Royal Holloway Sleep Lab
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The Royal Holloway, University of London Sleep Lab is co-directed by Alice Gregory and Jakke Tamminen
Different pre‑sleep media habits matter. This study shows that how adults use media before bed, not just how much, maps onto meaningful differences in sleep quality, duration, and settling time. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Behavioural sleep interventions can deliver lasting improvements for children with neurodevelopmental disorders, outperforming medication and transforming daytime functioning. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social academic.oup.com/pch/article-...
Therapeutic dilemma: how to treat severe chronic sleep concerns in youth with neurodevelopmental disorders
Abstract. Sleep concerns are very common in children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) and are associated with significant impairmen
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Aligning your last meal with your sleep schedule might be a powerful lever for cardiometabolic health, as this small trial suggests. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Sleep-aligned Extended Overnight Fasting Improves Nighttime and Daytime Cardiometabolic Function
Time-restricted eating (TRE) has gained attention for its potential cardiometabolic health benefits. Existing TRE approaches may have limited adherence and sustainability due to fixed fasting windows ...
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Families in the CASTLE Sleep‑E study showed how parents and children with epilepsy become relentless information seekers yet still face big gaps in credible guidance on sleep. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
‘I Didn't Even Associate the Two Together at All’: A Qualitative Study of ‘Information Work’ Undertaken by Parents and Their Children With Epilepsy to Make Sense of Sleep and Seizures
Background Epilepsy in children presents challenges for families who must navigate the condition itself, along with complex medical information and the emotional realities of daily care. Underpinnin.....
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Celebrating the launch of the Sleep Health Coalition, bringing research, clinical care, public health, and advocacy together to push sleep to the forefront of UK national health policy. @beatrizrvenancio.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social @alice-gregory.bsky.social @thesleepcharity.bsky.social
New infographic from our Snoozify project with RHUL & University of York, key sleep trends at a glance. @beckcrowley.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social @alice-gregory.bsky.social
This perspective spotlights how sleep and circadian disruption sits at the heart of mental‑health challenges for autistic people and those with ADHD and argues for integrated, co‑produced models that centre neurodivergent expertise.
Naomi Mittet@naolimit.bsky.social · last mo.Sleep, circadian, and mental health in neurodivergent neurotypes: Lived experience perspective on the research landscape and roadmaps academic.oup.com/sleep/articl...
Yesterday I had the pleasure of visiting the @sleep-rhul.bsky.social Royal Holloway Sleep Lab, co-directed by Professor Alice Gregory @alice-gregory.bsky.social, a "highly respected expert on sleep", and Dr Jake Tamminen. It was a pleasure to meet all wonderful members of the lab.
New scientometric review maps how autism sleep research has evolved toward specific sleep–behaviour links, emerging mechanisms, parent-focused work, and interdisciplinary approaches. @alice-gregory.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Tracing the Evolution of Sleep-Related Behavioural Outcomes Research in Autistic Children: A Scientometric Review - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Purpose Sleep disturbances are highly prevalent among autistic children and exhibit a complex bidirectional relationship with behavioural outcomes. To provide a comprehensive and systematic understand...
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We’re hiring - Research Assistant for our Leverhulme‑funded project on adolescent sleep, learning, and memory. Ideal for candidates with strong quantitative skills and an interest in sleep research. @jakketamminen.bsky.social @alice-gregory.bsky.social jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Research Assistant
Full-Time, Fixed-Term until 31 October 2026.Applications are invited for a Research Assistant position at the Department of Psychology on the Leverhulme Trust funded project: “How does poor sleep in a...
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In this large wearable‑based cohort, interesting that adults aged 60–69 exhibited the longest average sleep duration, challenging common assumptions about age‑related declines in sleep. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social academic.oup.com/sleep/advanc...
Tracking the night: measuring age and sex patterns in sleep duration using wearable technology
AbstractStudy Objectives. Sleep duration is a key component of overall sleep health, but prior population-level studies characterizing this have relied on
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Great article from @thesleepcharity.bsky.social on how late‑night World Cup matches can pile up sleep debt…but passion never sleeps! @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social thesleepcharity.org.uk/the-world-cu...
The World Cup Sleep Tax: How Fans Can Reduce Sleep Deprivation Without Missing Out - The Sleep Charity
For football fans, the FIFA World Cup is one of the most exciting events on the sporting calendar. But for millions of supporters around the world, following every match comes with a hidden cost: lost...
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A new review takes a hard look at the PSQI’s conceptual and psychometric limits and argues for reframing it within modern multidimensional sleep health. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Thirty-five years of the Pittsburgh sleep quality index: a critical appraisal and a path forward for its contemporary use
Since its publication in 1989, the Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) has become one of the most widely used self-report instruments in sleep medic…
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New research shows that neighborhood socioeconomic conditions, not IQ, are the strongest, most pervasive influences on children’s brain structure and function, echoing patterns linked to sleep loss and stress. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Patterns of brain-wide associations reflect socioeconomics
Previous brain-wide association studies (BWAS) have linked specific environmental and behavioral variables to brain variability. In this work, we mapped 649 variables to children’s brains and compared...
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A new commentary explores the future of multi‑dimensional sleep health. It argues that sleep health and sleep disorders sit on separate but connected axes, introducing a Two‑Continua Model to capture both and strengthen predictive work. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Fascinating new Perspective proposing that “epic dreams” may arise when REM sleep’s normal boundary between simulation and memory freaks down, with possible roles for orexin, MCH, and hippocampal gating. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...
When dreams feel real: the MÖBIUS model - Communications Biology
The MÖBIUS model proposes that REM sleep gating failures may mis-tag (pre)replay-like sequences as autobiographical memory, linking MCH-orexin balance, CA2 novelty tagging and θ-γ coupling to dream-re...
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New review on sleep health in neurodivergent children: successful behavioural interventions are becoming more tailored, addressing sensory needs, medication effects, and family context. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Behavioral Sleep Interventions for Neurodivergent Youth: A Narrative Review - Current Sleep Medicine Reports
Purpose of this review Sleep health in childhood is critical for growth and development, however, neurodivergent children (e.g., children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, Down sy...
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Following a microsleep, arousal-promoting subcortical nuclei come back online in a beautiful sequence, restoring wakefulness and responsiveness. This video captures such a recovery in a drowsy participant performing an attention task. Details: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.26.728061v1
AASM’s latest deep dive breaks down the fast‑moving world of insomnia tech, from wearables to nearables to brain‑stimulation devices, highlighting what’s evidence based and what clinicians should know. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social aasm.org/staying-curr...
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Adolescent sleep gets framed as both a normal developmental shift and a serious health risk—this new analysis of NZ media shows how mixed messages leave parents carrying the burden of managing teen sleep. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“Just a phase” and “serious risk”? Discourses of sleep during adolescence in online news media
Adolescence is accompanied by profound changes in sleep—shaped by an interplay of biological, psychological, and social factors. Despite increased emp…
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Children across the UK are sleeping on floors and sofas due to bed poverty; join Derrick Evans MBE in demanding every child has a safe place to sleep. Add your name to the petition and help end this crisis today. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social www.change.org/p/address-ch...
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Address child bed poverty. No child should ever have to sleep on the floor.
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Great news that the University of Arizona group has received a $3.8M NIH grant to explore how late‑night wakefulness affects cognition, emotion, and suicide risk through the Mind After Midnight framework. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social news.arizona.edu/news/new-38m...
New $3.8M NIH grant funds research on 'mind after midnight' as a suicide risk factor
Researchers in the Department of Psychiatry are studying the effects of being awake between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. on decision-making.
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This study highlights how cognitive fusion, sleep hygiene and sleep control beliefs jointly influence insomnia severity. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Objectives Insomnia is associated with mental ill health, worry and rumination—the two latter contribute to pre-sleep cognitive arousal. These variables also associate with psychological inflexibili...
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Exploring how sleep connects humans, animals, and the planet — a new One Sleep Health framework @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Elevating sleep to a global health priority: The One Sleep Health framework
Sleep health is increasingly disrupted by physical, social, and lifestyle factors across species, revealing shared vulnerabilities within ecosystems. Tahmasian et al. introduce the One Sleep Health fr...
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New research finds CBT‑I lifts depression mainly by improving sleep itself, not by changing emotional brain activity. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Examining fronto-limbic brain and sleep mechanisms of antidepressant effects in cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Examining fronto-limbic brain and sleep mechanisms of antidepressant effects in cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia
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Interesting comments about the validity of wearables sleep data. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social thesciencebehindwearables.substack.com/p/how-well-c...
How Well Can Your Wearable Track Sleep? What The Research Says
How your wearable calculates sleep stages, what three independent validation studies found when comparing consumer devices to polysomnography, and how to read your sleep data knowing its limits.
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Children who added just 30 minutes of sleep a night showed meaningful boosts in their overall quality of life. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The impact of a sleep extension intervention on child health-related quality of life
To examine the effect of a brief behavioral intervention aimed at optimizing sleep duration in children on their overall health-related quality of lif…
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Sleep‑deprived athletes bounced back best after a 90‑min nap, showing stronger power, faster sprints, and better recovery than with shorter naps. @jakketamminen.bsky.social @alice-gregory.bsky.social www.apunts.org/en-the-effec...
The effects of 40-, 60- and 90-minute nap durations on physical and physiological performance after sleep deprivation: A experimental study on male university soccer players | Apunts Sports Medicine
AimThis study investigates the effects of various nap durations (40, 60, and 90 min) on physical and
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Sharing our director’s new paper on how smartphone restrictions affect children who rely on them for medical care, a reminder of why our lab is working to build understanding of sleep and type 1 diabetes. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
When a smartphone‐free childhood is not a choice: Recognising smartphones as essential medical devices
Recently there have been initiatives to ban or reduce the use of smartphones in children and young people. While exemptions are typically made for tho…
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New study maps a U‑shaped link between sleep duration and biological ageing with 6.4–7.8 hours emerging as the sweet spot for longevity. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sleep chart of biological ageing clocks in middle and late life - Nature
A cross-organ, multi-omics U-shaped relationship between sleep duration and biological ageing clocks highlights the potential of sleep optimization to promote healthy ageing, lower disease risk and ex...
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