Dr Valeria Jaramillo
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Biography
Dr. Valeria Jaramillo is a Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ, and a Visiting Researcher at ETH Zurich. She obtained her BSc in Biochemistry, MSc in Neuroscience, and PhD in the field of sleep research from ETH Zurich. She then went on to conduct a short postdoc in the Baby Sleep Lab at the University Hospital Zurich before she was awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoc Mobility Fellowship to join the research groups of Prof. Derk-Jan Dijk and Dr. Ines Violante at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ. Her postdoctoral research focused on REM sleep brain oscillations and their modulation using closed-loop auditory stimulation. She then received a Wellcome Early Career Award and became an Emerging Leader within the UK DRI Care Research & Technology Centre. She leads a research programme which aims at discovering the mechanisms by which REM sleep contributes to brain function using multimodal approaches and to evaluate interventions to improve REM sleep in ageing and dementia.
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Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, one of the two main sleep stages, is reduced in Alzheimer’s Disease and has been linked to cognition, memory and mood. Reduced REM sleep increases the risk for cognitive decline in ageing and dementia, and mortality. Yet, it remains unclear how REM sleep promotes cognition and whether the restorative processes occurring during REM sleep can be enhanced.
The REM sleep & neuroModulation (REMnM) Lab, led by Dr. Valeria Jaramillo, investigates the many and multimodal features that characterise human REM sleep and relates them to daytime function. The ultimate goal is to define how REM sleep promotes brain and body health and how REM sleep can be improved to enhance cognition in ageing and dementia.
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Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, one of the two main sleep stages, is reduced in Alzheimer’s Disease and has been linked to cognition, memory and mood. Reduced REM sleep increases the risk for cognitive decline in ageing and dementia, and mortality. Yet, it remains unclear how REM sleep promotes cognition and whether the restorative processes occurring during REM sleep can be enhanced.
The REM sleep & neuroModulation (REMnM) Lab, led by Dr. Valeria Jaramillo, investigates the many and multimodal features that characterise human REM sleep and relates them to daytime function. The ultimate goal is to define how REM sleep promotes brain and body health and how REM sleep can be improved to enhance cognition in ageing and dementia.