A Master Class on Sleep

Yo-El Ju is the Barbara Burton and Reuben Morris Professor of Neurology at Washington University, St. Louis. She got her AB from Harvard and MD from Columbia and actively practices sleep medicine and is a prolific researcher, one of the top sleep scientists in the country.
Here are some of the topics we discussed and a few related hyperlinked citations:
—Importance of Deep Sleep (and her paper on what happens when deep sleep is purposely disrupted, how it is modulated, effect of alcohol
—The Orexin Antagonist drugs that promote sleep (and a study that shows they can reduce p-tau217 and other…