The sleep doctor is in...
The Center for Sleep and Cognition (CfSC) has been conducting cutting-edge, innovative sleep research in Boston for over 20 years. The lab uses sleep as a tool to investigate the fundamental building blocks of memory, cognition, and emotion.
The current director of the CfSC, Dr. Tony Cunningham, is a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of Massachusetts with research interests at the intersection of clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
Ongoing Research
Our focus is on understanding how sleep and sleep loss maintains or disrupts the underlying brain networks responsible for cognitive, emotional, and memory processing, and translate this knowledge into novel and effective sleep-based therapeutic interventions.
Sleep Loss, Emotion, and Memory Processing
In this study, we are investigating the disparate and overlapping impacts of sleep loss, recovery sleep, and circadian rhythms on the perception, consolidation, and retention of emotional and neutral information.
Stimulation to Enhance the Impact of Sleep
This research, funded by the SRSF, is exploring the utility of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) during sleep to enhance slow-wave sleep in healthy controls and patients with Schizophrenia as a potential non-invasive intervention to improve sleep and cognitive performance.
Sleep Loss, Insomnia, & Emotion Regulation
In this study, we are investigating how chronic sleep loss affects the neural and behavioral signatures of emotion regulation in healthy individuals and patients with insomnia. (funded by NIMH K23)
Book a Speaking Engagement
The CfSC team is always enthusiastic to promote the importance of sleep to the public. Contact us today for more details on being involved in your next public speaking or corporate retreat event, webinar or seminar series, media inquiry, or individual consultation.
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
— Frederick Nietzsche
CfSC Publications
Click here to explore recent work that members of the Center for Sleep and Cognition have led or contributed to.