Sleep Science Podcast
Episodes
S3E9 - End of Season Christmas Q&A
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We've gathered the NaPS lab to answer all your fascinating questions on all things sleep! A perfect bitesize episode to get stuck into the marvel...
S3E8 - Michele Bellesi - Glial Cells and the Architecture of Sleep
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode, we welcome neuroscientist Michele Bellesi from the University of Camerino to explore the fascinating world of glial cel...
S3E7 - Can sleep help us unlearn negative bias and update disturbing memories?- Xiaoqing Hu
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textCan sleep help us unlearn biases and make our memories more positive?Implicit biases are unconscious stereotypes that influence our judg...
S3E6 - Hongi Ngo: Exploring Closed-Loop Auditory Stimulation
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWe're joined by Hongi Ngo, who developed a revolutionary technique for manipulating sleep oscillations during his PhD. Closed-loo...
S3E5 - Anna Schapiro - Can we model the way REM and NREM replay consolidate memories?
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textHow are memories represented in the brain and how can we model this?Professor Anna Schapiro from University of Pennsylvania as we discus...
S3E4 - Rebecca Spencer - Sleep across a lifetime - infant to old age
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textHow does our sleep change as we age and what could this mean for memory and cognition?In this episode, we discuss with Professor Rebecca...
S3E3 - Can sleep make us more creative?
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this deep dive episode, we look at how sleep onset can help creativity. With our amazing guest speakers, Professor Bob Stickgold, Dr...
S3E2 - Francesca Siclari - Parasomnias and dreaming
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textSleepwalking, sleep talking, night terrors - how do they occur and why do some people have them more than others?Join us as we discuss w...
S3E1 - Start of Season Christmas Q&A
22 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textTo kickstart season 3 of the Sleep Science Podcast, we have the lab behind the podcast, NaPS Lab, to answer some great sleep-related que...
S2E9 - End of season Q&A Session
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textFor our end of season special, we have the rest of the NaPS lab in to answer a number of exciting sleep-related questions from our liste...
S2E8 - Chiara Cirelli - Synaptic Homeostasis in Sleep
13 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode, we talk with Professor Chiara Cirelli from the department of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin. We begin by hea...
S2E7 - Reto Huber - Local Sleep, Sleep Homeostasis, & Brain Plasticity
25 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode, we interviewed Professor Reto Huber, who leads a research group at the University Children’s Hospital, Zurich. Reto’...
S2E5 - Manuel Schabus & Kerstin Hoedlmoser - How babies sleep and what this means for their cognitive function
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode we talk to Professor Manuel Schabus and Professor Kerstin Hoedlmoser from the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience at t...
S2E6 Wenbiao Gan - The role of sleep in synapse formation and elimination
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode, we talk to Professor Wenbiao Gan from the Neuroscience and Physiology and Skirball Institute at New York University Sch...
S2E4 Colin Espie – What is insomnia and how can we treat it?
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode, we interviewed Colin Espie, one of the world’s leading authorities on sleep and insomnia. Colin is Professor in Sleep...
S2E3 - Tore Nielsen & Mark Blagrove - Lucid Dreaming & the 'Dream-lag' effect
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode, we talk to Professor Tore Nielsen from the University of Montreal and Professor Mark Blagrove from Swansea University...
S2E1:Tristan Bekinschtein - The Consciousness Boundary
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode, we talk to Dr Tristan Bekinschtein from the Cambridge Consciousness and Cognition Lab and discuss his research looking ...
S2E2: Tore Nielsen & Mark Blagrove - Part 1 - What we dream and why we need to
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode, we talk to Professor Tore Nielsen from the University of Montreal and Professor Mark Blagrove from Swansea University...
Episode 10: Christmas Q&A session
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textToday's episode is a little bit different. We're marking the end of our first season by roping in the rest of the NaPS lab to ...
Episode 9: Michelle Carr and Karen Konkoly - What is lucid dreaming and how can it help us?
13 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textHave you ever wished you could control your dreams? In this episode we learn about new approaches letting people do exactly that. We als...
Episode 8: Daniel Bendor: Memory Replay and Consolidation in Rodents
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode, we talk to Dr Daniel Bendor from University College London. Daniel's work focuses on rodent studies of place cells...
Episode 7: Björn Rasch -Targeted Memory Reactivation
08 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode, we talk to Professor Björn Rasch about the pioneering of a process called Targeted Memory Reactivation (TMR). TMR is a...
Episode 6: Dan Margoliash & Tim Brawn: How sleep helps birds to learn their songs
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode we take a neuroethological approach to sleep, and discover why songbirds are such a good model system for studying sleep...
Episode 5: Anat Arzi & Thomas Andrillon - Learning in your sleep
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWe humans have long wondered if it is possible to learn while we sleep but, experimental findings on this have often been disappointing....
Episode 4: Vlad Vyazovskiy - Local sleep, circadian rhythms and torpor
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode we examine how sleep differs between species to get some clues about what sleep actually is as a phenomenon. How have ...
Episode 3: Gina Poe - How sleep restructures our memories and emotions
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode we ask Gina Poe, a sleep scientist from UCLA, about her seminal work on both REM and non-REM sleep. We talk about the ro...
Episode 2: Sasha Handley - A history of sleep in Early Modern England
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode we look back on the beliefs and practices people had around sleep in the 16th-18th centuries. We learn about why sleep w...
Episode 1: Bob Stickgold - What do sleep and dreams do for our minds and our memories?
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode, we speak with Professor Bob Stickgold, one of the most prominent researchers in the field of sleep science. Bob tells u...