Sleep is not only essential for healthy brain functions but also for maintaining general health and wellbeing. Yet, many studies so far focused on associative relationships rather than assessing the causal role of sleep in restorative body functions. To overcome this issue, our study will use a closed-loop non-invasive brain stimulation approach to modulate sleep and elucidate the role of deep sleep in cardiovascular functions.
We will measure brain activity during the night (EEG) and additional cardiovascular measurements (e.g. electrocardiogram (ECG) and possible other hemodynamic measures) while modulating the deep sleep by auditory stimulation. This project will possibly provide seminal results that will help to uncover the role of sleep in peripheral body functions.
**We offer:**
Become part of a great and motivated, young research team! This interesting project offers the unique opportunity to get hands-on experience with advanced/state-of-the-art electrophysiological and hemodynamic techniques such as high-density EEG, ECG, blood pressure monitoring within one research project. Furthermore, our motivated team is eager to mentor you and provide teaching in many aspects that are related to good clinical practice (e.g. writing SOPs, data management, digital databases, advanced data analysis and statistics) - all essential skills for conducting human research.
**Requirements:**
We are looking for students (preferably German speaking due to contact with human participants) with a background in Health Sciences and Technology, Neuroscience, Human Movement Sciences, Biology, Psychology or related fields of study. Very reliable and precise work ethic are required. You should like to work with human subjects. Additionally, experience with Matlab or another programming language, or willingness to learn data processing in Matlab is required (for Master thesis). For the data analysis, experience with statistical software such as R or SPSS is desired.
Sleep is not only essential for healthy brain functions but also for maintaining general health and wellbeing. Yet, many studies so far focused on associative relationships rather than assessing the causal role of sleep in restorative body functions. To overcome this issue, our study will use a closed-loop non-invasive brain stimulation approach to modulate sleep and elucidate the role of deep sleep in cardiovascular functions.
We will measure brain activity during the night (EEG) and additional cardiovascular measurements (e.g. electrocardiogram (ECG) and possible other hemodynamic measures) while modulating the deep sleep by auditory stimulation. This project will possibly provide seminal results that will help to uncover the role of sleep in peripheral body functions.
**We offer:**
Become part of a great and motivated, young research team! This interesting project offers the unique opportunity to get hands-on experience with advanced/state-of-the-art electrophysiological and hemodynamic techniques such as high-density EEG, ECG, blood pressure monitoring within one research project. Furthermore, our motivated team is eager to mentor you and provide teaching in many aspects that are related to good clinical practice (e.g. writing SOPs, data management, digital databases, advanced data analysis and statistics) - all essential skills for conducting human research.
**Requirements:**
We are looking for students (preferably German speaking due to contact with human participants) with a background in Health Sciences and Technology, Neuroscience, Human Movement Sciences, Biology, Psychology or related fields of study. Very reliable and precise work ethic are required. You should like to work with human subjects. Additionally, experience with Matlab or another programming language, or willingness to learn data processing in Matlab is required (for Master thesis). For the data analysis, experience with statistical software such as R or SPSS is desired.
You will be involved in study preparations (e.g. logistical tasks), the recruitment of participants, the measurements (you will apply EEG, ECG and additional hemodynamic measurement devices, administer behavioural and cognitive testings, and conduct wake and sleep recordings). Furthermore, if time permits or if you are doing a Master thesis you will be involved/responsible in performing advanced ECG and/or EEG data preprocessing and analysis (e.g. heart rate variability in different dimensions or functional connectivity assessments of EEG).
**Workload:**
Your internship/MSc thesis will ideally start in November 2019 and will last at least 3 months. Since the measurements include sleep recordings, you should be willing to work in the evenings and to stay in some occasions over the night in the sleep lab (possibility to sleep there, no requirement to stay awake all night). Therefore, you should also have some flexibility in the working hours.
You will be involved in study preparations (e.g. logistical tasks), the recruitment of participants, the measurements (you will apply EEG, ECG and additional hemodynamic measurement devices, administer behavioural and cognitive testings, and conduct wake and sleep recordings). Furthermore, if time permits or if you are doing a Master thesis you will be involved/responsible in performing advanced ECG and/or EEG data preprocessing and analysis (e.g. heart rate variability in different dimensions or functional connectivity assessments of EEG).
**Workload:**
Your internship/MSc thesis will ideally start in November 2019 and will last at least 3 months. Since the measurements include sleep recordings, you should be willing to work in the evenings and to stay in some occasions over the night in the sleep lab (possibility to sleep there, no requirement to stay awake all night). Therefore, you should also have some flexibility in the working hours.
Please submit a short CV and motivation letter, and a record of your studies to: Dr. Caroline Lustenberger, caroline.lustenberger@hest.ethz.ch; Neural Control of Movement Lab. You can also use this address to ask for further information. We are looking forward to receiving your application.
Please submit a short CV and motivation letter, and a record of your studies to: Dr. Caroline Lustenberger, caroline.lustenberger@hest.ethz.ch; Neural Control of Movement Lab. You can also use this address to ask for further information. We are looking forward to receiving your application.