Summary
Brain Basics: Sleep is a book to enhance the basic understanding of sleep. Brain Basics: Sleep is not meant to be a comprehensive academic textbook. To simplify and to amplify understanding, models and metaphors are used. Repetition of concepts are used to enhance understanding.
About the Author
Dr. Robert A. Williams was born October 26, 1942 in San
Francisco, California, and grew up in Piedmont, California. He graduated form California
High School in Whittier, California in 1960. Dr. Williams graduated form the University of
California-Berkeley in 1964 with a degree in Zoology and was a member of the Phi Kappa Tau
fraternity. In 1967, Dr. Williams graduated form San Jose Stat University with a Masters Degree in Physical Science. While in college,
he completed an ROTC program and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the
U.S. Army in 1967. Dr. Williams served 2 years in the army from 1967 to 1969 as a missile
scientist at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. He received his Medical
Doctorate from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque in 1974.
Dr. Williams served
his internship in Neurology at the University of New Mexico. His computer background
includes his Masters Thesis, "Automation and Its Software Applications to System
Sensitivities," submitted at New Mexico State University-Las Cruces in 1969, and a
medical school course, "Computers in Clinical Medicine," in 1972 at the Division
of Research and Technology (DCRT) of the National Institute of Health in Bethesda,
Maryland.
Dr. Williams spent 3 years in emergency medicine, including 1 year in Tabuk, Saudi
Arabia. He completed his psychiatric residency in 1982 and his neurology residency in 1983
at the Chicago Medical School. Dr. Williams participated in 1 year of clinical research
involving electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) and was coauthor of two publications on ECT.
Dr. Williams was clinical director of the Affective Disorders Clinic at Maricopa
Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, from 1983 to 1987. From 1987 to the present, Dr.
Williams has been the director of the Biological Psychiatry Institute in Phoenix. He was
medical director of the geropsychiatric inpatient unit at Phoenix Baptist Hospital from
1992 until the unit was closed in 1995. He currently provides an introductory course,
"Introduction to Biological Psychiatry," to the family practice residents at
Phoenix Baptist Hospital.
Dr. Williams in a Unitarian Universalist with hobbies that include art and photography.
He spends his free time hiking and vacationing at his mountain residence in Pinos Altos,
New Mexico.
