Your Brain on Sleep: Why Sleep Matters More Than You Think

📚Lecture: Your Brain on Sleep: Why Sleep Matters More Than You Think:
🎤Speaker: Vincent Bourgon (Doctorial Candidate in Psychology)

Your day begins before you wake up. How you sleep can shape what you remember, what you eat, how you handle stress, and how well you think, communicate, and perform. Yet modern life often works against sleep through early alarms, artificial light, screens, demanding schedules, travel, and constant pressure to remain productive.

In this lecture, we will explore how sleep and biological rhythms quietly shape everyday life. We will explore what the brain and body accomplish during sleep, why those functions matter after we wake, and how sleep influences memory, attention, emotional regulation, mental health, appetite, social interactions, and physical performance.

Along the way, we will challenge common sleep myths. Can caffeine replace lost sleep? Can we recover on weekends? Does everyone need eight hours? The goal is to help everyone better understand sleep and recognize its influence throughout our daily lives.

Vincent Bourgon is a doctoral candidate in psychology at the Université du Québec en Outaouais, where he specializes in sleep, circadian rhythms, cognition, and human performance. He also teaches courses in sleep, neuroanatomy, research methods, and statistics. His expertise includes studies involving CFL players, women’s contact football athletes, the NHL, NFL, and Canadian Armed Forces recruits, as well as consulting for NFL, CFL and Olympic national Flag-Football teams. At home, he is a father of two that loves to play music!

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Agenda

6:00pm - Doors open: Grab a seat, order drinks and food and settle in.

6:55pm - Host Introduction

7:00pm - Lecture starts

7:45pm - Q&A with Audience

8:00pm - Socialize and make friends, grab drinks