• Question: Why did you choose to record sleep?

    Asked by anon-189272 to Petrina on 13 Nov 2018.
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      Petrina Lau answered on 13 Nov 2018:


      Hi there! our group chose to study sleep fundamentally because a lot of patients with psychiatric disorders show changes in their sleep and wake cycle before onset of any psychiatric symptoms! It makes us believe that sleep regulation and psychiatric diseases development share an overlap underlying mechanism. Plus both disorders are strongly heritable, so we think by looking at sleep disorders we can understand more about what triggers psychiatric diseases. 🙂

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