| Key Laboratory Personnel: |
| A. Sinan Baran, M.D., ABSM, Director |
UMC Sleep Disorders Center |
| Allen C. Richert, M.D., ABSM, Fellowship
Director |
UMC Sleep Disorders Center |
| Joseph Kwentus, M.D., ABSM |
Attending Sleep Disorders Specialist |
| Shashidhar M. Shettar, M.D., ABIM |
Attending Sleep Disorders Specialist |
| Michael Rack, M.D., ABIM |
Attending Sleep Disorders Specialist |
| James Shaffery, D.Phil. |
Director of Animal Sleep Neurophysiology
Laboratory |
| Joanne McCuller Davis |
Administrative Secretary of the Center |
| Teresa Cannon, M.A., RPSGT |
Chief Technologist, Supervisor for Team |
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Research Interests
Dr. Roffwarg's research interests include
investigations of: antidepressant and sedative medications and
their effects on sleep physiology; relationship of types of
depressive illness to sleep stage architecture; pathological
mechanisms underlying sleep disorders; psychophysiological
correlates between dream imagery and body events during sleep; and
effects of the last trimester of pregnancy on sleep stages. He also
is co-investigator on research into the ontogeny and function of
REM sleep.
Selected Publications
Rush, A., Giles, D., Schlesser, M., Orsulak, P., Weissenberge, J.,
Fulton, C., Fairchild, C., and Roffwarg, H.: Dexamethasone
response, thyrotropin-releasing hormone stimulation, rapid eye
movement latency (REM), and subtypes of depression. Biol.
Psychiat., 41: 917-978, 1997.
Breus, M., Brown, T., Rains, J., and Roffwarg, H.:
Subjective assessment of sleepiness compared with MSLT. Sleep
Research, 26: 643, 1997.
Giles, D., Kupfer, D., Rush, J., and Roffwarg, H.: A
controlled comparison of electroencephalographic sleep in families
of probands with unipolar depression. Amer. Journal of
Psychiatry, 155:192-199, 1998
Baran, A.S., and Roffwarg, H.: Case series: Snoring and
sleep-related gastroesophageal reflux masquerading as
sleep-disordered breathing. Sleep, 21 (suppl):172, 1998.
Shaffery, J.P. and Roffwarg, H.: Rapid eye movement sleep
(REMS) deprivation does not "rescue" a developmentally regulated
long-term potentiation (LTP) in visual cortex of mature rats.
Neuroscience Letters, 342: 196-200, 2003
Shaffery, J.P., Roffwarg, H.: Ontogeny of sleep. In
Frontiers of Bioscience: Basic Science of Sleep, J. Kruger,
ed. In WWW.Bioscience.org,
(in press, 2005)
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