Dr Cameron Van Den Heuvel |
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| Position: | Adjunct Senior Research Fellow |
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| Division/Portfolio: | Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences | |
| School/Unit: | Education Arts and Social Sciences Divisional Office | |
| Group: | Centre for Applied Behaviour Science | |
| Campus: | City East Campus | |
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| Email: | Cameron_dot_vdh_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au | |
| URL for Business Card: | http://people.unisa.edu.au/Cameron.vdh | |
Since the beginning of 2006, he has been with the University of Adelaide but maintains links with UniSA as an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow.
He is the research leader for a large collaborative group investigating many aspects of children's health relating to sleep and sleep disorders. He is also an investigator on studies being conducted at the Adelaide Institute of Sleep Health, Repatriation General Hospital.
Dr van den Heuvel currently is a principal and co-supervisor for both Honours and PhD research students in various disciplines, at both UniSA and the University of Adelaide.
The Centre for Sleep Research, City East campus
Research in the Discipline of Paediatrics, University of Adelaide
Adelaide Institute of Sleep Health (AISH), at the Repatriation General Hospital, Daw Park
Australasian Sleep Association (ASA)
European Sleep Research Society
Professional associations
Australasian Sleep Association
Sleep Research Society, USA
European Sleep Research Society
American Academy for the Advancement of Science
Qualifications
GradCert(Paediatric Sleep Science), University of Western Australia (2007)
PhD, Faculty of Medicine, University of Adelaide (1998)
BSc(Hons), Circadian Physiology, University of Adelaide (1994)
BSc, Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Adelaide (1993)
Research interests
- Sleep, activity and health in children
- Sleep and body weight in children (overweight and obesity)
- Sleep and behaviour in children (e.g. internalising problems, externalising problems and ADHD)
- Sleep and cognition in children (e.g. intelligence, memory, attention, executive function)
- Cardiovascular and endocrine consequences of childhood sleep disorders
- Brain imaging and neural functioning in children
- Sleep and circadian rhythms (the "body clock")
Research publications
van den Heuvel C, Ferguson S, Dawson D. Attenuated thermoregulatory response to mild thermal challenge in subjects with sleep onset insomnia. Sleep, 2006; 29(9): 1174-1180
Kohler M, Pavy A, van den Heuvel CJ. The effects of chewing versus caffeine on alertness, cognitive performance and cardiac autonomic activity during sleep deprivation. J Sleep Res, 2006 (In Press)
Gilbert S, van den Heuvel C, Dawson D and Lushington K. The role of thermoregulation in the soporific effects of melatonin: a new perspective. In: Cardinali D (editor), Melatonin: Biological basis of its function in health and disease. Eurekah: Landes Bioscience (2006)
van den Heuvel C, Ferguson S, Macchi M, Dawson D. Melatonin as a Hypnotic: Con. Sleep Med Rev, 2005, 9: 71-80
van den Heuvel C, Ferguson S, Gilbert S, Dawson D. Thermoregulation in normal sleep and insomnia: The role of peripheral heat loss and new applications for digital thermal infrared imaging (DITI). J Therm Biol, 2004, 29: 457-461
van den Heuvel C, Lushington K. Chronobiology and insomnia: Pathophysiology and treatment of circadian rhythm sleep disorders. Exp Rev Neurotherapeutics, 2002, 2(2): 249-260
Expertise for Media Contact
I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:
Discipline: Physiology / Biology
- Sleep and obesity in children
- Sleep and daytime function in children (e.g. cognition, performance, sleepiness)
- Body temperature (thermoregulation) and sleep disorders/insomnia
- Sleep and the circadian rhythms
Research Degree Supervisor
As an adjunct with the Centre for Sleep Research, I am able to supervise students at Honours and Postgraduate levels in the broad field of human sleep. This area includes (but is not limited to!) the normal functions and disorders of sleep, sleep in infancy and childhood, sleep in old age, developing new treatments for sleep disorders, sleep deprivation and psychomotor performance, and the contributions of sleep to health and fitness for duty in occupational settings.Change | Staff home page help