Date: December 2, 2005 Time: Noon to 1:30 Title: Sleep Disorders in Children Speaker: Ruth Benca, M.D., Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison Where: Waisman Conference Center Room T216, Second Floor, North Tower About the Speaker: Ruth Benca received both her doctorate in pathology and her medical degree from the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, where she also completed her residency in psychiatry and fellowship in sleep disorders medicine.   Her research has focused on several aspects of sleep behavior, including the acute effects of light-dark cycles on sleep and wakefulness and the relationship between sleep abnormalities and psychiatric disorders, in particular the effects of sleep on mood regulatory systems. She has served as principal investigator on numerous neuroscience studies and is the author or coauthor of more than 100 journal articles, book chapters, and abstracts. Benca is on the editorial board of the journal Sleep and has reviewed manuscripts for a number of journals, including Sleep, Science, the Journal of Neuroscience, and Biological Psychiatry. Active in several national societies, Benca is a past president of the Sleep Research Society and was a recent chairman of the Joint Operations Committee of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies. She is a frequent invited speaker in the area of sleep disorders and was recently selected to participate in the Hedwig van Amerigen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women. She will discuss normal sleep across childhood and adolescence, sleep disorders common to children and adolescents, and the association between sleep problems and psychiatric disorders. For Further Information: Contact Teresa Palumbo at 263-5837 or palumbo@waisman.wisc.edu   To download an Adobe Acrobat file of the entire seminar series schedule click here. (pdf schedule coming soon!)