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Good Intentions but Low Adherence for Safe Sleep Guidelines
 Good Intentions but Low Adherence for Safe Sleep Guidelines 1024 585 JoAnna Pendergrass, DVM
By: JoAnna Pendergrass, DVM

Although mothers are aware of the Safe Sleep Guidelines developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, they frequently deviate from them to try to help their babies sleep better and longer. Research recently published in Pediatrics and conducted by Lara B. McKenzie, MA, PhD, FAAHB, principal investigator in the Center for Injury Research and Policy…

Uncovering Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pediatric Sleep Research
 Uncovering Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pediatric Sleep Research 1024 683 Erin Gregory
By: Erin Gregory

In a recent study published in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Mattina Davenport, PhD, principal investigator in the Center for Child Health Equity and Outcomes Research at the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, explores the impact of biases in clinical documentation on pediatric sleep research. The Motivation Behind the Study Pediatric sleep…

New Approach to Understanding Slow Oscillations in the Sleeping Brain
 New Approach to Understanding Slow Oscillations in the Sleeping Brain 150 150 Jessica Nye, PhD
By: Jessica Nye, PhD

Investigators have proposed a novel model-based approach that leverages data generated during sleep to mimic global slow oscillations in the sleeping brain with closed-loop (cl) Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS). “We’re really interested in the sleeping brain because as we develop, the brain is changing. During sleep, we process information that we learn during the…