[Delta Sleep Research Unit, The University of Sydney]

You have only to mention sleep and a conversation on the topic would flow incessantly.  Sleep affects our life in an intimate way, just as does our breathing.  To spend a third of our life asleep seems a waste of our precious life in this world that is highly time conscious.  Yet we need our sleep…   When our body clock sends out its sublime signals, we dutifully surrender to sleep and are contented to enter into a world of oblivion and hopefully, for most people, bliss.  Sleep remains a mystery.  Undoubtedly, with time, scientists will unravel, it looks like, a chemical theory that will eventually explain away what sleep installs for us…

   Chin Moi Chow

 

Are you interested in any of the following research topics?

·        Diet and sleep

·        Insomnia and sleep

·        Exercise training and recovery sleep

·        Sleep and sports performance

·        Sleep deprivation

·        Sleep, physical activity and eating habits

 

Interested in perusing a higher research degree at the University of Sydney and expand your knowledge and develop your skills in sleep polysomnography? New projects now available – direct your enquiries to c.chow@usyd.edu.au

 

List of publications:

  1. Ahmad Afaghi, Helen OConnor and Chin Moi Chow High glycemic index carbohydrate meals shorten sleep onset. Am J Clin Nutr (in press)
  2. Subramanian HH, Balnave RJ, Chow CM. Ventilation induced apnea and its effect on dorsal brainstem inspiratory neurons in the rat. Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology (in press)
  3. Subramanian, Hari H, Chin Moi Chow, Ron J Balnave. Identification of different types of respiratory neurons in the dorsal brainstem nucleus tractus solitarious of the rat. Brain Research (in press)
  4. Aughey RJ, Clark SA, Gore CJ., Townsend NE, Hahn AG, Kinsman TA, Goodman C, Chow CM, Martin DT, Hawley JA & McKenna MJ. Interspersed normoxia during live-high, train low interventions reverses an early reduction in muscle Na+,K+ATPase activity in well trained athletes. European Journal of Applied Physiology 2006 Oct;98(3):299-309.

5.       Atlantis E, Chow CM, Kirby A, Fiatarone Singh MA. Worksite intervention effects on sleep quality: a randomized controlled trial. J Occup Health Psychol. 2006 Oct;11(4):291-304.

6.       Atlantis E, Chow CM, Kirby A, Fiatarone Singh MA. Worksite intervention effects on physical health: a randomized controlled trial. Health Promot Int. 2006 Sep;21(3):191-200. Epub 2006 Apr 4.

7.        Naylor JM, McLean AS, Chow CM, Heard RC, Avolio A, Ting I. Head-down and modified postural drainage positioning in the presence of severe heart disease: cardiovascular and clinical responses. Australian Journal of Physiotherapy 2006; 52: 201-209.

8.       Naylor JM, Heard R, Chow CM. Physiotherapist attitudes and practices regarding head-down and modified postural drainage in the presence of heart disease. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice. 2005 21(2):121-35.

9.       Kinsman TA, Townsend NE, Gore CJ, Hahn AG, Clark SA, Aughey RJ, McKenna MJ, Hawley JA, Chow CM. Sleep disturbance at simulated altitude indicated by stratified respiratory disturbance index but not hypoxic ventilatory response. Eur J Appl Physiol. 2005 Aug;94(5-6):569-75.

10.    Kinsman TA, Hahn AG, Gore CJ, Hopkins WG, Hawley JA, McKenna MJ, Clark SA, Aughey RJ, Townsend NE and Chow CM. Sleep in athletes undertaking protocols of exposure to nocturnal simulated altitude at 2650 m. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. 2005 Jun;8(2):222-32.

11.     Naylor JM, Chow CM, McLean AS, Heard RC, Avolio A. Cardiovascular responses to short-term head-down positioning in healthy young and older adults. Physiother Res Int. 2005;10(1):32-47.

12.    Townsend NE, Gore CJ, Hahn AG, Aughey RJ, Clark SA, Kinsman TA, McKenna MJ, Hawley JA, and Chow CM. Hypoxic ventilatory response is correlated with increased submaximal exercise ventilation after live-high, train-low. Eur J Appl Physiol. 2005 May;94(1-2):207-15.

13.    Ruell P,  Hoffman K, Chow CM, Thompson MT. Effect of temperature and duration of hyperthermia on HSP72 induction in rat tissues.Mol. Cell. Biochemistry 2004, 267:187-194.

14.    Atlantis E, Chow CM, Kirby A, Fiatarone Singh M. An Effective Exercise-Based Intervention for Improving Mental Health and Quality of Life Measures: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Preventive Medicine, 39: 424-434, 2004.

15.    Naylor J, Chow CM. Cardiovascular profile of adult recipients of chest physiotherapy. Physiother Res Int. 9(3): 132-7, 2004

16.    Subramanian HH, Balnave RJ, Chow CM. Behavioural control of breathing in mammals: role of the midbrain periaqueductal gray - Book chapter in Postgenomic Perspectives in Modeling and Control of Breathing. Kluwer/Plenum Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. 2004.

17.    Clark S, Aughey RJ, Gore CJ, Hahn AG, Townsend NE, Kinsman T, Chow CM, McKenna MJ, Hawley JA. Effects of live-high, train-low hypoxic exposure on lactate metabolism in trained humans. Journal of Applied Physiology. J Appl Physiol 2004, 96: 517-525.

18.    Kinsman TA, Hahn AG, Gore CJ, Martin DT, Chow CM. Sleep quality responses to atmospheric variation: case studies of two elite female cyclists. J Sci Med Sport. 2003, 6(4):436-442.

19.    Townsend NE, Gore CJ, Hahn AG, McKenna MJ, Aughey RJ, Clark SA, Kinsman T, Hawley JA, and Chow CM. Living high-training low increases hypoxic ventilatory response of well-trained endurance athletes. J Appl Physiol 2002, 93 (4): 1498-1505.

20.   Kinsman TA, Hahn AG, Gore CJ, Wilsmore BR, Martin DT, Chow CM. Respiratory events and periodic breathing in cyclists sleeping at 2,650-m simulated altitude. J Appl. Physiol. 2002, 92: 2114-2118.

  1. Huang, ZG, SH Subramanian, RJ Balnave, AB Turman, CM Chow. Roles of periaqueductal gray and nucleus tractus solitarius in cardiorespiratory function in the rat brainstem. Respiration Physiology 120: 185-195, 2000.

 

     

 
Created: Chin Moi Chow, October 1999
Updated: Chin Moi Chow, February 2007
Copyright ©, Chin Moi Chow, The University of Sydney, 1999