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Sophie Smith

Sophie Smith

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Overview

I am currently a psychology research assistant at CUBRIC working in the Neuroscience and Psychology of Sleep (NaPS) lab on a Wellcome Trust grant focussing on overnight therapy in sleep.

I support PhD projects using Targeted Memory Reactivation to manipulate memory consolidation in sleep. We are particularly interested in how we can apply these techniques to PTSD and depression. 

I am also the producer and editor of our Sleep Science Podcast which aims to talk to sleep researchers across the world on their current research and thoughts. Our interest is making sleep science and neuroscience more accessible so I am also interested in public engagement events on our research.

 

Biography

I completed my Neuroscience degree at Cardiff University, graduating in 2020. Whilst at university, I completed a research year looking at the neurological movement disorder Myoclonus Dystonia using iPSCs. After graduating, I become a science technician working in secondary schools in Wales and England and became a Registered Science Technician (RSciTech) with the ASE. 

I interned in the sleep lab here at CUBRIC whilst studying; supporting data collection and participant managment. Now a research assistant here at the NaPS lab, I am interested in how we can manipulate our sleep to benefit our health. With particular interest in the mechanisms underpinning memory consolidation and how we may alter these mechanisms to improve disorders such as PTSD and depression.

Contact Details

Email SmithS79@cardiff.ac.uk

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