Local sleep research study offering up to $3,500 for participants

BOSTON — Do you like late-night snacking? Do you like binge-watching TV before bed? More importantly, do you like $3,500?

If you answered yes to any or all of those questions, Brigham and Women’s Hospital has the study for you.

Researchers announced they’re studying how light and certain behaviors affect the body clock, specifically late at night. The body clock controls your daily cycles of sleep, hormones, and performance.

The study involves up to a 3-week screening process prior to a 7-8 day inpatient stay at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Researchers say during the 3-week screening process, subjects will keep a consistent 8-hour sleep schedule, including wearing an activity monitor and completing daily sleep logs and call-ins. Subjects will also record what they eat for one week and will be given food to eat for 3 days before the inpatient study.

The inpatient portion of the study will consist of 7-8 days of living in the lab.

“We hope that this research will contribute to the development of recommendations for healthy light exposure and eating schedules and guide treatment strategies for circadian rhythm disruption, for example in shift workers,” A Brigham and Women’s Hospital spokesperson said in a statement.

The criteria for subjects are men and women who are/have: