Relating Sleep to Alzheimers Disease

Dr. Adam Spira is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.  Dr. Spira received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from West Virginia University, and completed his clinical internship with a geropsychology focus at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, where he subsequently conducted research on sleep and aging as a postdoctoral fellow.  He then completed a fellowship in epidemiological aging research in the Division of Geriatrics and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco.  Dr. Spira’s research is focused on cognitive, functional, and psychiatric outcomes of poor sleep in later life, and he is supported in part by a Mentored Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute on Aging.  Dr. Spira is a licensed psychologist in the State of Maryland.  Beyond 50 Transformation host Freddie Bell talks with Dr. Spira about the breakthroughs in his research.