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Internal speaker-
Professor Matt Jones from the University Of Bristol
C42 Biomedical Sciences Building 17:00-18:00
“The UK Adolescent Health Study: why measure sleep in 100,000 teenagers?”
Adolescent sleep is absolutely central to the final stages of brain maturation and, therefore, to lifelong mental and physical health. However, adolescent sleep is “under siege” worldwide, curtailed by the misalignment of adolescent biology (including later chronotype, slower accumulation of sleep pressure) with societal/environmental factors including school times, diet, noise/light/air pollution and social media use. Current estimates suggest that 60-70% of adolescents live with sleep debt.
The UK Adolescent Health Study proposes to track physiology, behaviour and health outcomes in 100,000 8-18 year olds over 10 years. I’ll briefly introduce my route into sleep research before making the case that integrating EEG with other state-of-the-art devices tracking sleep behaviours is worth the effort, and will generate the first population-scale catalogue of sleep architecture and neurophysiology across the final, critical period of brain development.
Venue : Biomedical Sciences Building
Type: Alcohol Free Events, Free, Talks and Lectures
Start Date: Monday 10-02-2025 - 17:00
End date: Monday 10-02-2025 - 18:00