Sleep Monitoring Lab


Sleep Monitoring Lab

Gold-Standard In-Home and In-Lab Sleep Measurement and Expertise

The only sleep research facility in the region equipped for overnight sleep studies to access sleep and sleep physiology. The center has three bedrooms that can be used for polysomnography, the gold standard for sleep measurement.

Sleep Monitoring Lab

Equipment

  • Online sleep monitoring from a central control room, allowing for sleep stage specific manipulations.
  • Bedrooms that are heavily sound-attenuated, temperature controlled, and shielded from electrical noise.
  • Access to real-time recordings from the Control Room which allow for monitoring of data quality and manipulations of sleep.
  • A laundry facility (for washing room linens), and a sink in the control room for washing electrodes and caps.
  • Brain Amp - 128-channel MRI-compatible EEG
  • Live Amp - 32-channel EEG
  • Embletta - 6 portable16-channel ambulatory EEG devices with respiratory (thoracic/ abdominal effort and nasal pressure) and SPO2/pulse rate recording capabilities
  • Sleep Profiler - 6 portable 5-channel ambulatory EEG devices
  • Actigraphy - commercial and research grade accelerometry watches

Staff

  • Location

    S360 Life Science Laboratories
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
    240 Thatcher Road
    Amherst, MA 01003