Home Department: Psychology
Mentor: Andrea Goldstein-Piekarski (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences - Sleep Medicine)

“Associations Between Sleep Disturbance, Domains of Depression, and Emotional Regulation Before and After Sleep Treatment”

Sleep difficulties can affect our well-being by decreasing our ability to regulate emotions, which can lead to depression. In this project, Sloan will explore the impact of insomnia treatments on emotional brain functioning. This will be achieved by collecting and analyzing data through a multidisciplinary approach combining clinical assessments, self-reported data, physiological measures, and neuroimaging techniques. The results of Sloan’s work may help us better understand the link between sleep quality and emotional well-being and could have important implications for improving mental health treatments.