Upcoming study
The Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory is looking for 15 to 19 year olds to take part in our fourth annual sleep research camp, Need For Sleep 4!
Join us this December holiday to learn how your sleep habits can affect your health and performance, to see science in action, have a picture of your brain taken, and most importantly - have fun and make new friends!
Participation is FREE, and you will be reimbursed for your time!
If you are interested to take part, sign up for a briefing session with us, taking place on Saturdays. SIGN UP HERE.
What is Need For Sleep 4 about?In a recent survey, 80% of high school students in Singapore reported getting less than the recommended 8-10 hours of sleep on school nights. These findings are alarming, especially in light of associations found between short sleep and cognitive and emotional impairments. Some of these include poorer school performance, problems with attention and cognition, as well as negative moods such as anxiety and depression.
Need For Sleep is a series of sleep research camps held annually by our laboratory to investigate these associations between restricted sleep and health and cognitive outcomes in adolescents in Singapore, and to explore how additional sleep can alleviate some of these impairments. Need For Sleep 4 aims to explore whether additional sleep is more effective when taken as a daytime nap or simply added to nocturnal sleep, and also to investigate the impact of recurrent sleep restriction and recovery on glucose regulation. Participants will stay at a dormitory for 14 nights, keeping to a fixed sleep schedule, and undergo a variety of cognitive tasks during the day.
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