UCLA
March 12, 2021
Recent scientific advances have generated technologies that could harness the power of stem cell science to better understand and discover new treatments for neuropsychiatric disorders. On March 22, from 1 to 3 p.m., leaders from all areas of the field will discuss their research on human neuropsychiatric disorders.
Presented by the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center, the UCLA Neuroscience Theme, the Depression Grand Challenge and the Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior, this conference brings together leading scientists to discuss how human genetics and stem cell research can advance our understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric disorders, and the implications of such research for reducing disparities in mental health.
They stayed up late into the evening, averaged less than 6.5 hours of sleep a night and rarely napped.
College students during final exams? Working moms? No, says a UCLA-led team of researchers who studied sleeping patterns among traditional peoples whose lifestyles closely resemble those of our evolutionary ancestors. Instead it was pre-industrial humans, according to a team that studied the Hadza of Tanzania, the San of Namibia and the Tsimane of Bolivia challenges conventional wisdom about their sleeping habits. The findings, published today in
Current Biology, suggest that the industrialized world s sleep habits do not differ much from those that humans evolved to have.