Clinical Neuroscience Research Center
The Clinical Neuroscience Research Center (CNRC) is a satellite of the General Clinical Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh. The CNRC is located on the 13th floor of the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic hospital and comprises five-bedrooms, a nursing station, treatment room, equipment control room, and patient lounge.
Research subjects can relax in the CNRC
lounge area while waiting for their sleep studies to begin.
The lounge
offers a comfortable seating area, a breakfast nook with a microwave and
refrigerator,
and a TV and VCR.
Research subjects sleep in their own, private, comfortable bedroom during the week of their sleep studies. Every bedroom in the CNRC has it's own private bathroom with shower.
The CNRC sleep technician's monitor your sleep in a separate room, the control room. The sleep technician will stay awake all night while you sleep to make sure that you are safe and also to monitor your sleep.
Electrodes are used to monitor sleep. Electrodes are small metal discs applied to the skin of your head and body using an adhesive. The electrodes monitor the activities that go on in your body during sleep. These activities include brain waves, muscle movements, eye movements, and leg movements. The information gathered by the electrodes is sent to a computer in the control room and monitored by the sleep technician. On the first night of your sleep study, your breathing, snoring, and heart rate will also be monitored. A clip on your finger monitors the level of oxygen in your blood and your heart rate. Flexible elastic belts around your chest and abdomen measure your breathing. Your sleep will not be videotaped.
