Research

Areas of interest in clinical research:

• Obstructive sleep apnea and other forms of sleep-disordered breathing
• Upper airway resistance syndrome
• Excessive daytime sleepiness and its assessment
• Behavioral and cognitive effects of sleep disorders in children
• Treatment of sleep apnea in children by tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy
• Sleep laboratory methods
• Computer algorithms and signal analysis to improve utility of sleep study data
• Innovation of new approaches to treatment of sleep disorders
• Optimal ways to identify consequential sleep apnea in children
• Restless legs syndrome and periodic leg movements during sleep
• Interactions between the immune system and sleep
• Sleep and epilepsy
• Oral appliances in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea
• Surgical management of obstructive sleep apnea
• REM sleep behavior disorder
• Insomnia in alcoholics
• Sleep in the post-operative critical care setting
• Sleep and sleep disorders during pregnancy
• Sleep and depression

For more information on both clinical and basic science sleep research at the University of Michigan, please visit our U-M Center for Sleep Science website