“Sleep: The Final Frontier” is the topic of NAMI-Yolo’s next monthly potluck dinner and meeting, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in the César Chávez housing complex conference room, 1220 Olive Drive in Davis.

Mental health consumers, family members, friends and interested community members are invited to the free event.

The speaker is Manoj V. Waikar, a board-certified psychiatrist in private practice in Palo Alto and Los Gatos and formerly an adjunct clinical instructor at Stanford University School of Medicine.

He will present mounting medical evidence that sleep, in its many forms and stages, is a predominant contributor to well-being, and discuss “sleep architecture,” the underlying infrastructure to sleep that is made up of numerous stages that reveal themselves through a period of slumber.

Waikar also will address when sleep architecture is dissonant, in particular the overlap between mental illness and sleep dysfunction. Sleep dysfunction among people with serious mental illness is almost universal.

On Wednesday, the potluck dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. and the speaker follows at 7:30 p.m.All are asked to bring a dish to share if they can, but are welcome even if they can’t. Those with last names beginning with A-H are asked to bring a main dish, I-P a salad and Q-Z a dessert.

NAMI-Yolo — a chapter of NAMI, the Nation’s Voice on Mental Illness — provides education, advocacy and support for people living with mental illness. For more information, call (530) 756-8181 or visit http://www.namiyolo.org.

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