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

Daily scheduled naps improve learning and memory: NUS study

Chance for S’pore to relook attitudes on sleep, use of time

Scheduled naps ‘significantly improve’ learning and memory for teenagers, NUS study finds.

Featuring the centre’s mission on 2024, research highlights, and recent achievements.

The full report can be accessed here.

Sleep:

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

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

Sleep Health:

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

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

BFM The Business Station:

BRAIN WAVES: IS SLEEP FOR THE WEAK?

The Economist:

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

Sleep Medicine:

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

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.

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.

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

Professor Helen Zhou giving a keynote at OHBM2022

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

Health Check Podcast: Is sleep customisable?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Revenge bedtime procrastination in Singapore is coming at a cost.

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

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.

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.

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

Daily scheduled naps improve learning and memory: NUS study

Chance for S’pore to relook attitudes on sleep, use of time

Scheduled naps ‘significantly improve’ learning and memory for teenagers, NUS study finds.