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Professor Chee in Asian Scientist Magazine: Can Tech Help You Sleep Better?

“Generally, Asians sleep anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes less on weekdays than their colleagues in Europe and Oceania,” Chee, director of the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Sleep and Cognition Center, told Asian Scientist Magazine. Read more here.

Recent Publication

Sleep:

Effects of night-to-night variations in objectively measured sleep on blood glucose in healthy university students.

Read here.

CNA: Dr. Stijn Massar on sleep deprivation in Asia

Dr. Stijn Massar, a research assistant professor at the National University of Singapore’s Sleep and Cognition Laboratory, shared more about sleeplessness in Asia. Watch the full interview on CNA here.

Q&A with Prof. Chee featured in Oura blog

The Oura Q&A: Sleep Scientist Michael WL Chee, MBBS, FRCP (Edin)

Read Dr. Michael Chee, director of the Centre for Sleep and Cognition Q&A that is featured in Oura Ring blog here.

Recent Publication

Sleep Health:

Performance of wearable sleep trackers during nocturnal sleep and periods of simulated real-world smartphone use.

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The Centre for Sleep and Cognition’s Annual Report for 2023

Featuring the centre’s mission on 2023, research highlights, and recent achievements.

The full report can be accessed here.

In the news

BFM The Business Station:

BRAIN WAVES: IS SLEEP FOR THE WEAK?

BFM find out more about why sleep matters for our cognitive health, together with neurogeneticist Dr Azlina Ahmad Annuar, and Prof Dr Michael Chee, Director of the Centre for Sleep and Cognition at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Listen here.

In the News

The Economist:

Which countries get the best night’s sleep? Asians sleep later, shorter and less well.

View the article featured by Dr. Adrian Willoughby’s work here.

Recent Publication

Sleep Medicine:

Country differences in nocturnal sleep variability: Observations from a large-scale, long-term sleep wearable study napping on cognition.

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NUS NEWS: Take a 30-minute afternoon nap for a mid-day refresh and memory boost

Is there a recommended duration for a mid-afternoon nap that achieves a balance between practicability and meaningful benefits?
This question was addressed in a study led by Dr Ruth Leong and Prof Michael Chee of the Centre for Sleep and Cognition.

Read press release : here.

NBC News: AI technology may be able to generate our mind’s images

Researchers are developing artificial intelligence technology they say generate the very images in our brains. NBC News’ Jacob Ward shares more on the extraordinary research and the concerns about what mind reading technology could mean for the future.

Watch Prof Helen Zhou’s interview here: NBC News.

The Centre for Sleep and Cognition’s Annual Report for 2022

Featuring the centre’s mission, research highlights, and recent achievements.

The full report can be accessed here.

Recent Publication

Sleep Medicine Reviews:
Systematic review and meta-analyses on the effects of afternoon
napping on cognition.

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OHBM Keynote

Professor Helen Zhou giving a keynote at OHBM2022

Health Check Podcast

Health Check Podcast: Does the secret of good sleep lie only with you?

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Health Check Podcast

Health Check Podcast: Is sleep customisable?

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Recent Publication

New research paper published in Nature and Science of Sleep:
Multi-Night at-Home Evaluation of Improved Sleep Detection and Classification with a Memory-Enhanced Consumer Sleep Tracker.

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The Centre for Sleep and Cognition’s Annual Report for 2021

Featuring the centre’s mission, research highlights, and recent achievements.

The full report can be accessed here.

NUHS PGY1 Sleep Study

As part of our NUHS Sleep Study on PGY1 Doctors, we have created a website for participants to download study resources. We will also be posting short blog posts on sleep written by our study team.

Visit the website here.

Recent Publication

A new research paper published in Sleep: A Sleep Schedule Incorporating Naps Benefits the Transformation
of Hierarchical Knowledge.

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Recent Publication

New research paper published in Sleep: Cortical thinning and sleep slow wave activity reductions mediate age-related improvements in cognition during mid-late adolescence.

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Sleep Guide for School-age Children

The Sleep and Health Laboratory has created a guide to better sleep for school-age kids and their parents.

View and download the guide here.

Recent Publication

New research paper published in Scientific Reports – A longitudinal analysis of COVID-19 lockdown stringency on sleep and resting heart rate measures across 20 countries.

View the article here.

CSC Seminars

Is Sleep the Keystone of Healthy Aging?

Date and Time: 21-July-2021, 8:30 AM (Singapore)

Dr. Adam Spira, Professor, and Vice-Chair for Research and Faculty in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins University.

CSC Seminars

Objective daytime napping and neurodegeneration- a bi-directional relationship.

Date and Time: 30-June-2021, 12:00 PM(Singapore)

Assistant Professor, Dr. Yue Leng from University of California, San Francisco, and senior Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute.

Commentary

Revenge bedtime procrastination in Singapore is coming at a cost.

View the full article by Dr. Stijn Massar and Prof. Chee in The Straits Times here.

Recent Publication

New research paper published in npj Digital Medicine: Trait-like nocturnal sleep behavior identified by combining wearable, phone-use, and self-report data.

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CSC Seminar

Maintaining cognitive and brain functions in old age: individual differences and interventional approaches.

Date and Time: 28-May-2021, 9:00 AM(Singapore)

Dr. Shuo Qin from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Best Paper Finalist

The article by Dr. Valeria Kebets and Dr. Thomas Yeo “Somatosensory-Motor Dysconnectivity Spans Multiple Transdiagnostic Dimensions of Psychopathology” has been selected as the finalist for the Somerfeld-Ziskind Research Award, which is awarded annually by the Society of Biological Psychiatry to recognize outstanding research in biological psychiatry.

Read the article here.

2021 Virtual Singapore Sleep Symposium

Brought to you by the Centre for Sleep and Cognition (CSC), YLL School of Medicine, NUS.

The A-B-Zzz of Sleep in Singapore: A Life Span Perspective.

Chair: Prof. Michael Chee.

Archived talks can be accessed here.

An academic year in the time of COVID-19

The highlights of the past academic year at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.

The yearbook 2020 can be accessed here.

In the NEWS

Daily scheduled naps improve learning and memory: NUS study

View the interview with Prof. Chee in CNA here.