Brian Murray

Dr. Brian Murray is a Professor at the University of Toronto's Department of Medicine and holds positions as Head of the Division of Neurology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and Chair of the Research Ethics Board at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.

His major clinical interests are in neurological aspects of sleep medicine, and the relationship between sleep and behaviour. Given the significant physiological and chemical changes in the brain that take place every night, sleep and sleepiness serve as markers of a number of neuropsychiatric conditions. At Sunnybrook, he and his team have built a cutting-edge sleep laboratory with actigraphy, full polysomnographic monitoring, extended EEG, video monitoring, psychomotor vigilance assessment, and portable equipment for use at home. Additionally, they have set up a facility where blood samples (including genetic studies) can be taken from patients overnight, medications or neuromodulation can be given without waking patients up, and polysomnographic recordings can be made. For advanced signal analysis, all information gathered from clinical research assessments is digitally stored. Artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches are applied.

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