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Dr. Samika Kumar discusses her research on brain activity at the edge of waking and sleep, along with her research career and the NIH Graduate Partnerships Program.

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Your brain doesn't fully switch off when you fall asleep. It still picks up a scream from across the room, still sorts emotional sounds from neutral ones, and reorganizes itself depending on what you were doing as you drifted off. Dr. Samika Kumar, a postdoctoral researcher at NIMH, studies what the brain is doing at that edge between waking and sleep. She has done sleep research at Stanford, UC Berkeley, the University of Cambridge and the NIH. She'll talk about her work and about how she got there, including the NIH Graduate Partnerships Program, which lets PhD students train at the NIH. If you're curious about sleep, the brain, or a research career at the NIH, come with questions.

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