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Enter how much you’d like to donate as a one-time or monthly donation:
3. Choose ‘Select Gift Designation’
4. Select ‘Other’ and copy and paste in ‘Center for Sleep and Cognition - Psychiatry - PIs: Cunningham | Song’
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Why give?
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Advancing Emotional & Cognitive Health
The CfSC investigates how sleep, dreaming, and sleep loss affect memory, cognition, and emotional processing—fundamentals to mental wellbeing
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Translational Research Meets Clinical Application
Under Dr. Cunningham, the lab is uniquely positioned at the intersection of clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience, turning sleep science into real-world therapeutic interventions.
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Direct BSM Patient Care in Action
The CfSC established the first Behavioral Sleep Medicine Clinic at BIDMC in spring of 2025, providing empirically supported sleep treatment to those struggling with sleep concerns.
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Exceptional Talent & Interdisciplinary Team
The CfSC team and their collaborators span psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, neurology, medicine, and computer science, working collaboratively to tackle complex sleep-related questions
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Dedication to Sleep Equity and Human Rights
The lab regards access to adequate sleep as a human right and actively promotes sleep equity across communities—underscoring both a moral and public health mission.
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Longstanding Legacy, Future-Oriented Vision
Building on over two decades of foundational work in sleep and memory rooted in the lab’s founding by Robert Stickgold, the CfSC continues to push forward—from dream science to memory consolidation—with strategic, clinically impactful directions.
