Rosalind Cartwright, Ph.D. Professor and Chairman, Deptartment of Psychology
		Education B.A. 1945 University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M.A. 1946 University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Ph.D.1949 Cornell University Ithaca, New York

Contact Information Address: Dept. of Psychology, Rush University 1653 West Congress Parkway, Chicago, IL 60612 Business Phone: (312) 312-942-2020 Business FAX: (312) 312-942-8961 E-mail Address: rcartwri@rush.edu Research Interests Sleep and dreams in major depression. Sleep-related episodes of violence, eating, sexual activity (Parasomnias). Dr. Cartwright has been conducting research on the functions of REM sleep for the past 40 years. Her present studies deal with the nature of disorders of the sleep/wake transitions leading to abnormal behaviors involving basic drives acted out without awareness and for which there is profound amnesia on full awakening. She continues her work developing and testing innovative treatments for sleep apnea. Basic sleep research has now extended from studies based on surface recordings of EEG, EOG, EMG scored by various stages of sleep according to criteria set out in 1965, to power density analyses, and brain imaging studies of the areas of increased activity during REM versus Non-REM sleep and waking in normal and various abnormal states. The discovery that the mind never sleeps but changes the kind of processing in the different states opens areas of research into the sleeping mind, its powers and dysfunctions. The Sleep Disorder Service and Research Center was founded at Rush by Dr. Cartwright in 1978 one of the first in the USA. It is now equipped with 8 beds and runs subjects 7 nights a week. Six of the beds are devoted to clinical patients being diagnosed for a sleep disorder. The remaining two beds are set aside for research. The laboratory is capable of also doing ambulatory monitoring of sleep in the subjects own home. As well as polysomnography the laboratory is also equipped with actigraphic equipment for monitoring 24 hour a day up to two weeks. There are several NIH funded projects on-going in the Sleep Center at this time. Dr. Cartwright is continuing her studies of sleep in the depressed who are untreated. Other studies are testing behavioral treatments of co-morbid insomnia in the elderly, the sleepiness of Parkinson's Disorder patients, and the Phase-Delay Sleep disorder of adolescents.