The Sleep Medicine Education and Research Foundation (SMERF) granted researchers $75,000 to develop descriptions of the qualitative and quantitative aspects of normative sleep across the human life span. Michael V. Vitiello, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, is the lead UW researcher.
Vitiello, whose work focuses on sleep and sleep disorders in the context of aging, will conduct a comprehensive literature review in collaboration with researchers at Stanford and Brown Universities. They will be looking at measures of normative sleep, as well as the epidemiology of sleep disorders and sleep-related breathing disorders in children, adolescents, adults and the elderly.
The researchers will present their findings at the 2003 annual meeting of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) and publish a series of integrated review papers in a special issue of the journal SLEEP later that year. SMERF is an educational foundation and a research-funding arm of the AASM.
October 18, 2002