Team and research focus
Maurice M. Ohayon, MD, DSc, PhD
A physician and researcher, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Sleep Medicine) at Stanford and Director of the Stanford Sleep Epidemiology Research Center. He developed Sleep-EVAL/Ad-Infer.
Biography and publications on Stanford’s website →
MoodEval explores depression, mood and anxiety in the context of sleep, eating and everyday functioning. It connects participants with Ad-Infer for research interviews that explore their individual experiences.
Interview method
Ad-Infer connects a structured interview with knowledge bases and clinical reasoning. Responses guide the next questions and the exploration of context and temporal relationships. The program combines individual information, family experiences and longitudinal approaches according to the study.
Integrated language functions are directed by the inference engine. Clinical evaluation of the returned information remains within the Ad-Infer architecture.
Scientific evidence and scope
Historical studies evaluated earlier Sleep-EVAL implementations against specialist assessment and polysomnographic data. They describe the configurations assessed at the time. Evaluation of a current version should match its intended use and current functions.
Sleep-EVAL validation studies →
Publications and program archives →
Individual and family participation
During the interview, we may ask whether you can give us a way to contact members of your family. We explain why these family links are important for the research.
The experiences of relatives who have the condition being studied and relatives who do not have it help us explore similarities and differences within a family, including health context and shared experiences.
Discuss the invitation with your relatives before sharing their contact details. Each person decides about their own participation, under the study’s arrangements.
A third party may help a child or an older adult enter responses. Age criteria, authorizations and assistance arrangements are defined by the particular study protocol.
Information specific to the study
To review participation with your patient, contact the team for the protocol, inclusion criteria, participant information and consent documents, and applicable authorization references. The Privacy Policy describes the stated uses of data and requests for access, correction or deletion.
Participation contributes to research. Care decisions continue within the relationship between patient and treating clinician. Arrangements for sharing individual results should be specified for each study.