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Sidney D. Nau, Ph.D. Bio Sketch I have been doing sleep research since beginning graduate school at the University of Iowa, where I joined a new group of researchers that was just forming. Our early studies examined relaxation training, systematic desensitization and placebo treatments for chronic difficulty falling asleep at bedtime. Early successes led to the opening of a psychophysiology laboratory for overnight sleep recordings.
Dr. Lichstein has encouraged me to initiate new research on the evaluation and treatment of insomnia. He has helped me pursue something unique and ground-breaking -- developing new ways to describe and measure the experience that occurs when people lie awake for a long time, waiting for sleep to come (including the affects, physical sensations, the thinking, and the worrying that accompany the insomnia experience). Since beginning our new NIDA project at The University of Alabama, I have been commuting to Tuscaloosa each week and returning to my Memphis home on the weekend. My wife Glenda lives and works in Memphis. Our older son, Samuel, and his wife, Amy, live in Kansas City, Missouri. Our younger son, Martin, is starting medical school at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The family tries to be together as much as we can through email and phone calls, and road trips.
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The experience at
Iowa was formative. I "imprinted" on the sleep field. It initiated a
long-term commitment to the study of sleep. Like everyone, sleep has
always been curiosity for me, a frustration at times, often a pleasant
experience, and big part of life (perhaps a third) that is more poorly
understood than many behaviors.