WHO:	Sean P. A. Drummond, Ph.D. , Associate Professor of PsychiatryUniversity of California at San DiegoVA San Diego Healthcare System
TOPIC:	"The Effects of Sleep Loss on Brain Function as Measured with Functional MRI "
ABSTRACT:	Dr. Drummond first became fascinated with sleep research when he volunteered as an undergraduate research assistant in the Sleep Research Laboratory at the University of Arizona, under the direction of Richard Bootzin, PhD and Michael Perlis, PhD (then a graduate student). After college, he worked with Sarah Mosko, PhD at UC Irvine Medical Center investigating mother-infant co-sleeping. For graduate school, he attended the SDSU-UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, where he worked with J. Christian Gillin, MD. He completed his Predoctoral Internship at the Tucson VA hospital and then returned to UCSD as a Postdoctoral Fellow working with Gregory G. Brown PhD. He joined the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry in October 2002. His research focuses largely on the effects of sleep loss on brain function. "Sleep loss" is typically imposed experimentally, although he also has an interest in both natural and pathological sleep loss (e.g., from sleep or psychiatric) disorders, as well as differences in habitual sleep need. "Brain function" in our studies is measured through both cognitive performance and functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI). In addition to the effects of sleep loss, he is also interested in sleepiness countermeasures (including sleep itself!) Finally, he also has an interest in the interaction between sleep and substances of abuse.Ã
WHEN:	1/14/2004 9:00:00 AM
WHERE:	Med Center G-9425

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