4::00 pm - 5:00 pm, WPIC
Auditorium (2nd Floor), Thomas Detre Hall, University of Pittsburgh
"The Effects of Sleep
Loss on Inflammation and Host Protection in Healthy Volunteers"
Janet Mullington, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Dr.
Mullington's lecture will highlight findings from human studies investigating
the effects of sleep and sleep loss on inflammatory mediators. Factors
likely to be involved in the inflammatory vulnerability to sleep loss will
be discussed. In addition, she will present results from a recent
study on the effects of chronic sleep restriction on human host responses
to a bacterial challenge. Dr. Mullington will address issues of the
involvement of sleep in host protection and the responsiveness of sleep
to immune challenge.
