… Study Rationale:     Non-motor symptoms including sleep disturbances are common and enormously impact quality of life in people with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Sleep disruption affects motor function and can occur before … provide the main light signal to the brain for initiating sleep are impaired in PD. Selectively illuminating these …

… Study Rationale:  Non-motor symptoms including sleep disturbances are common and enormously impact on the quality of life in people with Parkinson’s disease. Sleep disruption affects motor function and can occur before … provide the main light signal to the brain for initiating sleep, are impaired in PD. Selectively illuminating these …

… Yo-El S. Ju is a neurologist with subspecialty training in sleep medicine. Her research interests focus on the bidirectional relationship between sleep and neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s … Stage 2 (NAPS2) U19 protocol focused on REM sleep behavior disorder as a prodromal condition with a high …

… Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the European Sleep Research Society. Her research focuses on the role of sleep dynamics and protein homeostasis in neurodegenerative … disease. Her laboratory investigates how slow-wave sleep modulation influences pathogenic protein accumulation, …

… as well as between healthy controls and patients with REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) - a sleep disorder that confers a high risk to develop PD. … affected in PD (gastro-intestinal tract, mood, cognition, sleep, etc.). Proof of an early disturbance in the ghrelin …

… interest is to understand neural control and function of sleep. Using state-of-the-art techniques to target … key circuits for the generation of both REM and non-REM sleep. Recently, her lab has also begun investigating the function and homeostasis of sleep. …