“What we think, how we feel, and how we behave are all influenced by how we sleep. “
“What happens in our mind/brain while sleeping across the night is critical preparation for us to involve ourselves fully in life the following day.”
Dr. Nofzinger trained and became a Professor of Psychiatry and the Director of the Sleep Neuroimaging Research Program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
His work focused on pioneering functional neuroimaging methods for studying sleep and the development of novel brain based interventions for the treatment of neuropsychiatric and sleep disorders.
He has presented and published extensively on the results of his sleep neuroimaging research in leading journals and textbooks, including SLEEP, the Archives of Internal Medicine, the Archives of General Psychiatry, the American Journal of Psychiatry, Sleep Medicine Reviews, and Brain and co-edited the first textbook related to the neuroimaging of sleep entitled Neuroimaging of Sleep and Sleep Disorders published by Cambridge University Press.
Over his clinical and academic career, he has over 30 years’ experience in clinical sleep disorders medicine and in sleep research and has served on scientific advisory boards for most approved hypnotics and many medical devices. He is a Past-President of the Sleep Research Society and a Past-President of the Sleep Research Society Foundation.
