The Cognition and Action Lab at UMass Amherst is
recruiting children (6 - 9 years of age) for a study assessing the effects of
sleep on behavior in children with ADHD.
· Children will wear a watch to
monitor sleep for 10-days
· For 5 days of the study, your child
will follow their normal sleep routine
· For the other 5 days of the study,
your child will go to bed 1.5 hours earlier than they normally do
· There will be approximately 1 week
between these 5-day periods
· At the end of these 5 day testing
periods, you and your child will participate in 2 overnight visits at our sleep
lab located on campus
· During these overnight visits,
children will complete a computer task and wear sleep-recording sensors to
measure sleep physiology during overnight sleep
If you and your child choose to participate, you are
free to withdraw anytime. Eligible children should have diagnosed ADHD, no
other developmental disorders or sleep disorders, sleep ≤ 10 hours/night, have
a bedtime after 8pm (on average) and have normal, or corrected to normal vision.
Children will receive a small prize and caregivers will
receive up to $100.00.
If you would like to learn more about this research,
please contact Amanda:
Phone: (413) 545 – 4831
Email: acremone@cns.umass.edu
