The metaphor Susan Smalley uses to define well-being is the image of a coin rolling along the inside of a spiral-shaped funnel. Read more...

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The show was sold out, but there were a lot of empty seats in Royce Hall on Monday afternoon.
After it was announced on Sunday that His Holiness the Dalai Lama would be unable to come to UCLA because of a sore throat, many ticket holders opted for a refund. A lecture the Dalai Lama had planned to give in the morning was canceled altogether. Read more...

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Panelists discussed the connection between neuroscience and Buddhism at the afternoon symposium, which proceeded without the Dalai Lama, who was scheduled to speak.

In the process of helping sleep-troubled patients, Mary McCullough saw her own health slowly deteriorate. Read more...

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Zheng-Hua Sun, a polysomnographic technician, is prepared for a sleep test at the UCLA Sleep Disorders Laboratory. With wires attached to patients’ heads and bodies, technicians can monitor the patients’ breathing, heart activity and brain waves.

Calling between meetings in Washington, Chancellor Gene Block talked with Daily Bruin reporter Daniel Schonhaut about his research on sleep and circadian rhythms. Read more...

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Chancellor Gene Block is pictured speaking at the fifth International Nanotechnology Conference in 2009. Block is known for his research on circadian rhythms and sleep.

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