David F. Dinges

David F. Dinges

David F. Dinges is a major American sleep researcher and teacher.

He is Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Chief of the Division of Sleep and Chronobiology in the Department of Psychiatry, and Associate Director of the Center for Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology in the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dinges earned his M.S. (1974) and Ph.D. (1976) degrees in Experimental Physiological Psychology from Saint Louis University.[1]

Dinges has served as President of the Sleep Research Society, on the Boards of Directors of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the National Sleep Foundation, as President of the World Federation of Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine Societies and as Editor-in-Chief of SLEEP, the leading scientific journal on sleep research and sleep medicine.

His laboratory studies the physiological, cognitive and functional changes resulting from sleep loss in humans. His research has primarily focused on the manner in which sleep homeostasis and circadian rhythmicity control cognitive, affective, behavioral, endocrine and immunological processes. Dinges' work has contributed to our knowledge of the effects of sleep disorders, the recovery potential of naps, the nature of sleep inertia and the impact of cumulative sleep debt. He has developed technologies for monitoring human neurobehavioral capability, such as his patented Psychomotor Vigilance Test (PVT).

He has consulted with many U.S. agencies including the Department of Transportation, National Institutes of Health, NASA[2] and the military as well as several non-federal, private and foreign entities on the physiological and behavioral effects of sleep deprivation, and ways to mitigate these effects.

Dinges' CV in November 2007[3] showed 130 peer reviewed research publications dated 1972 to 2007 as well as more than 90 editorials, reviews, chapters and committee reports, 1978 to 2007. Together with R. J. Broughton, he edited Sleep and Alertness: Chronobiological, Behavioral and Medical Aspects of Napping, Raven Press, New York, 1989. Together with M. P. Szuba and J. D. Kloss, he edited Insomnia: Principles and Management, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2003. Together with his colleague Siobhan Banks he co-wrote the chapter on sleep deprivation in Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine.

Videos of his short Science Network lectures Behaving without sleep: Biological limits on our environmental demands and Napping and Recovery at the Salk Institute, 09 and 10 February 2007, can be viewed online.[4]

References

  1. ^ "David F. Dinges, Ph.D., Director, Unit for Experimental Psychiatry". University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on 2007-11-14. http://web.archive.org/web/20071114225121/http://www.med.upenn.edu/uep/dinges.shtml. Retrieved 2008-02-19. 
  2. ^ "NASA-supported sleep researchers are learning new and surprising things about naps". NASA. 2005-06-03. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/03jun_naps.htm. Retrieved 2008-02-19. 
  3. ^ "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF, 105 pages). University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. 2007-11-12. http://www.med.upenn.edu/uep/pdfs/dfd/DFDCV.pdf. 
  4. ^ Bingham, Roger; Terrence Sejnowski, Jerry Siegel, Mark Eric Dyken, Charles Czeisler, Paul Shaw, Ralph Greenspan, Satchin Panda, Philip Low, Robert Stickgold, Sara Mednick, Allan Pack, Luis de Lecea, David Dinges, Dan Kripke, Giulio Tononi (February 2007). "Waking Up To Sleep" (Several conference videos). The Science Network. http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/Waking%20Up%20To%20Sleep%202006/. Retrieved 2008-01-25. [dead link]

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