June 2026 read
About the author-
Matthew Walker is a Professor of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering at UT Dallas, where he founded and direct the Sleep Innovation Laboratories at the Center for BrainHealth. His lab studies how sleep shapes human health and disease — from Alzheimer's and cardiovascular illness to depression, anxiety, and metabolic function. Before Texas, he spent seventeen years at UC Berkeley, and before that he was Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He has a hundred-plus peer-reviewed papers, funded by the NIH and NSF. his work has always been the same question, asked from different angles: what does sleep actually do, and what happens when it doesn't happen?
Ref: https://www.sleepdiplomat.com/
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