Hi everyone. Welcome to Looking Forward! Today we’re going to discuss a topic that affects every one of us: OUR BRAINS. More specifically, we’re going to look at memory, sleep, and our brains.

In Part 1 of this two-part series, we looked at what we’ve learned in recent years about the brain and its capacity to remember things, what purposes memories serve, some things you can do to improve your memory, and other things, too.

In Part 2, we’re going to discuss how COVID 19 is affecting our brains, sleep, and memory, what future advances we might expect to see in those areas, and what opportunities all of that might offer to those looking for a new job, career, entrepreneurial endeavor, or investment idea. To help us explore this hugely important subject, we’ve brought on a highly qualified expert. She’s Dr. Jessica Payne.

Dr. Jessica Payne is Professor of Psychology and the Andrew J. McKenna Family Collegiate Chair at the University of Notre Dame, where she directs the Sleep, Stress, and Memory Lab. Her research focuses on how sleep and stress independently and interactively influence learning, memory, emotion, and creativity. She teaches various courses in Psychology and Neuroscience, including a popular course entitled “The Sleeping Brain” for which she won Harvard University’s Bok Center Award for teaching excellence and Notre Dame’s Frank O’Malley award for undergraduate teaching and service.

Dr. Payne is also dedicated to applying her research findings to business organizations, striving to help leaders understand how to work with, rather than against, the natural abilities of the human brain. Her work has been profiled in the New York Times, Businessweek and MSN, Scientific American, the Huffington Post, CNN, USA Today, Bloomberg Business Week, National Geographic, and many other media outlets.

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