Friday, April 24, 2009

Good articles/websites about sleep

table of sleep disorders
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v5/n11s/full/nn944_T1.html

Figure of sleep control
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v5/n11s/full/nn944_F1.html

Text book (Principal of neuroscience) about sleep
http://www.semel.ucla.edu/sleepresearch/SleepDream/sleep_dreams.htm

Best website on sleep by Jerome Siegel
http://www.semel.ucla.edu/sleepresearch/

Very good review about sleep from Nature Reviews Neuroscience 3, 591-605 (August 2002) | doi:10.1038/nrn895
The Neurobiology of Sleep: Genetics, cellular physiology and subcortical networks
http://www.nature.com.ezproxy.hsclib.sunysb.edu/nrn/journal/v3/n8/full/nrn895.html#B32

Another very good website on sleep
http://www.macalester.edu/psychology/whathap/UBNRP/dreaming/py.html
http://www.macalester.edu/psychology/whathap/UBNRP/dreaming/dream.html
The person gives very good explanation about physiology of sleep.

Another review from Annual Review of Genetics
Vol. 42: 361-388 (Volume publication date December 2008)
(doi:10.1146/annurev.genet.42.110807.091541)
Genetics of Sleep
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org.ezproxy.hsclib.sunysb.edu/doi/full/10.1146/annurev.genet.42.110807.091541?amp;searchHistoryKey=%24{searchHistoryKey}&cookieSet=1
Only that I didn't finish reading it....

Another website:
http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih3/sleep/guide/info-sleep.htm

If you google book "sleep", there are a lot of books about it. I don't have time to read all of them, and it seems their content are actually not that secret to me.

Academic website of dreaming
http://www.asdreams.org/index.htm

Finally I can close so many tabs in firefox.

Monday, April 20, 2009

This year's meeting related to me

Neural Circuits & Plasticity (May 17, 2009)
June 7-12, 2009
Salve Regina University
Newport, RI
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2009&program=neurplast

Evolutionary & Ecological Functional Genomics (June 21, 2009)
July 12-17, 2009
Tilton School
Tilton, NH
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2009&program=evoeco

Calcium Signalling
June 21-26, 2009
Il Ciocco Hotel and Resort
Lucca (Barga), Italy




Next year's

Cardiac Regulatory Mechanisms
June 6-11, 2010
Colby-Sawyer College
New London, NH
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2010&program=cardiac

Cell Biology Of The Neuron
June 27 - July 2, 2010
Waterville Valley Resort
Waterville Valley, NH
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2010&program=cellbio

Ion Channels
July 11-16, 2010
Tilton School
Tilton, NH
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2010&program=ionchan

Mechanisms Of Epilepsy & Neuronal Synchronization
August 8-13, 2010
Colby College
Waterville, ME
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2010&program=epilepsy

Molecular & Cellular Neurobiology
June 6-11, 2010
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong, China
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2010&program=neurobio

Neurobiology Of Cognition
August 1-6, 2010
Waterville Valley Resort
Waterville Valley, NH
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2010&program=neurocog

Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation, The Biology Of
July 18-23, 2010
Salve Regina University
Newport, RI
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2010&program=posttrans