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The Ambient-BD research project aims to help advance the clinical management of Bipolar Disorder through better understanding the connection between patients' mood episodes, their sleep timing, circadian rhythms and exposure to light.
Find out more about this exciting work below!
Project Overview
Ambient-BD is a collaboration between The University of Edinburgh and Maynooth University. The project is funded by the Wellcome Trust and has close ties with the Circadian Mental Health Network and Bipolar Scotland.
Over the course of five years the teams at both universities will work on five distinct workstreams. To find out more about each of them click here.
The Ambient-BD researchers from Maynooth University and The University of Edinburgh at the project's launch in November 2023.
Get to know the Maynooth research team below and the University of Edinburgh team by clicking here.
Workstream 1
Here at Maynooth University we will be working specifically on the Ambient-BD workstream 1 which aims to assess new data collection methods for their suitability to collect long-term data on sleep timing, activity levels and light exposure in a passive and contact-free way. The collected data will be used to infer information about circadian rhythms. For this we will be looking for 25 healthy participants for comparison to 10 participants with Bipolar Disorder.
25 healthy people
10 people with Bipolar Disorder
The Ambient-BD Team at Maynooth University
Dr Lorna Lopez
Principal Investigator
Department of Biology
Dr Cathy Wyse
Dr Andrew Coogan
Research Fellow
Department of Biology
Department of Psychology
Principal Investigator
Christiane O'Brien
Research Assistant
Department of Biology
Seán Farrell
Research Assistant
Department of Biology
