Question: what do you do to do with sleep?

Hayley Moulding answered on 11 Mar 2016:

I measure the brains activity when young children and teenagers are sleeping. I put little electrodes on the heads of children to be able to measure the activity of the brain. I can look at how the activity changes between being awake and being asleep. I am able to look at how sleep is different in some children that have genetic syndromes compared to those children without. I also look at how much they moved during their sleep. I ask the children to wear a watch which measures how much they move and what they do during the day and night. Usually, you should be a lot more still at night time. We don’t know though until we measure it. I also ask them to fill out a sleep diary. Basically, they tell me when they fall asleep and when they wake up, as well as any naps they have. I ask them questions about how they sleep and what there sleep is like, whether they are tired or not.