Chi Yan Lo
Assistant Professor Chi Yan Lo
Faculty & Department
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Assistant Professor, Psychology, Arts and Social Sciences
Jt Appt - Assistant Professor, Psychology, Arts and Social Sciences
Education
Bachelor of Social Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Bachelor of Science (Psychology), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology), University of Surrey, United Kingdom
PhD, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Master of Philosophy, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Bio
Dr Lo is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. She is the Principal Investigator of the Sleep and Health Laboratory at the Centre for Sleep and Cognition. After obtaining her PhD degree in Psychology from the University of Surrey, she received her post-doctoral training at the Surrey Sleep Research Centre in the UK and the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory in Singapore. Her research focuses on the factors and health consequences associated with sleep deprivation in children, adolescents, young adults, and older adults.
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I am always actively looking for talented students who want to learn more about sleep and well-being to join my lab. Please drop me an email with your background, expertise, and PhD topics if you would like to embark your journey in sleep research.
Insufficient sleep has become a health epidemic. It is associated with numerous adverse health and cognitive consequences, such as impaired attention in students and increased risks for dementia in older adults. We hope that by studying the contribution of sleep to neurobehavioural functions, we can find ways to improve sleep health and thereby help maximise cognitive potential and improve quality of life across the lifespan.
Our research targets various age groups:
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Children:
- Investigate the contribution of various sleep features, such as sleep macro- and micro-structure to cognitive development, academic performance and behavioural problems
- Profile their neurobehavioural functions as they recurrently curtail their sleep on school nights while obtaining catch-up sleep over weekends
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Adolescents:
- Characterise decrements in neurobehavioural functions among sleep-deprived teens in our search for an optimal and feasible schedule that enables the best possible cognitive outcomes
- Investigate how much sleep is needed over weekends in order to eliminate or reduce neurobehavioural deficits induced by sleep restriction on weekdays
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Adults:
- Investigate the impact of night-to-night variability in sleep duration on cognitive performance and glucose metabolism, so as to determine whether having a stable or variable sleep schedule can help to better offset some of the cognitive and metabolic impairments induced by sleep restriction across multiple nights
- Examine how neurobehavioural functions change during polyphasic vs monophasic short sleep
- Study the effectiveness of a novel air-conditioning technology in improving adults’ sleep and daytime functions