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Dr. Mahoney has examined the role of orexin in promoting arousal and attention in the presence of rewarding stimuli. With mouse models of narcolepsy, she identified neurons of the central nucleus of the amygdala that underlie the triggering of cataplexy (sudden episodes of muscle paralysis) by...

Michelle is a Senior Clinical Research Coordinator who has been with the team since 2020. Her role includes recruiting and interviewing participants for the SAGES II and BASIL II studies, and she is now helping launch the READI-SET-GO study. She enjoys conducting delirium and neuropsychological...

Jinhwan Choi is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), affiliated with Harvard Medical School. His research background covers sleep physiology and genetics. His current work aims to understand the neural circuitry of sleep and...

Diego Carias is a research assistant for the Scammell Laboratory. He assists post-doctoral fellows with experimental procedures and manages the laboratory.

Mustafa Korkutata is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), affiliated with Harvard Medical School. His work focuses on sleep medicine and neuroscience, with a particular interest in the neuropharmacology of sleep and the mechanisms...

Mudasir is a neuroscientist with over a decade of experience in exploring neural circuits that regulate sleep-wake states, stress-induced insomnia, and consciousness. In Dr. Scammell’s lab, he is interested in exploring the therapeutic potential of orexin peptides to improve outcomes in obesity...

Jonathan W. Waks, MD, is a staff electrophysiologist. He directs the arrhythmia monitoring and ECG laboratories. Dr. Waks’ main research interests involve use of novel electrocardiographic and vectorcadiographic methods of assessing risk for ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. He sees...