Where: Bldg 20 Auditorium
Description
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About the speaker
Giulio Tononi received his medical degree from the University of Pisa, Italy, where he specialized in Psychiatry. He is currently Professor of Psychiatry, Distinguished Professor in Consciousness Science, the David P. White Chair in Sleep Medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Consciousness.
Signing session after the keynote with Giulio Tononi for his book Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul available for sale.
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Giulio Tononi
Giulio Tononi received his medical degree from the University of Pisa, Italy, where he specialized in Psychiatry. He is currently Professor of Psychiatry, Distinguished Professor in Consciousness Science, the David P. White Chair in Sleep Medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Consciousness. His laboratory studies consciousness and its disorders as well as the mechanisms and functions of sleep. Dr. Tononi’s main contribution in the study of sleep has been the development of a comprehensive hypothesis about the function of sleep, the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis. According to the hypothesis, sleep serves to renormalize synaptic strength, counterbalancing a net increase of synaptic strength due to plasticity during wakefulness.
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