Sleep Health (Audio)

UC San Diego Associate Professor of Bioengineering Todd Coleman shares his quest to develop health monitoring tattoos that hold promise to revolutionize healthcare and make medicine less invasive. Learn about the potential these technologies have for treating, monitoring, and diagnosing sleep apnea, delirium, GI issues and more. Series: "Stein Institute for Research on Aging" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 30524]

Dr. Elissaios Karageorgio explains the link between broken sleep patterns that are characteristic of insomnia and dementia. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 31201]

Those with sleep disorders often fail to get enough recuperative sleep, and suffer some unpleasant and potentially dangerous consequences. Dr. Sean Drummond describes the ways in which sleepiness can interfere with your life. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 31243]

Dr. Rochelle Zak speaks on the characteristics of narcolepsy, and the disorder’s accidental discovery by scientists investigating obesity. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 31199]

Much is still unknown in the arena of sleep study, and even less is well understood by the average person. Join Dr. Sean Drummond as he explains that sleep is actually a combination of different types of consciousness. In addition, he describes the various benefits of sleep as well as its related mysteries. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 31242]

Dr. Rochelle Zak talks about what causes us to sleep, and why it is sometimes difficult to fall asleep even when we feel very tired. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 31198]

Dr. Elissaios Karageorgiou explains that what many people may consider to be a good night’s sleep could actually be detrimental, and that it is sometimes better to get too little sleep than too much. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 31200]

Dr. Rochelle Zak takes us through the cyclical patterns of sleep, explains the various stages of sleep, and discusses how REM sleep is actually rather similar to waking life. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 31197]

Do we really need to sleep? Dr. Thomas Neylan looks at intrinsic sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and insomnia and what to do if they affect you. Dr. Elissaios Karageorgio looks at how aging affects sleep and Dr. Rochelle Zak looks at the neurophysiology of sleep. Series: "Mini Medical School for the Public" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 30139]

Waking up in the morning still tired? Sleep apnea could be the culprit. Robert Owens, MD joins our host David Granet, MD to find out how sleep apnea affects the body, how it is diagnosed, and new treatments on the horizon. Series: "Health Matters" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 30157]

As we age it becomes more difficult to get a good night’s sleep. Failure to get adequate sleep not only affects our health but also poses a danger to society by contributing to traffic and industrial accidents. Some sleep disorders can even be life threatening. Jose S. Loredo, MD, MS, MPH, FCCP, professor of clinical medicine and medical director of the UC San Diego Sleep Medicine Center and VA Pulmonary Sleep Disorders Laboratory, discusses how these disorders can be managed and treated. Series: "Stein Institute for Research on Aging" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 26070]

The connection between poor sleep, memory loss and brain deterioration as we grow older has been elusive. But for the first time, scientists at UC Berkeley have found a link between these hallmark maladies of old age. Their discovery opens the door to boosting the quality of sleep in elderly people to improve memory. Series: "UCTV Prime cuts" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 24918]

The CDC has declared insufficient sleep to be a national health epidemic. Why are we not getting enough and how can we change our behaviors? Sean P.A. Drummond, PhD, director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program and Cognitive Behavioral Interventions Program in the VA San Diego Healthcare System, joins host Dr. David Granet to discuss the ramifications of insufficient sleep and ways to improve your sleep health. Series: "Health Matters" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25617]

Stephanie Greer, a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley explores the role of sleep in reward processing and decision-making (including food decisions) using human neuroimaging techniques. Series: "UCSF Consortium for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment" [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 24582]

Sleep deprivation takes a huge toll on society. Kathryn Lee, UCSF School of Nursing, explores sleep, fatigue, and circadian rhythms particularly in women. Series: "Mini Medical School for the Public" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 24632]

Ronald Dahl, School of Public Health and the Director of the Institute of Human Development at UC Berkeley, explores the health paradox of adolescence. Adolescence is (physically) the healthiest period of the lifespan yet the overall morbidity and mortality rates increase dramatically from childhood to late adolescence. Explore the growing evidence for sleep’s role in learning, memory, and brain development and the critical implications for intervention and policy for youth. Series: "UCSF Consortium for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment" [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 24586]

Michael Grandner, University of Pennsylvania, explains that insufficient or excess sleep duration or inadequate sleep quality have adverse affects on health. He explores how sleep is experienced on a societal level and argues that quality sleep is affected by a person’s race and income level. Series: "UCSF Consortium for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment" [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 24587]

Shawn Youngstedt, School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina and the Dorn VA Medical Center, explores how physical activity moderates the association of sleep duration and obesity. Series: "UCSF Consortium for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment" [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 24584]

Aric Prather, UCSF Department of Psychiatry, explores the complex associations of sleep, stress, and biology. He examines the link between stress and obesity and how sleep is involved. Series: "UCSF Consortium for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment" [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 24585]

Dr. Susan Redline, Professor of Sleep Medicine and director of programs in Sleep and Cardiovascular Medicine and Sleep Medicine Epidemiology at Harvard Medical School, explores effects of early life influences and sleep deficiency in childhood on predisposition to obesity. She also looks at age and gender vulnerabilities and identifies early childhood risk factors. Series: "UCSF Consortium for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment" [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 24583]