Philip Gehrman, PhD
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Speaking of Psychology · Rethinking sleep and mental health, with Philip Gehrman, PhD · 8 Jul 2026
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No, I actually people ask me that a lot.
And I often say, you know, I'm not much of an athlete, but if sleeping were an Olympic sport, I think I could meddle.
I'm I'm generally a really good sleeper.
Um the it actually came down to my undergraduate time.
Um the university where I work now, Penn, is actually where I went to college.
And my senior year, I took a class on sleep and circadian rhythms.
And I was hooked.
I just found the topic to be so interesting.
I mean, back then we knew a lot less than we know now.
We've come quite a long way since since then.
But then after I graduated, I managed to get a job as a research assistant in the sleep lab here at Penn before going on to graduate school.
And so that really solidified my interest.
And so I
I always tell my um undergraduate students, I say, you never know what difference a s uh what what a a single class is gonna spark in terms of your interests.
And I I'm certainly an example of that.
Aaron Powell The the whole intersection of sleep and mental health was a very hot area of research in the 1980s, kind of 1990s, and it kind of died off to a certain extent because
the the significant advan there are a lot of dead ends that that hit.
Um the case I'm trying to make is that our research tools and techniques are so much better now that the time is really ripe to kind of reinvigorate this area of research.
And and there's even just a lot of low-hanging fruit that we can be doing that taps into a new
Or techniques that taps into these changes of technology.
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