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SLEEP 2020 conference
Our lab members will be presenting their work at the conference - now moved to a virtual platform later this summer. SLEEP is the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, LLC (APSS), which is a joint venture of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) and the Sleep...
Challenging the inflammatory response system: Are individuals with insomnia more reactive?
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...
Repeating patterns of sleep restriction and recovery – do we get used to it?
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...
Keeyon Olia
Keeyon joined the laboratory as a co-op student from Northeastern University in 2015 and continued working with us as a directed-study research student. Keeyon is working on 2 projects: (1) The role of urine output in blood pressure changes in response to sleep disruption, (2) Effect of prolonged...