Toward a Science of Consciousness 2012

Plenary

ANTONIO ZADRA

Antonio Zadra received is PhD in clinical psychology from McGill University in1994 and was a Postdoctoral fellow of the Medical Research Council of Canada at the Hopital du Sacré-Coeur’s Sleep and Chronobiology Research Centre from 1995-1998.  He accepted a faculty position at the Université de Montréal in 1998 where he is now Professor of Psychology.  Dr. Zadra is Director of the university’s Dream Research Laboratory and leads a research group investigating non rapid-eye movement sleep parasomnias at the Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine (CARSM).  His research program centres around the quantification of dream content in normal and clinical populations, on the assessment, correlates and treatment of dream-related disorders, and on the pathophysiology of non rapid-eye movement sleep parasomnias with a focus on somnambulism.

Dr. Zadra has authored numerous scientific journal articles and book chapters on dreams, nightmares and parasomnias.  His research has also attracted considerable attention from national and international media outlets including TV stations such the CBC, CBS, BBC, Radio Canada, Discovery Channel, France 2, RAI International, newspapers like The New York Times Online, Globe and Mail, The Sunday Telegraph, Le Figaro, L'Express, Corriere della Sera, and popular magazines including the The New Yorker, New Scientist, Life, Cosmos, Macleans, and Science et Avenir.  Dr. Zadra’s work has also been featured in several documentary productions including most recently by the CBC, PBS Nova and BBC Horizon.