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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. 

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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

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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
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Dr Lorna Lopez

Principal Investigator 

Department of Biology

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Dr Cathy Wyse

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Dr Andrew Coogan

Research Fellow

Department of Biology

Department of Psychology

Principal Investigator
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Christiane O'Brien

Research Assistant

Department of Biology

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Seán Farrell

Research Assistant

Department of Biology

Contact Us

If you are interested in participating in the Ambient-BD research study, please fill out the below form and we will get back to you.

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