UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM
2010 NSSP Information
The Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience
Howard P. Roffwarg, M.D.
Howard P. Roffwarg, M.D.
Clinical Mentor
Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine
Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Director, Division of Sleep Medicine
Co-Director, Animal Sleep Neurophysiology Laboratory
The University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, Mississippi

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

Research Interest

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)