The University of North Texas Sleep and Health Research Lab (UNT-SHRL) was created by Daniel Taylor, Ph.D., ABSM, when he was hired at UNT in 2004.

The clinical training arm of the UNT-SHRL is the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Training Program, which is housed within the Clinical Health Psychology/Behavioral Medicine Doctoral program at UNT. In 2007, the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program became the first ever doctoral program accredited in this specialty by the American Board of Sleep Medicine.  

The UNT-SHRL research focuses on the assessment and treatment of sleep disorders with behavioral components (e.g., insomnia, childhood sleeping disorders, coping with apnea).

Our epidemiological research focuses determining which sleep disorders serve as risk factors for increased health problems (psychological and medical), and reduced performance (e.g., academic, work, social).

Our intervention research focuses on randomized clinical trials of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in the treatment of primary and secondary insomnia.

The UNT-SHRL currently has 7 doctoral and 5 undergraduate research assistants focusing on a variety of research topics.  For more information about different students research interests and ongoing projects, please proceed to the link for the Research Team.