The psychology of sleep
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Sufficient and good-quality sleep not only plays an integral role in our physical but also in our mental wellbeing. This Collection focuses on the role of sleep in aspects of human Psychology such as attention, emotion regulation, executive control, memory and learning. In addition, insufficient or low-quality sleep can be a trigger, a side effect, or even as a result of poor mental health.
This Collection welcomes papers exploring the reciprocal relationship between sleep and mental health, as well as work examining the potential benefits of psychological interventions in treating sleep disorders. Purely behavioural and cognitive research as well as research using methods such as neuroimaging or brain stimulation will be considered for inclusion in the Collection.
Editors
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Kristina Denisova
City University of New York, USA
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Yuki Motomura
Kyushu University, Japan
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Chen Song
Cardiff University, UK
Kristina Denisova is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York, where she leads the Autism Origins Lab. A major focus of her research is on the role of sensorimotor development vis-à-vis early sleep, as atypical sleep is highly important in early autism detection. Dr Denisova and her team are running several funded projects, including a longitudinal study of infants at high familial risk for autism, focused on uncovering the neurobiology of atypical development in children. Dr Denisova has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2018.
Yuki Motomura is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kyushu in Fukuoka, Japan. His research focuses on understanding the brain mechanisms of emotion and sleep. His approaches include physiological experiments for humans using EEG, fMRI and other physiological indices. Dr Motomura has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2019.
Chen Song is a Research Group Leader at the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre. Research in her Brain Complexity and Consciousness Lab focuses on understanding how consciousness emerges from the complexity of brain structure, by investigating how the structure of the brain differs across individuals and leads to inter-individual differences in brain function and consciousness, and how sleep benefits cognition by improving brain structure for better functionality. From these studies, she and her team wish to understand what constitutes an optimal brain structure, and explore how that may be achieved through learning, sleep and brain plasticity. Dr Song has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2021.
