Sleep and a Healthy Life | Jonathan Wisor | TEDxSpokane

Get your sleep, your health depends on it! This lively talk shares the important correlation between sleep and health.

Dr. Wisor is an Associate Professor of Medical Sciences at the WSU Spokane Health Sciences Campus. He runs the Wisor Lab to identify functional consequences of sleep and sleep loss within the nervous system. Dr. Wisor has Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from Pennsylvania State University, a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles, and served as a postdoctoral fellow and subsequently as a research associate at Stanford University School of Medicine. From 2004 through 2008 he was a staff scientist at SRI International, a non-profit research institute in Menlo Park, California.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx