Additional Researcher on team “Hypnic jerking”!

🧠 What we’re learning:

• Hypnic jerking likely involves REM-like motor activity intruding too early into lighter sleep.

• This reflects a failure in oscillatory stability, likely tied to ion channel dysfunction and gap junction breakdown.

• We’re studying WGS data to identify shared variants linked to sleep-state instability and excitability.

🔎 What we’re looking for:

• PhD/MD with expertise in ion channelopathies

• Background in neurology, neurogenetics, or neurophysiology

• Interest in exploring oscillatory instability, gap junctions, and autonomic regulation.

👏 What we’re offering:

• Opportunity to contribute to a peer-reviewed publication on a newly proposed condition: Sleep-Onset Oscillatory Vasomotor Myoclonus (SOVM)

• Opportunity to join a cross-disciplinary research team using whole genome data and systems neuroscience.

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