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Matthew Walker

Matthew Walker, Ph.D., is a professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and serves as the Director of the Center for Human Sleep Science.\\xa0

Walker\'s research examines the impact of sleep on human health and disease. One area of interest focuses on identifying "vulnerability windows" during a person\'s life that make them more susceptible to amyloid-beta deposition from loss of slow wave sleep and, subsequently, Alzheimer\'s disease later in life.

Dr. Walker earned his undergraduate degree in neuroscience from the University of Nottingham, UK, and his Ph.D. in neurophysiology from the Medical Research Council, London, UK. He is the author of the New York Times best-selling book Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams.

In this episode, we discuss:

• (00:00)\\xa0Introduction
• (08:47)\\xa0Sleep boosts learning
• (21:21)\\xa0Manipulating sleep to enhance learning
• (26:28)\\xa0REM sleep, dreams, and memory encoding
• (34:46)\\xa0Sleep deprivation causes loneliness
• (46:36)\\xa0Sleep is disturbed in all neuropsychiatric conditions
• (52:30)\\xa0Bright light exposure\\xa0
• (01:00:02)\\xa0How much sleep is enough?
• (01:10:21)\\xa0Inflammation triggers sleep
• (01:26:16)\\xa0Bidirectional relationship between poor sleep and Alzheimer\'s disease
• (01:35:12)\\xa0Deep sleep deprivation increases beta-amyloid
• (01:41:40)\\xa0Preventing dementia
• (01:48:44)\\xa0Sleep tracking technology
• (01:56:25)\\xa0Four Pillars of Sleep
• (02:06:02)\\xa0Metabolism and microbiome
• (02:23:34)\\xa0Tips for better sleep

If you\\u2019re interested in learning more, you can read the full show notes here.

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