The Link Between Sleep and Mood: Improving Sleep and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic

As part of our series focused on “Mental Health Self-Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic for Health Care Workers and First Responders,” this event will build upon Dr. Cunningham's New England MHTTC presentation on Sleep during COVID-19 from May 2020 by presenting some of the early findings from his longitudinal study, focusing on how sleep affects mood. It will also review approaches for improving sleep and thereby mental health.

Presenter: Anthony Cunningham, PhD

Dr. Cunningham's primary research focus is understanding the role of sleep and sleep loss in emotion and memory processing, and how knowledge of these systems can be applied to clinical populations and the development of new therapeutic treatments. His goal is to understand changes in underlying brain networks responsible for emotional processing following sleep loss and translate this knowledge into effective clinical interventions. Given that Dr. Cunningham's typical research has explored how both healthy sleep and acute sleep loss impact the perception and retention of emotional information and its associated physiological effect, he had the foresight that these systems might be in jeopardy from the very outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Cunningham launched one of the earliest studies (March 20, 2020) specifically designed to determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sleep and mood. The study includes months of daily surveys and larger assessments and is still continuing to collect longitudinal follow-ups at the time of presentation. This rich dataset that explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on factors related to mental health and well-being, such as sleep, stress, and mood, has also been made publicly available to other researchers via open access.

Starts: Dec. 8, 2021 1:00 pm
Ends: Dec. 8, 2021 2:00 pm
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Registration Deadline
December 8, 2021
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