Core--Sleep Assessment and Resources

睡眠核心将刺激和支持与睡眠相关的心身研究的新的、跨学科的方法。匹兹堡现有的研究社区非常适合这项任务，因为心身中心附属研究人员的强大和富有成效的合作历史，以及匹兹堡大学医学院精神病学系和肺、过敏和危重护理医学部(PACCM)的世界知名睡眠研究社区。睡眠核心的使命是在精神-身体和匹兹堡的睡眠研究社区之间提供双向桥梁。具体目标是： 目标1：提供身心睡眠研究方面的教育。核心活动将侧重于提供进行身心睡眠研究所需的知识和技能。 目的2：研制心身睡眠研究工具箱。工具箱将包括设备、协议开发、质量控制程序和分析工具。我们将专注于最先进的测量(例如，家庭多导睡眠图)和分析(例如，定量EEG和EKG)技术。 目的3：为推进心身睡眠研究提供研究支持和模型开发。核心领导将促进身心睡眠研究的实施和评估。 教育、工具箱和研究支持/模型开发活动将向感兴趣的PMBC调查人员和匹兹堡的睡眠研究社区提供。在PMBC网站上加入材料和中心讲座将把这一核心扩展到世界各地感兴趣的临床医生和研究人员。

The Sleep Core will stimulate and support novel, interdisciplinary approaches to sleep-related mind-body research. The existing research community in Pittsburgh is ideally suited to this task, given the strong and productive collaborative history of investigators affiliated with the Mind-Body Center, and the world renowned sleep research community in the Department of Psychiatry and the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine (PACCM) within the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The mission of the Sleep Core is to provide a two-way bridge between the Mind-body and the sleep research communities in Pittsburgh. Specific aims are: Aim 1: To provide education in mind-body sleep research. Core activities will focus on providing the knowledge and skills necessary to conduct mind-body sleep research. Aim 2: To develop a tool box for mind-body sleep research. The tool box will include equipment, protocol development, quality control procedures, and analysis tools. We will focus on state-of-the art measurement (e.g., in-home polysomnography) and analysis (e.g., quantitative EEG and EKG) techniques. Aim 3: To provide research support and model development to advance mind-body sleep research. Core leaders will facilitate the implementation and evaluation of mind-body sleep research. Education, toolbox, and research support/model development activities will be available to interested PMBC investigators and the sleep research community in Pittsburgh. Inclusion of materials and Center lectures on the PMBC website will expand the reach of this core to interested clinicians and researchers world-wide.