The Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital COBRE Center on Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Child and Adolescent Mental Health aims to bridge sleep and circadian knowledge with outstanding mental health research and clinical care.

The Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital, founded in 1931, was the nation’s first psychiatric hospital devoted to children and adolescents.

Links between mental illness and sleep are indisputable; probing and identifying the links from sleep and circadian rhythms to pediatric mental illness and mental health can identify important pathways to prevention and early intervention.

Extending the reach and accelerating the growth of clinical scientists with multidisciplinary training and supportive infrastructure exponentially impacts the potential of improving the health and well-being of children, adolescents and their families.

The Center will mentor and support junior investigators toward independent research careers.

The Center’s research Cores will host training in the assessment of pediatric mental health and in sleep and circadian theory, science, and methods.

The Center welcomes a broad array of faculty, mentors, investigators, research approaches and methods, and research participants.