Research

• Developing technology to measure sleepiness in young children. It is very difficult to tell how sleepy a child really is. Unlike adults who sit quietly and may fall asleep, when children are sleepy, they often become more active and race around, not focusing on any one thing for long to avoid falling asleep.
• Evaluating the effects that not getting enough sleep has on children's memory, ability to concentrate and perform well on tests. We are comparing how the same children can do when they have had a good night's sleep and after they have had two nights in a row when they didn't get enough sleep.
• Studying the breathing of young infants during sleep to describe normal pauses in breathing and eventually distinguish normal pauses from pauses that might be life threatening in conditions such as sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).