Our teams: EpiAgeing
After completing a PhD in epidemiology on the relationship between sleep disturbances and the risk of dementia at the Institute of Neurosciences of Montpellier, I continued my research on sleep and brain health during a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (USA). In May 2025, I joined the EpiAgeing team as part of a new postdoctoral position.
My research focuses on the complex relationships between sleep, circadian rhythms, and cognitive aging. I am particularly interested in identifying at-risk populations and elucidating the mechanisms linking sleep and cognition across different epidemiological cohorts.
Research interests
- Sleep
- Accelerometry
- Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias
- Cognitive aging
- Epidemiology
Key publications
- Cavaillès C, Dintica C, Habes M, Leng Y, Carnethon MR, Yaffe K. Association of Self-Reported Sleep Characteristics With Neuroimaging Markers of Brain Aging Years Later in Middle-Aged Adults. Neurology. 2024
View publication - Cavaillès C, Andrews SJ, Leng Y, Chatterjee A, Daghlas I, Yaffe K. Causal Associations of Sleep Apnea With Alzheimer Disease and Cardiovascular Disease: A Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization Analysis. J Am Heart Assoc. 2024
View publication - Cavaillès C, Carrière I, Wagner M, Dartigues JF, Berr C, Dauvilliers Y, et al. Trajectories of sleep duration and timing before dementia: a 14-year follow-up study. Age Ageing. 2022
View publication - Cavaillès C, Berr C, Helmer C, Gabelle A, Jaussent I, Dauvilliers Y. Complaints of daytime sleepiness, insomnia, hypnotic use, and risk of dementia: a prospective cohort study in the elderly. Alzheimers Res Ther. 2022
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