the mechanisms and functions of sleep remain unclear. Join Dr. Tononi as he explains how his laboratories use a combination of approaches – from fly genetics to computer simulations – to comprehend what sleep is for.