Are You Getting Enough Sleep? Professor Russell Grant Foster talks to Dr Raj Persaud

27/06/2017 27 min
Are You Getting Enough Sleep? Professor Russell Grant Foster talks to Dr Raj Persaud

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Russell Grant Foster, CBE, FRS FMedSci is a British professor of circadian neuroscience, the Director of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and the Head of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute. www.ox.ac.uk/research/research-in-conversation/healthy-body-healthy-mind/russell-foster 'Fundamentally, what I'm excited about and trying to understand is how the core mechanisms of sleep and 24-hour circadian rhythms are generated and regulated within the central nervous system, and then use this fundamental knowledge for translational studies – to inform therapeutic approaches that will improve the quality of life for individuals and their family across a broad spectrum of health conditions where sleep is severely disrupted, from eye disease to mental illness.

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