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Photo of Patricia Murphy PATRICIA MURPHY

Dr. Patricia Murphy received her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Bowling Green State University in Ohio in 1995. She first completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Cornell University Medical College, and is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry as well as the Assistant Director of the Laboratory of Human Chronobiology at Cornell.

In graduate school, Patricia's focus was on counteracting the detrimental effects of sustained sleep deprivation on performance using administration of bright light. Her current research efforts involve examining the factors that contribute to age-related sleep disturbance, such as changes in circadian rhythms and hormonal systems in aging.

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Scientific American Frontiers
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