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Michael Weissberg is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and Vice-Chair of the Department of Psychiatry. He went to camp in Poughkeepsie, NY, and to schools in New York City. His undergraduate education, such as it was, was at NYU, where he majored in transcendental dentistry and Turkish Literature of the 17th century. His medical degree is from Tufts, and he did a residency at the Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC. He arrived in Colorado in 1972. He is Board-certified in Sleep Medicine and in Psychiatry. His practice ranges from sleep medicine to general psychiatry to forensic psychiatry. He has many publications in psychiatric education, sleep, and psychiatric emergencies. Among the popular books he has written are: “Dangerous Secrets” (WW Norton) and “The First Sin of Ross Michael Carlson” (Dell/Delacorte). They are out of print now although the latter is optioned for a movie; the books may be located on Amazon or eBay. Mike has appeared on the Today Show, Oprah (twice), and Larry King. He is currently developing a sleep clinic at the Boulder Community Hospital. A superb and engaging teacher, he is in charge of both basic science and clinical education of CU’s medical students in human behavior. |
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Why do we need to sleep? (Do we need to sleep? What does it knitteth up?) There are many of us who feel that we don’t get enough sleep, or that its quality is poor. Some of us have difficulty falling asleep; other fall asleep readily, but wake frequently. What’s wrong with us? What’s narcolepsy, what are dreams? And the hardest question of all, What IS my sleep number? The main discussion may be: Why do we sleep? (We don’t know) and: What happens when we are sleep-deprived (We know). Mike may also have the audience evaluate their own sleep debt and sleep propensities (long vs. short sleeper, night owls vs. larks). No matter how deprived we are, though, there isn't much chance Mike will put us to sleep.
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