This video features Dr. Amy Amara, who explains the role that sleep can play in evaluating outcomes related to rehabilitation research. She also reviews the tools available to measure sleep performance on a range of health issues.

Dr. Amara is an associate professor in the Department of Neurology at UAB. She studies sleep disorders in patients with Parkinson's disease )PD) and other neurodegenerative disorders. Specifically, she investigates the impact of deep brain stimulation on sleep in PD and studies the influence of daytime sleepiness on safety in these patients. Additional research interests include the effect of exercise on sleep in patients with Parkinson's disease.

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