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Paper Discussed: Incorporation of complex narratives into dreaming  in SLEEP Help us improve: Please take a moment to complete a brief (< 5 minutes) survey about the podcast: Podcast Feedback Survey (https://tinyurl.com/4dd4zwsj)! Other studies mentioned: Nightly dynamics of emotional content in dreams

Paper Discussed: Hormonal contraceptives impair psychomotor vigilance task performance under sleep deprivation with stress induction in Sleep Advances Help us improve: Please take a moment to complete a brief (< 5 minutes) survey about the podcast: Podcast Feedback Survey (https://tinyurl.com/4dd4zwsj)! Other studies mentioned:  Hormonal contraceptives and women’s sleep health: A systematic rev...

Guest Interviews: Lindsey Mooney, PhD: Development of the Hippocampus in Preschool-Age Children in Relation to Daytime and Nighttime Sleep Jasmine Niazi: Wakefulness, Wellness, & Worship: A Systematic Review of Ramadan’s Impact on Sleep and Health in Muslim Adolescents and Young Adults Emma Tussey: Investigating Mechanisms in the Sleep-Alcohol Relationship: An Ecological Momentary Assessment A...

Guest Interviews: Anna Pockrass: Can we use Apple Watches to Collect Actigraphy Data in Children? Karolina Rusin: Irregular Sleep Impairs Verbal and Memory Abilities in Early Childhood Jessica Love: Validation of the Hypersomnia Severity Index in Hypersomnolence Disorder  Riya Mirchandaney: The Rhythms in the Blues: Modeling and Modulating Diurnal Positive Affect Rhythms Priscilla Amofa-Ho, PhD: M...

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More Information on the Sleep Research Society Small Research Grant Award: https://sleepresearchsociety.org/awards/small-research-grant-program/ Podcast Survey Link Guest Award Winners and Projects: (03:14) Dr. Ashley Ingiosi, PhD: The role of astroglial subtypes in sleep expression and drive (19:36) Dr. Kat Kennedy, PhD: The Mind and Appetite After Midnight (36:16) Jamie Walker: The Association B...

More Information on the Sleep Research Society Small Research Grant Award: https://sleepresearchsociety.org/awards/small-research-grant-program/ Podcast Survey Link Guest Award Winners and Projects: (06:17) Emily Goldberg: Sleep function in post-stroke aphasia – measurement, prevalence, and impact on recovery (27:08) Dr. Jeremy Bigalke, PhD: Influence of Evening Stress on Sympathetic Activity and...

Manuscript Link:  Brief sleep disruption alters synaptic structures among hippocampal and neocortical somatostatin-expressing interneurons Podcast Survey Link   Hope you enjoy!

Manuscript: Davidson et al., 2025. Is it time to revisit the scoring of slow wave (N3) sleep?   Editorial: Haack, 2025. The long-lasting impact of male-based research on female physiology - also true for slow wave sleep   

Manuscript: Effects of time-restricted eating on actigraphy-derived sleep parameters: post hoc analysis of a randomized, isocaloric feeding study Guest: Dr. Daisy Duan, MD

Guest Interviews: Brook Shafer, PhD: Lower Sleep Regularity Is Associated with Faster Time to Clinical Event in Adults with Heart Failure Steven Carlson, MS: Delayed or Displaced: The Role of Circadian Timing in Bedtime Procrastination Benjamin Menarchek, MS: The Sleep-Dependent Regulation of the E/I Ratio Emerges During the Critical Period of the Primary Visual Cortex Allison Ikeda, MD, MS: Signi...

Link To Manuscript Article: Childhood adversity and adolescent epigenetic age acceleration: the role of adolescent sleep health

Link to Manuscript Article: T2 MRI visible perivascular spaces in Parkinson’s disease: clinical significance and association with polysomnography measured sleep

Link to Manuscript Article: Device-measured weekend catch-up sleep, mortality, and cardiovascular disease incidence in adults  

Link to Manuscript Article: Development of a mindfulness-based intervention for narcolepsy: a feasibility study

Link to Manuscript Article: Associations of gut microbiome richness and diversity with objective and subjective sleep measures in a population sample

Episode Summary:   In this month’s episode Jesse Cook (Host) sits down with Dr. Allan Pack, M.B.Ch. B., Ph. D., FRCP, current Editor-in-Chief of the Sleep journal, to discuss many topics related to the journal broadly. including elements like its history, scope, mission, recent changes, and future intentions. Additionally, we cover topics related to the editorial ecosystem, the post-submission pro...

Episode Summary:   In this month’s episode Jesse Cook (Host) sits down with Dr. Kiran Ravindran, PhD to discuss the recently published paper in the journal SLEEP by Dr. Ravindran and colleagues that unpacks an investigation evaluating the capabilities of two commercially available contactless monitoring devices as tools to capture nocturnal and daytime sleep periods and other characteristics, rela...

Episode Summary:   In this month’s episode Jesse Cook (Host) sits down with Dr. Hailey Meaklim, PhD, DBSM to discuss the recently published paper in the journal SLEEP by Dr. Meaklim and colleagues that evaluated the implementation of a large-scale roll-out of the Sleep Psychology Workshop, a previously validated, behavioral sleep medicine program, into graduate psychology programs across Victoria,...