Ronald Szymusiak

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Ronald Szymusiak is a professor at UCLA, where he researches sleep and Alzheimer's disease. Szymusiak is the editor-in-chief of SLEEP sleep medicine journal. [1]

Szymusiak obtained his Ph.D. in biological psychology from the University of Illinois in 1982 and did his postdoctoral training in neurobiology. [2] In the years 2017-2018 [3] and 2021-2023, [4] [5] he received a Veterans Affairs Research Career Scientist Award. [6] [7] He is a professor at the school of medicine at UCLA. [8] He has worked on sleep disorders and contributed to the understanding of the REM–Non-REM Sleep Cycle, hypothalamic control of sleep homeostasis, [9] sleep suppression, and the impact of various factors, such as corticotropin-releasing factor, on sleep.

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  2. ↑ AASM Young Investigators Research Forum (2020 Virtual Meeting). AASM Foundation. 2020. p. 16.
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  8. ↑ Avidan, Alon Y.; Barkoukis, Teri J. (2011-08-26). Review of Sleep Medicine. Elsevier Health Sciences. ISBN   978-1-4557-0319-7.
  9. ↑ Szymusiak, Ronald; Alam, Noor; Steininger, Teresa L; McGinty, Dennis (1998-08-24). "Sleep–waking discharge patterns of ventrolateral preoptic/anterior hypothalamic neurons in rats". Brain Research. 803 (1): 178–188. doi:10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00631-3. ISSN   0006-8993.


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