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Aysha Abraibesh
Clinical Rsch Coord Assoc, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Sleep Medicine
BioAysha Abraibesh, MPA is a clinical research coordinator in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She works primarily on the Stanford Apnea and Insomnia Study (AIR) Study, led by Dr. Rachel Manber (more info can be found at airstudy.stanford.edu)
Aysha earned her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology (2012) and Master’s in Public Administration (2013) both from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. She has since held multiple positions supporting research studies related to social and behavioral health issues, most recently as a Lead Behavioral Health Interviewer at Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Health Research in Portland, Oregon. -
Maryam Ahmadi Shapourabadi
Social Science Research Scholar, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Sleep Medicine
Current Role at StanfordResearch Scolar
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Fiona Barwick, PhD, DBSM
Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Sleep Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsResearch interests focus on expanding sleep education, improving sleep health, optimizing treatment for circadian rhythm disorders, and adapting treatment for insomnia in populations where developmental, medical, psychiatric and cultural factors intersect.
Current research projects include developing and piloting integrated protocols for treating sleep problems that co-occur with medical conditions such as chronic pain or POTS. Ongoing collaborations include delivery of a CBTI protocol in Mandarin via telehealth to patients at Chongqing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital in China. Past projects include investigation of the link between RLS and the gut microbiome and a survey of student sleep health. -
Britney Blair, PsyD, DBSM, CST
Adjunct Clinical Instructor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Sleep Medicine
BioDr. Blair is a licensed clinical psychologist and is board certified in behavioral sleep medicine. Her clinical and research expertise are in behavioral medicine with specializations in sleep and sexual health. She has made numerous presentations, developed workshops, written chapters and published articles in the area of sleep and sexual medicine. Dr. Blair is a Stanford sleep consultant and is on the adjunct faculty at The Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine. She is also the Clinical Director of The Clinic.
Dr. Blair completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University Medical School and her pre-doctoral internship at the VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System. Dr. Blair received her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the PGSP-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, Dr. Blair founded a successful business consulting firm. -
Robson Capasso, MD
Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery (OHNS) and, by courtesy, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Sleep Medicine)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsClinically relevant outcomes for OSA Surgery.
Wearables and Digital Health Technologies for Sleep.
Innovative approaches for OSA Management.
Innovation in Sleep and Otolaryngology -
William Giardino
Assistant Professor (Research) of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Sleep Medicine)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsWe aim to decipher the neural mechanisms underlying psychiatric conditions of stress, addiction, and sleep/circadian dysregulation. Our work uses combinatorial technologies for precisely mapping, monitoring, and manipulating neural circuits that regulate emotional states. We are especially focused on the behavioral functions of neuropeptide molecules acting throughout the circuitry of the extended amygdala- particularly in a brain region called the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST).
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Erin Gibson
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Sleep Medicine)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsGlia make up more than half of the cells in the human brain, but we are just beginning to understand the complex and multifactorial role glia play in health and disease. Glia are decidedly dynamic in form and function. Understanding the mechanisms underlying this dynamic nature of glia is imperative to developing novel therapeutic strategies for diseases of the nervous system that involve aberrant gliogenesis, especially related to changes in myelination.
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Andrea Goldstein-Piekarski
Assistant Professor (Research) of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Sleep Medicine)
BioDr. Goldstein-Piekarski directs the Computational Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Sleep Laboratory (CoPsyN Sleep Lab) as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine and PI within the Sierra-Pacific Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC) at the Palo Alto VA. She received her PhD in 2014 at the University of California, Berkeley where she studied the consequences of sleep on emotional brain function. She then completed a Postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford focusing on understanding the brain basis of anxiety and depression.
As the director of the CoPsyN Sleep Lab she is developing a translational, interdisciplinary research program that combines human neuroimaging, high-density EEG sleep recording, and computational modeling to understand the neural mechanisms through which sleep disruption contributes to affective disorders, particularly depression, across the lifespan. The ultimate goals of this research are to (1) develop mechanistically-informed interventions that directly target aspects of sleep and brain function to prevent and treat affective disorders and (2) identify novel biomarkers which can identify which individuals are most likely to experience improved mood following targeted sleep interventions.
This work is currently supported by The KLS Foundation, a R01 from National Institute of Mental Health, and a R61 from the National Institute of Mental Health. -
Yoel Green, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Sleep Medicine
BioDr. Yoel Green is a board-certified, fellowship-trained sleep medicine specialist at Stanford Health Care. He also serves as a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Sleep Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Green specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders, including narcolepsy, parasomnias, and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). He also diagnoses and treats sleep-wake cycle disorders and restless legs syndrome (RLS). He integrates sleep data with patients’ lived experience to provide clear, personalized care.
Dr. Green’s research focuses on improving the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders. His work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Biological Psychiatry and SLEEP. He has authored textbook chapters and presented at national meetings, including the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Meeting.
Dr. Green is a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the APA, and the Canadian Sleep Society. -
Divya Gupta, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Sleep Medicine
BioDr. Divya Gupta is a board-certified, fellowship-trained neurologist with Stanford Health Care. She is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Sleep Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.
As a sleep medicine specialist, Dr. Gupta has expertise caring for a wide range of sleep disorders in children and adults. She develops personalized treatment plans for problems such as insomnia, sleep-related breathing disorders, disruptive nighttime sleep behaviors, and sleep-related movement disorders. She specializes in pediatric neurology and diagnosing and managing developmental disorders in children. Dr. Gupta works closely with patients and families to help improve sleep quality and overall quality of life.
Dr. Gupta is a physician-researcher in the neurology field, focused on studying neurological disorders in children. She has evaluated seizure management, including febrile seizures (convulsions caused by a fever) and severe epilepsy syndromes. She has examined how brain inflammation and genetic conditions affect the brain and sleep. Her recent studies have explored sleep disorders in children living with autism spectrum disorder, investigating the impact of conditions such as obstructive sleep apnea and ways to improve sleep evaluations.
Dr. Gupta has published her findings in the HealthCare Ethics Committee Forum and Annals of the Child Neurology Society. She has also presented her research across the nation at meetings of the American Academy of Neurology, Associated Professional Sleep Societies (SLEEP Meeting), and Child Neurology Society (CNS).
Dr. Gupta is a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) and Child Neurology Society (CNS). -
Reem Itani, MD, MACM
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Sleep Medicine
BioDr. Itani is board certified in general pediatrics, and board eligible in pediatric pulmonology and sleep medicine. She is fellowship trained in pediatric pulmonology and sleep medicine.
Dr. Itani diagnoses and treats a wide range of sleep disorders in adults and children.
Dr. Itani’s research interests include medical education and patient compliance and education. Her other research interests have included sleep consequences of Prader-Willi syndrome and congenital central hypoventilation syndrome.
Dr. Itani has published her research in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, Medical Teacher, and Brain & Development. She has presented to her peers at national and regional meetings, including the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the Innovations in Medical Education Conference, and the American Thoracic Society.
Dr. Itani is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the American Thoracic Society and the American College of Chest Physician. -
Makoto Kawai
Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Sleep Medicine
BioI am a physician scientist in the field of sleep medicine in aging and brain function. Using combined polysomnogram and novel neuroimaging technology, I aim to identify potential sleep biomarkers to investigate the mechanism of progression from normal aging to Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) or dementia. I also investigate the impact of sleep on cognitive/affective function or behavior abnormality in various neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders.
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Clete A. Kushida, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Sleep Medicine)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Kushida is a neurologist and sleep specialist who directs several NIH- and industry-sponsored research studies, focused on topics such as the physical features and neurocognitive changes associated with the obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, the epidemiology and treatment of restless legs syndrome/periodic limb movement disorder, primary care sleep education and training, and countermeasures for sleep loss.
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Mitchell Miglis, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Adult Neurology
Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Sleep MedicineCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsProdromal markers of neurodegeneration in REM sleep behavior disorder
Autonomic dysfunction in Long-COVID
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Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD
Craig Reynolds Professor of Sleep Medicine and Professor, by courtesy, of Genetics and of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe research focus of the laboratory is the study of sleep and sleep disorders such as narcolepsy and Kleine Levin syndrome. We also study the neurobiological and genetic basis of the EEG and develop new tools to study sleep using nocturnal polysomnography. Approaches mostly involve human genetic studies (GWAS, sequencing), EEG signal analysis (deep learning), and immunology (narcolepsy is an autoimmune disease of the brain). We also work on autoimmune encephalitis.
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Hylton Molzof, PhD, MPH
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Sleep Medicine
BioDr. Molzof is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Licensed Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford School of Medicine. She specializes in the assessment and treatment of sleep disorders via behavioral sleep medicine interventions, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) and positive airway pressure (PAP) desensitization. She also utilizes evidence-based techniques to help patients better manage circadian rhythm disorders, such as delayed sleep-wake phase disorder and shift work sleep disorder. Inspired by her background in public health, she has a strong interest in quality improvement and program development projects aimed at enhancing the quality and accessibility of sleep and circadian medicine for the diverse patient population served by Stanford Sleep Medicine Center.
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Seiji Nishino
Professor (Research) of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe research focus of the Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology (SCN) Laboratory is the study of the sleep and circadian physiology using various animal models. A portion of the research is carried out using rodent models of narcolepsy and circadian rhythm sleep disorders. The laboratory also carries out pharmacological studies aiming to develop new treatments for these sleep disorders.
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Maurice M. Ohayon, MD, DSc, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Sleep Medicine)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research focuses on population-based sleep and mental health epidemiology, including insomnia, hypersomnolence, narcolepsy, idiopathic hypersomnia, depression, anxiety, PTSD, and pain. I also develop and apply AI-assisted structured diagnostic interviews, including Sleep-EVAL/Ad-Infer, to improve phenotyping, differential diagnosis, longitudinal follow-up, and the study of comorbidity in large populations.
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Nnamdi Orakpo, MD, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Sleep Medicine
BioDr. Nnamdi Orakpo is a fellowship-trained sleep medicine specialist with Stanford Health Care. Dr. Orakpo is also a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Sleep Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Orakpo specializes in sleep medicine and sleep psychiatry. He focuses on sleep-related conditions, including chronic insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, and trauma-associated sleep disorders. Dr. Orakpo also treats patients with ADHD, depression, anxiety disorders, neurocognitive disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder. He offers interventional psychiatry treatments, including ketamine therapy and transcranial magnetic stimulation.
Dr. Orakpo led a pioneering study on virtual reality neurofeedback to treat insomnia and chronic centralized pain. He has also studied managing sleep apnea and obesity using GLP-1 medications. His other research has looked at the development of a rare movement disorder (propriospinal myoclonus) after taking metoclopramide during pregnancy.
Dr. Orakpo has published his research in peer-reviewed journals, including Sleep, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, and Frontiers in Psychiatry. He co-wrote a clinical sleep medicine textbook with his colleagues, contributing chapters on chronic insomnia, isolated sleep paralysis, sleep-related eating disorders, sexsomnia, and exploding head syndrome. Dr. Orakpo has presented to his peers at international and national meetings of the World Sleep Congress/World Dentofacial Sleep Society, the American Academy of Neurology, and the American Public Health Association.
Dr. Orakpo is a member of many professional organizations, including the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the American Psychiatric Association, the North American Neuromodulation Society, and the World Sleep Society. -
Sergiu P. Pasca
Kenneth T. Norris, Jr. Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Bonnie Uytengsu and Family Director of the Stanford Brain Organogenesis Program and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Hoover Institution
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsA critical challenge in understanding the intricate programs underlying development, assembly and dysfunction of the human brain is the lack of direct access to intact, functioning human brain tissue for detailed investigation by imaging, recording, and stimulation.
To address this, we are developing bottom-up approaches to generate and assemble, from multi-cellular components, human neural circuits in vitro and in vivo.
We introduced the use of instructive signals for deriving from human pluripotent stem cells self-organizing 3D cellular structures named brain region-specific spheroids/organoids. We demonstrated that these cultures, such as the ones resembling the cerebral cortex, can be reliably derived across many lines and experiments, contain synaptically connected neurons and non-reactive astrocytes, and can be used to gain mechanistic insights into genetic and environmental brain disorders. Moreover, when maintained as long-term cultures, they recapitulate an intrinsic program of maturation that progresses towards postnatal stages.
We also pioneered a modular system to integrate 3D brain region-specific organoids and study human neuronal migration and neural circuit formation in functional preparations that we named assembloids. We have actively applied these models in combination with studies in long-term ex vivo brain preparations to acquire a deeper understanding of human physiology, evolution and disease mechanisms.
We have carved a unique research program that combines rigorous in vivo and in vitro neuroscience, stem cell and molecular biology approaches to construct and deconstruct previously inaccessible stages of human brain development and function in health and disease.
We believe science is a community effort, and accordingly, we have been advancing the field by broadly and openly sharing our technologies with numerous laboratories around the world and organizing the primary research conference and the training courses in the area of cellular models of the human brain.
