The Bradley Hospital Sleep Research Lab

The E.P. Bradley Hospital Sleep Research Lab, directed by Mary A. Carskadon, is an internationally recognized center for research and sleep and development.

The Sleep Lab is located 15 minutes from the Bradley Hospital campus in two adjacent buildings on the campus of Butler Hospital on the East Side of Providence (300 and 400 Duncan Drive, Providence, RI). This setting is pleasant, with trees, lawns, ample parking, and a congenial ambience for in-lab assessments.

The main Sleep Lab building is a renovated structure that offers about 6,000 sq ft of offices, a conference room, and two attic storage areas in addition to a full, 4-bedroom Sleep and Chronobiology Lab.

Each sleep lab bedroom is comfortably appointed and include tech-controlled climate, ambient lighting, full audio/visual monitoring in addition to data acquisition systems. In addition to the bedrooms, the lower level includes a tech monitoring area, activities space, and small examination room.

The second building of the Sleep Lab, the “Annex,” also has additional offices, a large conference/class room equipped with audio-visual equipment including a bidirectional webinar interface. Additionally, the Annex houses biospecimen processing equipment, additional freezer space, and soon a DNA extraction and ELISA lab.

Researchers have access to instrumentation (polysomnography, actigraphy, wearables, light monitors, etc.) to capture intensive data sets both in-lab and ambulatory, and the scoring protocols, software, and storage necessary for scoring and analyzing sleep and circadian data.