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Congratulations to previous CSS award winners for their outstanding contributions to Canadian sleep research.
Winners of the Student and Technologist Abstract Competition 17/08/20010
Each year the CSS holds a competition for CSS student and technologist members for the best abstract submitted (to either APSS or CSS when conference held in Canada). Each recipient receives $300 and a free one-year membership to the CSS.
2010 Winners:
Peter Schwarz, University of Toronto
Muscle Phenotype Predicts the Degree of Muscle Tone Suppression in Sleep
Ari Shechter, McGill University
Relationship between circadian rhythms of body temperature, melatonin secretion, and sleep propensity during the follicular and luteal phases
2009 Winners:
Laura Ray, Trent University
Systematic Optimization of Automated Sleep Spindle Detection
Rona Kertesz, Brock University
Event-related Potentials (ERPs) Reveal Failure to Inhibit Stimuli during the Pre-sleep Waking Period for Patients with Sleep-onset Insomnia
2008 Winners:
Rébecca Robillard, a graduate student at the University of Montreal working with Dr. Julie Carrier, for her abstract entitled, “Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Postural Control in Young and Older Subjects".
Patti Brooks,a graduate student at the University of Toronto working with Dr. John Peever, for her abstract entitled, “Clonazepam Reduces Myoclonic Activity During REM Sleep in a Mouse Model of REM-Sleep Behavior Disorder”.
CSS-ICRH Student Research Travel Award Competition 17/08/2010
This year a new student award was launched which is supported jointly by the CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH) and the Canadian Sleep Society (CSS).
Four awards of $1,000 (CDN) will be made each year. The award is for travel to make a presentation at one of the international (e.g. WFSRSM, WASM, ESRS), Canadian (e.g. CSS) or North American (e.g. APSS, ATS) sleep conferences. There are 4 categories in the CSS-ICRH Awards Competition (Junior & Senior for Basic Science and Clinical Research). This year, all applicants fell into the senior category. Two awards were made in the basic-senior and two awards in the clinical-senior category.
JUNIOR CATEGORY
2009 Winners:
Alex Madore, Laurentian University
IDENTIFICATION OF A RAPID EYE MOVEMENT SLEEP WINDOW FOR THE WIN-SHIFT RADIAL ARM MAZE TASK
Patty Brooks, University of Toronto
Glycinergicand GABAA-Mediated Inhibition of Somatic MotoneuronsDoes Not Mediate Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Motor Atonia
SENIOR CATEGORY
Winners in the Basic-senior category were:
2010 Winners:
Christian Burgess, University of Toronto
Sleep Disturbances in a Mouse Model of Bipolar Disorder
2009 Winners:
Stuart Fogel, Queen’s University
INCREASED GABA-ERGIC ACTIVITY IN THE PEDUNCULOPONTINE NUCLEUS REDUCES REM SLEEP AND IMPAIRS LEARNING IN RATS
2008 Winners:
Stuart Fogel, a PhD student working with Dr. Richard Benninger (Queen's University and Dr. Carlyle Smith (Trent University). His abstract was entitled, “Evidence for a 2-step model of sleep and memory: Learning-dependent changes in sleep spindles and theta in rats”.
Arash Tadjalli, a PhD student working with Dr. John Peever at the University of Toronto. His abstract was entitled, “Neural Mechanisms of Apnea-Induced Respiratory Long-Term Facilitation of Genioglossus Motor Outflow”.
Winners in the Clinical-senior category were:
2010 Winners:
Philippe Boudreau, University of Montreal
A practical intervention on light/dark exposure for police officers working rotating shifts
Catherine Milner, Brock University
Evidence of Sleep Dysregulation following Traumatic Brain Injury
2009 Winners:
Denise Jarrin, Concordia University
LOWER SUBJECTIVE SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS IS ASSOCIATED WITH SHORTERSLEEP DURATION, POORER SLEEP QUALITY, AND MORE DAYTIME SLEEPINESS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
Ari Schechter, McGill University
QUANTITATIVE SLEEP ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM ACROSS THE MENSTRUAL CYCLE IN WOMEN WITH PREMENSTRUAL DYSPHORIC DISORDER
2008 Winners:
Rébecca Robillard, a PhD student working with Dr. Julie Carrier at the University of Montreal. Her abstract was entitled, “Impact of sleep deprivation on postural control in young and older subjects”
Emilie Fortier-Brochu, a PhD student working with Dr. Charles Morin at Laval University. Her abstract was entitled, Insomnia and Neuropsychological Performance: A Meta-Analysis.
