SCAN Lab @LabManoach
Sleep, Cognition, and Neuropsychiatry (SCAN) Lab. Find us at the @MGHMartinos center in Boston, MA. Principal Investigator: @manoach_d manoachlab.mgh.harvard.edu Charlestown Waterfront, Boston Joined August 2018-
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While learning a typing task, epilepsy patients show higher hippocampal ripple rates during brief rest breaks than while typing. These ‘offline’ ripples predict gains in speed, suggesting that ripples contribute to motor learning during wakeful rest. nature.com/articles/s4146…
Check out our article that was just published in Schizophrenia Research examining sleeping brain rhythms and procedural and declarative memory in early course psychosis patients and their first-degree relatives! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
In our new article in Journal of Neuroscience, we examine the role of the hippocampus in procedural motor memory during periods of wakeful rest. Find it here!: jneurosci.org/content/44/14/…
Our findings for our closed-loop auditory stimulation during sleep study in healthy adults have been published! Check it out here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37531587/
Did you know that sleep spindles change throughout childhood? Check out this podcast with Dr. Manoach and our collaborator Dr. Chu to learn more! podbean.com/ep/pb-w935g-14… SRS PODCAST (#14): Sleep spindles in the healthy brain from birth through 18 years
Check out our wearable device research featured in Spectrum news! spectrumnews.org/news/capturing…
New child friendly resource on the functions of sleep: kids.frontiersin.org/collections/41…
Check out our interview with Dr. Eva Higginbotham for the podcast How We're Wired! Dr. Dara Manoach and Dr. Bryan Baxter shed light on why we sleep and the lab's upcoming studies. You can listen here: HWWPodcast.lnk.to/Series
The Manoach Lab is searching for a Clinical Research Coordinator starting summer 2023! Check out the application here partners.taleo.net/careersection/… and learn more about our research at manoachlab.mgh.harvard.edu
Check out our research featured in the Harvard Medicine magazine! Sleep Melds Memories- Researchers home in on how the sleeping brain consolidates memories hms.harvard.edu/magazine/sleep…
Check out the SCAN Lab’s postdoctoral fellow opportunity! Email [email protected]. manoachlab.mgh.harvard.edu
Our research featured in MGH Psychiatry News! Targeting Sleep Rhythms to Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia - MGH Psychiatry News mghpsychnews.org/targeting-slee…
#WorldSleepDay 2022 is finally here! Join us today to help raise awareness of sleep health worldwide. Watch for news and activities from World Sleep Day delegates and organizers around the world!
Check out the SCAN Lab’s postdoctoral fellow opportunity! Email [email protected]. manoachlab.mgh.harvard.edu
Read about Dr. Manoach’s participation in the SFARI workshop below!
📢Our @worldwideneuro series continues May 6, 5pm CEST: Dara Manoach @manoach_d @harvardsleepmed @MGHMartinos on "Targeting #sleep oscillations to improve #memory in #schizophrenia" Host: Jan Born @uni_tue Sign up bit.ly/3bh1ccX or watch it live youtu.be/qGh869XIBJY
Great talk by our colleague and friend, Bob Stickgold, about his exciting new book. Recording of the virtual event will be posted on the Harvard Science Book Talks YouTube page, congrats Bob!
Great talk by our colleague and friend, Bob Stickgold, about his exciting new book. Recording of the virtual event will be posted on the Harvard Science Book Talks YouTube page, congrats Bob!

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