Quantitative approaches to sleep, genetics, and brain health | Purcell Lab
We apply quantitative approaches to human sleep and genetics as complementary windows onto brain function, health, and psychiatric illness.
Our work is based at the New York State
Psychiatric Institute and
the Department
of Psychiatry
at Columbia
University Irving Medical Center.
Selected works
Sleep
- sleep neurophysiology and psychiatric disease
- sleep and cognition
- sleep across the lifespan
- quantitative EEG methods
Genetics
- polygenic models of disease
- copy number variation
- quantitative genetics
- psychiatric disease
Code & data
- Luna, for sleep signals
- open sleep data (NSRR)
- PLINK for GWAS data
- other tools
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See here for a more complete list of projects, publications and people.