Hosted by Stephen Abbot, Patrick Fuller, M.D., PhD is Vice Chair of Research and Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery and Visiting Professor, University of Tsukuba, Japan.

Dr. Fuller's research focuses on brain substrates of behavioral state control, including the temporal organization of behavioral state imparted by the hypothalamic circadian clock. This work spans a discontinuous continuum from coma (irreversible absence of wakeful consciousness), to sleep (reversible absence of wakeful consciousness), to the fullest expression of wakeful consciousness (complete neurobehavioral and electroencephalographic (EEG) arousal).