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DESCRIPTION:The Feindel Virtual Brain and Mind Seminar presents 'Sleep mech
 anisms and possible sleep treatments for neurological and mental health di
 sorders'\n\nRegistration available here.\n\nSpeaker: Gina Poe\n\nProfessor
 \, Director of Maximizing Access to Research Careers U*STAR Program\, Univ
 ersity of California\, USA\n\nAbstract: Sleep is now well established as a
  critical mediator of memory consolidation. Sleep irregularities are one o
 f the first signs or biomarkers of many brain and cognitive disorders incl
 uding neurodegenerative disorders\, mood and substance misuse disorders\, 
 and memory-specific disorders. We will review the many mechanisms by which
  sleep sets things right from the prior waking period and readies the brai
 n for the challenges of the next waking period. We will discuss what distu
 rbances in these neurophysiological processes could do to initiate disorde
 rs and what is being done to explore sleep-rectifying treatments. \n\nBio:
  Gina Poe has been working since 1995 on the mechanisms through which slee
 p serves memory consolidation and restructuring. Dr. Poe is a southern Cal
 ifornia native who graduated from Stanford University then worked for two 
 post-baccalaureate years at the VA researching Air Force Test Pilots’ brai
 nwave signatures under high-G maneuvers. She then earned her PhD in Basic 
 Sleep in the Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program at UCLA under the guid
 ance of Ronald Harper then moved to the University of Arizona for her post
 doctoral studies with Carol Barnes and Bruce McNaughtons looking at gracef
 ul degradation of hippocampal function in aged rats as well as hippocampal
  coding in a 3-D maze navigated in the 1998 space shuttle mission. She bro
 ught these multiunit teachings to answer a burning question of whether REM
  sleep were for remembering or forgetting and found that activity of neuro
 ns during REM sleep is consistent both with the consolidation of novel mem
 ories and the elimination of already consolidated memories from the hippoc
 ampus\, readying the associative memory network for new learning the next 
 day. Moving first to Washington State University then to the University of
  Michigan before joining UCLA in 2016\, Poe has over 80 undergraduates\, 6
  graduate students\, and 6 postdoctoral scholars\, and has served in unive
 rsity faculty governance as well as leading 5 different programs designed 
 to diversify the neuroscience workforce and increase representation of peo
 ple of the global majority in the STEM fields. At UCLA she continues resea
 rch and teaching and Directs the COMPASS-Life Sciences and BRI-SURE progra
 ms and co-Directs the MARC-U*STAR program. Nationally she is course direct
 or of the Marine Biological Lab’s SPINES course and co-Directs the Society
  for Neuroscience’s NSP program which earned the nation’s highest mentorin
 g honor in 2018. These programs have served over 600 PhD level trainees ov
 er the years.\n\n\nThe Feindel Virtual Brain and Mind (VBM) Seminar Series
  will advance the vision of Dr. William Feindel (1918–2014)\, Former Direc
 tor of the Neuro (1972–1984)\, to constantly bridge the clinical and resea
 rch realms. The talks will highlight the latest advances and discoveries i
 n neuropsychology\, cognitive neuroscience\, and neuroimaging.\n\nSpeakers
  will include scientists from across The Neuro\, as well as colleagues and
  collaborators locally and from around the world. The series is intended t
 o provide a virtual forum for scientists and trainees to continue to foste
 r interdisciplinary exchanges on the mechanisms\, diagnosis and treatment 
 of brain and cognitive disorders.\n
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SUMMARY:Feindel Virtual Brain and Mind Lecture Series presents Gina Poe
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