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Robert Stickgold

Cognitive Neuroscientist

Robert Stickgold is an associate professor of psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. He received his B.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, both in biochemistry. He has published over 100 scientific publications, including papers in Science, Nature, JAMA, and Nature Neuroscience. He has also spoken multiple times at the Boston Museum of Science and at Amsterdam’s NEMO science center. His work looks at the nature and function of sleep and dreams from a cognitive neuroscience perspective, with an emphasis on the role of sleep and dreams in memory consolidation and integration, and how defects in these processes contribute to psychiatric disorders, including PTSD and schizophrenia. His work is funded by NIMH.

 

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