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Phone : (617) 667-5243 Email : SleepTime@bidmc.harvard.edu Screening survey: CLICK HERE _______________________________________________________________________________________________ NOTE: the study below is recruiting both women AND men to participate! Phone: (617) 667-5243 Email: SleepRecovery...

This project tested whether restoring sleep homeostasis, i.e. getting adequate amounts of sleep, would be an effective behavioral treatment in lowering blood pressure in patients with prehypertension and hypertension. American Heart Association (AHA) 0530278N Scientist Development Grant [PI: Monika...

This project addresses two important concepts that have not been addressed in insomnia: (1)Response reactivity to a stressful challenge and (2) The ability to habituate to repeated exposure of such challenge. These two concepts may serve as critical indicators of disease risk in the long term. To...

The goal of this study was to test the hypothesis that repeated exposure to cycles of insufficient sleep increases susceptibility to a variety of disease states by progressively compromising the integrity of stress response systems by testing whether the hypothalamic-pituitary, sympatho-adrenal, and...

This project involved a testing of wake maintenance systems using a 64 hour vigil to challenge the inflammatory (measured in blood), metabolic (hormonal and glucose tolerance testing) and autonomic systems (catecholamine and blood pressure) to investigate whether the inflammatory response to sleep...