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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...

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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Suzanne Bertisch, MD, MPH Instructor in Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Website Wolfgang Junger, PhD Professor of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Website Aristidis Veves, MD, DSc Professor of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical...

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Lab email: SISL@bidmc.harvard.edu Sleep and Inflammatory Systems Laboratory Department of Neurology Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School 330 Brookline Avenue, Dana 735 Boston, MA 02215

The Human Sleep and Inflammatory Systems Laboratory at the BIDMC is an international leader in conducting research on the biological basis for the effects of sleep disturbance and deficiency. We utilize intensive physiological monitoring and testing in experimental models of repeated sleep...

The goal of this project is to investigate two processes underlying increased pain vulnerability in the course of repeated exposure to insomnia: (1) Sensitization of the nociceptive system due to a progressive increase of the inflammatory response and (2) Decreased habituation to pain due to a...

The primary goal of this project is to gather preliminary support for the hypothesis that deficient sleep leads to pain amplification through an inflammatory mechanism while the secondary goal is to investigate the potential mechanisms contributing to blood pressure reduction in response to aspirin...

This project gathered preliminary data to test the hypothesis that sleep maintenance insomnia is associated with a stronger activation of stress response systems compared to sleep onset insomnia. Sleep Research Society Foundation [PI: Monika Haack] 10/01/2010 - 09/30/2012