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  The performance and health benefits of sleep in late adolescent athletes (RDF19/HLS/SER/THOMAS)
Northumbria University Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
  Dr K Thomas
Application Deadline: 25 January 2019
An optimal sleep schedule provides the foundation for good health. Adequate sleep has been associated with positive outcomes for cardiovascular, metabolic and mental health, and cognitive, academic and athletic performance.
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  Shaping memories during sleep - how learning-related changes in the sleeping brain impact long-term memory
University of Birmingham School of Psychology
  Dr B Staresina, Dr S Hanslmayr
Application Deadline: 6 January 2019
Why do we sleep? Considering that we spend roughly a third of our lives asleep, seemingly unproductive and vulnerable, there must be an immense evolutionary benefit to sleep.
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  Machine learning and sleep: Detecting neural replay in sleep with EEG classifiers
Cardiff University Cardiff School of Psychology
  Research Group: Cognitive Neuroscience
  Prof P Lewis
Application Deadline: 17 March 2019
Memories are spontaneously replayed in sleep, and this replay is critical for their consolidation (strengthening and integration with pre-existing knowledge).
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  Computational modelling of memory processing in sleep
Cardiff University Cardiff School of Psychology
  Research Group: Cognitive Neuroscience
  Prof P Lewis
Application Deadline: 17 March 2019
How does the brain store memories? Various computational models exist to explain this, but none of these incorporate sleep.
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  Sleep disordered breathing and its relationship to other diseases
University of Warwick School of Life Sciences
  Dr R Huckstepp, Prof N E Dale
Application Deadline: 28 February 2019
Breathing is a vital function that is essential for life, and any disorders effecting respiration have severe consequences. Sleep apnoea (brief periods where breathing ceases during sleep), is a relatively common disorder of breathing, which occurs in ~25% of men and ~10% of women.
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  Characterising changes and covariation in physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep during childhood and adolescence (AtkinAU18SF)
University of East Anglia School of Health Sciences
  Dr A Atkin
Application Deadline: 31 May 2019
Public health interventions often seek to change the amount of time that people spend in particular behaviours, such as increasing physical activity or reducing sedentary behaviour, with the aim of enhancing health.
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  Electrophysiological mechanisms underlying curiosity-based memory
Cardiff University Cardiff School of Psychology
  Research Group: Cognitive Neuroscience
  Dr M Gruber
Application Deadline: 8 February 2019
The PhD project will investigate the electrophysiological mechanisms underlying curiosity-based memory in healthy participants. You will be part of the Motivation and Memory Lab (group leader.
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  Deep learning for well-being assessment using wearable data - PhD
Remedee Labs Data Science
  Dr R Paulin
Application Deadline: 30 April 2019
Summary. Photoplethysmography (PPG) is widely used in wearables to record heart activity.
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  MRC Precision Medicine DTP: Genetic Epidemiology of Rheumatoid Arthritis in UK Biobank
University of Glasgow College of Medicine, Veterinary and Life Sciences
  Research Group: Institute of Health and Wellbeing
  Dr D Lyall, Dr S Siebert
Application Deadline: 7 January 2019
Supervisors. Dr Donald M Lyall. Dr Stefan Siebert. Dr Daniel F Mackay. PhD project summary. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and high circulating rheumatoid factor (RF) are associated with important comorbidities, like cardiometabolic conditions, cognitive impairment, and poorer sleep.
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  5x Fully funded PhD studentship in Psychology
University of York Department of Psychology
The department of Psychology at the University of York is a leading research (4th in REF 2014) and teaching (TQA 24/24) department with over 40 faculty and a lively community of researchers and PhD students.
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