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...There are tensions in the field, but "it's starting to break out of its malaise," says Robert Stickgold, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School's Center for Sleep and Cognition. Recently, scientists have abandoned stagnant theories of dreaming and postulated new and intriguing ones, with experiments underway in various parts of the world aimed at establishing the function of our nightly hallucinations. If recent work suggests anything, it's that there is such a function, or more than one, and that dreams aren't just neural waste. They may improve the quality of our sleep. They...
...Your mother was right,” a Harvard Medical School professor told undergraduates last night. “If you don’t sleep enough, you’ll get dumb, sick, and fat.” Associate Professor of Psychiatry Robert A. Stickgold was speaking in Boylston Hall last night as part of a panel assembled by the Community Health Initiative to tell notoriously sleep-deprived Harvard students about the importance of a good night’s sleep. The panel, composed of sleep experts from the medical school, started out with an issue particularly close...
...don’t have a clue what causes consciousness,” says Associate Professor of Psychiatry Robert A. Stickgold...
...months, we crisscrossed the country, interviewing sleep experts, getting tested in sleep labs and even flying a 747 simulator after being awake for 30 hours. I got my first clue that I might be more sleep deprived than I thought in a lab run by Robert Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School...
...should sound familiar: eight hours of sleep a night for adults and at least an hour more for adolescents. Yet 71% of American adults and 85% of teens do not get the suggested amount, to the detriment of body and mind. "Sleep is sort of like food," says Robert Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School. But, he adds, there's one important difference: "You can be quite starved and still alive, and I think we appreciate how horrible that must be. But many of us live on the edge of sleep starvation and just accept...