Mark Blumberg is a faculty member in the Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental Science training programs in the Department of Psychology at the University of Iowa. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the APA journal, Behavioral Neuroscience, a member of the Iowa Center for Developmental and Learning Sciences, and is currently President of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology. Here you will find links to his lab and the people who work there, a description of current research, and recent publications. There is also information for prospective graduate students and postdocs.

Sleep--particularly its development, function, and neural control--is the current focus of our research. It is curious that although sleep occupies most of our time when we are infants, the vast majority of sleep research focuses on adults. One overriding reason for this odd imbalance is simply the difficulty of working with infants. We have overcome this problem by developing novel techniques that allow us to probe the neural and physiological mechanisms that modulate infant behavior. Using such techniques, we are now able to investigate sleep during a time when it is prominent and changing rapidly.