I am an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University and the Associate Director of E.P. Bradley Hospital Sleep Research Laboratory. There, I direct the Sleep and Neurodevelopment research program.
I study how sleep impacts learning and executive function in youth. We study both typically developing children and adolescents and those with significant difficulties in daytime behavior (e.g., ADHD).
I utilize structural and functional MRI imaging together with topographical recordings of the sleeping EEG and field-based studies of sleep behavior. These multi-modal approaches are combined with both laboratory-based assessments of cognition and behavior (e.g., learning and memory, attention, emotion) and clinically relevant indices of dysfunction (e.g., ADHD symptomatology).