Shining a light on how sleep affects memory, cognition, and emotion
In partnership with Harvard Medical School & Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
CELEBRATING THE CAREER OF DR. ROBERT STICKGOLD
CELEBRATING THE CAREER OF DR. ROBERT STICKGOLD
A Year of Celebration and Recognition for Dr. Robert Stickgold
2024 marked a major year of recognition and celebration for the previous director and founder of the Center for Sleep and Cognition, Dr. Robert Stickgold.
First, on the occasion of the end of his 20-year tenure as the Director of the Center for Sleep and Cognition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, we organized a Festschrift – a collection of writings published in honor of an influential scholar – to celebrate Dr. Stickgold’s long and impactful career in sleep and circadian science. The Festschrift will be published as a special issue of the peer-reviewed, open access journal SLEEP Advances in 2025.
Second, in honor of his outstanding lifetime contributions to the field of sleep, Dr. Stickgold received the Harvard Medical School Division of Sleep Medicine Prize and was recognized and delivered a keynote address during the Division of Sleep Medicine's Annual Sleep and Health Benefit Dinner. The entire division and several lab members and alumni were in attendance to celebrate this lifetime achievement award.
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The Center for Sleep and Cognition (CfSC) has been conducting cutting-edge, innovative sleep research in Boston for over 20 years. The lab uses sleep as a tool to investigate the fundamental building blocks of memory, cognition, and emotion.
The current director of the CfSC, Dr. Tony Cunningham, is a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of Massachusetts with research interests at the intersection of clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
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The Center for Sleep and Cognition specializes in investigating the strengths and limitations of sleep in promoting healthy memory, cognitive, and emotional functioning in both healthy and clinical populations. For two decades, the work led by Dr. Robert Stickgold produced many seminal papers that aided in establishing the foundation for the field of sleep and memory. This work continues under the direction of Dr. Tony Cunningham with an eye on translating these findings into novel and effective therapeutic treatments for a variety of psychiatric conditions.
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“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
— Frederick Nietzsche