Sleep and Health Laboratory

Sleep and Health Laboratory

Assist Prof. June Lo Chi Yan
Principal Investigator

mdclocy@nus.edu.sg

Insufficient sleep has become a health epidemic. It is associated with numerous adverse health and cognitive consequences, such as impaired attention in students and increased risks for dementia in older adults. The Sleep and Health Lab hopes that by studying the contribution of sleep to neurobehavioural functions, we can find ways to improve sleep health and thereby help maximise cognitive potential and improve quality of life across the lifespan.

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Research Focus

(1) Children

  • Investigate the contribution of various sleep features, such as sleep macro- and micro-structure to cognitive development, academic performance and behavioural problems
  • Determine parental factors associated with poor sleep patterns and developmental outcomes in children

 

(2) Adolescents and adults

  • Characterise decrements in neurobehavioural functions among sleep-deprived individuals in our search for an optimal and feasible schedule that enables the best possible cognitive outcomes
  • Investigate the impact of night-to-night variability in sleep duration on cognitive performance and metabolic health, so as to determine whether having a stable or variable sleep schedule can help to better offset some of the cognitive and metabolic impairments induced by sleep restriction across multiple nights

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