Janet M. Mullington, PhD

Dr. Janet M. Mullington’s area of expertise and research is in sleep deficiency and its associated pathobiological consequences for host defense systems including inflammatory, autonomic (blood pressure, heart rate, heart rate variability), state-related neurosphysiology, cognitive and subjective fatigue and mood. Her research team uses highly controlled approaches to induce experimental sleep deficiency of different durations (doses) to study effects of the build-up of deficiency in healthy sleepers, as well as the recovery process when sleep resumes. In addition, translational work of her group tests the efficacy of manipulating the timing and duration of sleep in order to affect health outcome indicators. Her group is interested in moving physiology into the field, using wearable technologies and developing scalable trials to investigate the role of sleep in health maintenance and recovery.