NLS 125: How To Sleep Less & Get More Done With Sara C. Mednick
b'Professor Sara C. Mednick is a cognitive neuroscientist at the\\xa0University of California, Irvine\\xa0and author of\\xa0The Hidden Power of the Downstate\\xa0(Hachette Go!, pub date: April, 2022) and\\xa0Take a Nap! Change Your Life.\\xa0(Workman). She is passionate about understanding how the brain works through her research into sleep and the autonomic nervous system. Dr. Mednick\\u2019s seven-bedroom sleep lab works literally around-the-clock to discover methods for boosting cognition by napping, stimulating the brain with electricity, sound and light, and pharmacology. Her lab also investigates how the menstrual cycle and aging affect the brain. Her science has been continuously federally funded (National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation, Department of Defense Office of Naval Research, DARPA).
Dr. Mednick was awarded the Office Naval Research\\xa0Young Investigator Award\\xa0in 2015. Her research findings have been published in such leading scientific journals as Nature Neuroscience and The Proceedings from the National Academy of Science, and covered by all major media outlets. She received a BA from\\xa0Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, in Drama/Dance. After college, her experience working in the psychiatry department at Bellevue Hospital in New York, inspired her to study the brain and how to make humans smarter through better sleep. She received a PhD in Psychology from\\xa0Harvard University, and then completed a postdoc at the\\xa0Salk Institute for Biological Studies\\xa0and\\xa0UC San Diego. She resides in San Diego, CA.
Please enjoy my conversation with Sara Mednick.
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