The Woman Who Couldn’t Wake Up: Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness with Quinn Eastman
Channel: Hypersomnia Foundation
Date: 2023-05-12

Welcome to Living With… a new YouTube series presented by Hypersomnia Foundation. In this episode, Claire Wylds-Wright, CEO of Hypersomnia Foundation, sits down with Quinn Eastman, author of the upcoming book The Woman Who Couldn’t Wake Up: Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness. 

Author Quinn Eastman has been a science writer and editor at Emory University School of Medicine since 2007. He was trained as a biochemist, receiving a PhD from Yale University and then working in Munich, Germany as a postdoctoral researcher. Later Quinn was a newspaper reporter in the San Diego area, covering local government and environmental issues. He now lives in Decatur, GA, with his family.

Claire and Quinn discuss the upcoming release of his book, The Woman Who Couldn’t Wake Up: Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness, which is one of the first books to specifically talk about idiopathic hypersomnia and the Hypersomnia Foundation. Quinn details why he wrote the book. Who are the “characters” in the book? Why he decided to focus on idiopathic hypersomnia rather than other sleep disorders? What is his relationship with idiopathic hypersomnia, and what can people living with IH get out of the book?

Claire loved the book and appreciated that personal stories from people living with IH are at the forefront of the book.

It’s clear that Quinn deeply cares about the idiopathic hypersomnia community, the history around this disorder, and furthering research to create more effective symptom management treatments.  If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to Hypersomnia Foundation’s YouTube Channel and leave us a comment.

To learn more about Quinn's work, please follow him on social media @qeastman on Twitter, @qeastman@sciencemastodon.com on Mastodon and Facebook.  You can preorder The Woman Who Couldn’t Wake Up: Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness, on Amazon and Columbia University Press.

Living With… is hosted by Claire Wylds-Wright with the Hypersomnia Foundation. It is produced by  Elizabeth Joy Windom of Windhaven Productions.

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