Empwr Series

Catherine is a clinician scientist and educator with 20 years experience in brain injury and speech language pathology. Catherine completed her PhD in the faculty of medicine, graduate dept of rehabilitation science at the University of Toronto with a specialty in rehabilitation neuroscience. Her research examined the impact of sleep and wake disorders on recovery and outcomes for cognition and communication after brain injury. First we talk about sleep as a science, the cycles and what happens during each cycle on a microscopic level. We then bring in sleep and brain injury and how that changes sleep. Of course we discuss sleep and mental health with specifics to how and why sleep and emotional well being are so tightly linked. We conclude with sleep hygiene or “sleep hacks” that everyone can use to improve their sleep. - Poor sleep vs Chronic poor sleep - K-Complex in Stage 2 Sleep - The Amygdala and Sleep - What you do as soon as you wake up can help you sleep at night. - Waking up from REM sleep and not b