People
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Allison Harvey, Ph.D.
Allison Harvey is a Professor of Clinical Psychology, Clinical Psychologist (License #PSY 22682) and Director of the Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Harvey is also an adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her clinical training and PhD were completed in Sydney, Australia. Dr. Harvey then moved to the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and then became a faculty member in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford. She was also a Fellow of St. Anne's College. In 2004 she moved to UC Berkeley.
Dr. Harvey's research interests focus on chronic insomnia, understanding the role of sleep disturbance across psychiatric disorders (particularly bipolar disorder), and sleep across development (particularly during adolescence). Her group uses a multi-systems and mechanisms-focused framework to treatment development in which (a) cognitive, affective, biological, behavioral and developmental contributors to sleep disturbance are emphasized as the source for deriving novel interventions and (b) intervention research is used to develop hypotheses about and/or confirm mechanisms. She is particularly interested in comorbidity and transdiagnostic approaches.
Dr. Harvey's research is funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health. The studies currently in progress are focused on sleep disturbance in teens with depression, in adults with bipolar disorder and in adults with chronic insomnia that is comorbid with depression and anxiety. She serves on national and international committees such as the Executive Committee of the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science and the Research Committee and the Congressional Liaison Group for the Sleep Research Society. Dr. Harvey has published over 130 research articles and book chapters and has authored two books. Her research has been acknowledged with various awards including recognition from the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (1998), the American Association for Behavior Therapy (2003), the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research (2005-2006) and NARSAD (2006-2008). Dr. Harvey received an honorary doctorate from the University of Örebro, Sweden in February, 2011.
Listen to Dr. Harvey's guest appearance on the radio program "Childhood Matters" with Rona Renner, RN. In this 8/29/10 broadcast Dr. Harvey discusses the importance of sleep for teenagers. Listen Here
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Jamie Rifkin, Ph.D.
Jamie Rifkin is a clinical psychologist in the Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his bachelor's degree from Columbia University, where he was a psychology major. After college, Jamie worked on an NIMH-funded study looking at non-pharmacological treatments for Seasonal Affective Disorder at Columbia University Medical School/New York State Psychiatric Institute. Jamie completed his PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas in 2007, where he also completed his predoctoral clinical internship. Jamie completed a clinical postdoctoral residency at Allendale Association, a residential treatment facility for children and adolescents, where he worked with individuals, groups, and families in psychotherapy. He also served as a consultant to school and residential personnel regarding his clients. Jamie is a licensed psychologist in California and in Illinois. His clinical interests include the assessment and treatment of various psychological disorders, particularly psychological interventions for depression and insomnia. Jamie taught Psychology of Personality (PSYCH 150) at the University of California, Berkeley during the Spring 2010 semester.
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Kerrie Hein, Project Coordinator
Kerrie says that she shouldn’t have been surprised that, when she told her coworkers at University Extension that she was leaving to become a Project Coordinator for a sleep study, some of them immediately asked if they could enroll! She is thrilled to be bringing her administration skills to Sleep Lab and furthering her interests in clinical psychology research and public health. Her special interests are sleep, depression prevention, and emotional literacy. When she’s not in the lab you can find her enjoying the beautiful Berkeley gardens as she walks her Australian Shepherd, Sally.
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Teresa Caffe, RPSGT
Teresa is the polysomnography supervisor for the sleep lab. She graduated from University of California, Santa Cruz with a bachelor's degree in psychology. She received her sleep technology training while working at the Central Coast Sleep Disorders Center within the Watsonville Community Hospital. Teresa became a licensed sleep technologist in 2006. She has been working on the Insomnia Treatment Study since joining the lab in 2008. When she's not at the lab, Teresa enjoys reading, hiking, and playing with her pug.
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Jason Hartman, PSG Team
Jason is the assistant polysomnography supervisor. He has been working in the Harvey Lab since March 2008 and earned his BA in Psychology from UC Berkeley with highest honors in 2009. He is currently applying to medical school and is very interested in Emergency Medicine and Neurology. Jason teaches an MCAT prep course and volunteers in the ER in his spare time. He also enjoys driving and working on turbocharged automobiles and reading novels.
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Taiala Tatakamotonga, Research Assistant
Taiala is a fourth year undergraduate student at UC Berkeley and will be graduating in the spring of 2012 with her B.A in psychology. She is currently a research assistant at the Golden Bear Sleep and Mood research clinic for Professor Harvey. Taiala is also an undergraduate student peer adviser for the department of psychology. In her spare time, she likes spending time with family and friends and enjoys traveling.
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Anda Gershon, Ph.D.
Anda Gershon recently completed an NRSA-funded postdoctoral fellowship at the Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Clinic. During this fellowship she designed and conducted a prospective research study examining the impact of stress, mood variability, social rhythm disruption, and sleep disturbance, on illness course in bipolar disorder. Anda completed her Ph.D. in Personality and Psychopathology with the mentorship of Dr. Ian H. Gotlib, at the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Laboratory of the Psychology Department at Stanford University. For her dissertation research she conducted a longitudinal study examining the role of acute and chronic stress in the first onset of psychiatric disorders in adolescent daughters of depressed mothers. Anda earned her B.A. (with Honors) from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Anda's research interests focus on the intersection between social environmental and biological factors in the course of mood disorders. In her research, Anda uses longitudinal designs and prospective daily assessment methods including daily sleep and mood diaries and actigraphy. During her fellowship, Anda led a multi-year training group in the administration and coding procedure of the Life Events and Difficulties Schedule (LEDS; Brown & Harris, 1978), an interview method for the assessment of stress. Anda completed the Limited Clinical Training Program through the Clinical Science Program at UC Berkeley. In the summer of 2010 she taught Psychology of Personality (Psych 150) through the Department of Psychology at UC Berkeley.
Awards:
-2007-2010 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32), the National Institutes of Mental Health.
Selected Publications:
-Eidelman, P., Gershon, A., McGlinchey, E., & Harvey, A.G. (in press). Sleep and Psychopathology. In C.A. Espie and C.M. Morin (Eds). Handbook of Sleep and Sleep Disorders, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
-Harvey, A.G., Talbot, L.S., & Gershon, A. (2009). Sleep disturbance in bipolar disorder across the lifespan. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 16, 256-277.
-Harvey, A.G., Hairston, I.S., Gruber, J., & Gershon, A. (2007). Anxiety and sleep. Invited chapter. In Antony, M. M., & Stein, M. B. (Eds.), Handbook of Anxiety and the Anxiety Disorders. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
-Harvey, A.G., Hairston, I.S., Gershon, A., & Gruber, J.L. (2006). Special Considerations in Insomnia Treatment. In C.A. Kushida (Ed.), Handbook of Sleep Disorders. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Natasha Dagys, M.A.
Natasha is a second-year doctoral student in School Psychology at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Education. She completed her BA in 2009 and her MA in 2010, both at UC Berkeley. Since 2006 Natasha has been working at the Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic with a special interest in the consequences of sleep deprivation on emotion regulation during adolescence. She is currently works as an assessor in the Young Adults and Teen Sleep Study (YATSS), which compares two therapeutic approaches for youth with depression and insomnia. In addition, she coordinates Hispanic recruitment for some of the studies being conducted in the lab. During the summer of 2010, Natasha taught Introduction to Psychology at UC Berkeley's Academic Talent Development Program (ATDP). She will serve as a Graduate Student Instructor for the Psychology of Sleep course in the Fall of 2010. In her spare time, she enjoys playing the piano, traveling, whitewater rafting, and eating excellent dark chocolate.
Publications:
-Harvey, A.G. & Dagys, N. (in press). Sleep disorders in adults. In P. Sturmey & M. Hersen (Eds.), Handbook of Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Psychology, Vol. II. Wiley USA.
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Manuela Gander, Visiting Student
Manuela is a visiting scholar at the Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic. She is a second-year doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at the University of Innsbruck and has done research in Austrian schools and at the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in London.
Manuela’s research interests are the impact of sleep disturbance in adolescence, its contribution to the symptoms of depression and bipolar disorders and the possible interventions. As her PhD thesis is on the different ways to identify depressive adolescents in school, she wants to find out more about the school’s role in terms of sleep disturbance, i.e. how can teachers recognize sleep problems, how can sleep problems influence a teenager’s school performance and how can schools promote better sleep habits.
Awards:
2010-2011: Research scholarship of the vice-rector of research in Innsbruck
2010: Academic Excellence Scholarship of the University of Innsbruck
Publications:
Gander , M. (2011, March). Internalising symptoms in depressive adolescents: Manifestations and ways of identification in school. Paper presented at the 32 nd Congress of the German Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Essen, Germany.
Gander , M. (2010). Shell Shock during the First World War: Diagnosis and Treatment in the Austrian-Hungarian Army. Zeit-Raum-Innsbruck, 11, 13-32.
Hedvik Elisabeth Fosse, Visiting Student
Hedvik Elisabeth Fosse is a visiting student at the Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley. Hedvik is licensed a clinical psychologist in Norway, and completed her degree at the University of Bergen (Norway) in 2007. She is now a doctoral student at Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health/University of Bergen
Her research interests are sleep disturbance across the age range, and the association between sleep and psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents.
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Ingvild Berg Saksvik, Visiting Student
Ingvild is a licensed psychologist and a PhD candidate at the University of Bergen, Norway. She worked as a research fellow at the University of Bergen in 2008. Further, she has held a position as PhD research fellow at the University of Bergen since January 2009 and plans to complete her PhD degree in December 2011. Her dissertaion focuses on shift work, sleep and health. Her research interests are related to how individuals handle and cope with work and leisure time, especially in relation to sleep, stress and health. Also she is interested in personality, resistance to change and clinical psychology.
Publications:
-Saksvik, I. B., Bjorvatn, B., Hetland, H., Sandal, G. M. & Pallesen S (submitted). Individual differences in tolerance to shift work. A systematical review. Sleep Medicine Reviews.
- Pallesen, S. Bjorvatn, B. Magerøy, N. Saksvik, I. B. Waage, S. & Moen, B. E. (2010). Measures to counteract the negative effects of night work. Scandinavian Journal of Work and Environmental Health, 36, 109-120
- Saksvik, I. B., Hetland, H. (2009). Exploring Resistance to Change. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 16. 135-155
- Saksvik, I. B. & Hetland, H. (2009) Resistance to organizational change Individual reactions to change on the emotional, attitudinal and behavioural level. In Saksvik, P. Ø (ed) Prerequisites for organizational change. Ebook. Bentham Science Publishers.
- Oreg, S., Bayazit, M., Arciniega, L., Armaenakis, A., Barakauskiene, R., Bozionelos, N. . . . van Dam, K. (2008). Dispositional resistance to change: Measurement equivalence and the link to personal values across 17 nations. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93, 935-944.
Graduate Students
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Lisa Talbot
Lisa is a graduate student in the clinical science program who is completing her clinical internship at the VA Northern California Health Care System in Martinez, California in 2010-2011. She received an M.A. in 2008 from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. in 2000 from Stanford University. Her interests lie in sleep, psychiatric disorders, and health risk behaviors. As a graduate student, Lisa has worked on studies examining the relationship between sleep and affect in adults with bipolar disorder, adults with insomnia, and healthy adolescents. She has also examined cognitive processes involved in insomnia. Lisa served as a therapist on an RCT investigating the effects of three different psychological treatments for insomnia and as a therapist intern in the UC Berkeley Psychology Clinic. She worked as a Graduate Student Instructor for undergraduate courses at Berkeley including Clinical Psychology and the Psychology of Sleep and as an Instructor for the Clinical Psychology course in The Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) at Stanford University.
Prior to graduate school, Lisa worked as a research coordinator in Dr. Ian Gotlib's Mood and Anxiety Disorders Lab at Stanford University on a study examining the intergenerational transmission of depression. As an undergraduate, Lisa served as a Teaching Assistant for Dr. William Dement's Sleep and Dreams course at Stanford University. Outside the lab, Lisa enjoys judging figure skating and playing tennis.
Publications:
-Talbot, L.S., Hairston, I.S., Eidelman, P., Gruber, J., & Harvey, A.G. (2009). The effect of mood on sleep onset latency and REM sleep in interepisode bipolar disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 118(3), 448-458.
-Talbot, L.S., McGlinchey, E.L., Kaplan, K.A., Dahl, R.E., & Harvey, A.G. (in press). Sleep deprivation in adolescents and adults: Changes in affect. Emotion.
-Talbot, L.S., & Harvey, A.G. (2010). Cognitive-behavioral models of insomnia. In Sateia, M.J., & Buysse, D.J. (Eds.), Insomnia: Diagnosis and Treatment. Informa Healthcare.
-Joormann, J., Talbot, L.S., & Gotlib, I.H. (2007). Biased processing of emotional information in girls at risk for depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 116(1), 135-143.
-Persons, J.B., & Talbot, L.S. (in press). Developing and using a case formulation to guide cognitive-behavioral therapy. In Hofmann, S., & Reinecke, M.A. (Eds.), Cognitive-behavioral therapy with adults: A guide for assessment, conceptualization, and intervention. Cambridge University Press.
-Harvey, A.G., Talbot, L.S., & Gershon, A.G. (2009). Sleep disturbance in bipolar disorder across the lifespan. Clinical Psychology, Science and Practice 16, 256-277.
-Kaplan, K., Talbot, L.S., & Harvey, A.G. (2009). Cognitive mechanisms in chronic insomnia: Processes and prospects. Sleep Medicine Clinics 4(4), 541-548.
-Hairston, I.S., Talbot, L.S., Eidelman, P., Gruber, J., & Harvey, A.G. (2010). Sensory gating during sleep and wake in primary insomnia: The role of K complexes. European Journal of Neuroscience: Cognitive Neuroscience 31, 2112-2121.
-Harvey, A.G., & Talbot, L.S. (in press). Behavioral experiments. In Perlis, M., Aloia, M. & Kuhn, B. (Eds.), Behavioral Sleep Medicine Treatment Protocols.
-Harvey, A.G., & Talbot, L.S. (in press). Intervention to reduce misperception. In Perlis, M., Aloia, M. & Kuhn, B. (Eds.), Behavioral Sleep Medicine Treatment Protocols.
-Eidelman, P., Talbot, L.S., Gruber, J., & Harvey, A.G. (in press). Sleep, illness course, and concurrent symptoms: Toward an empirically-based treatment for sleep disturbance in interepisode bipolar disorder. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.
-Eidelman, P., Talbot, L.S., Gruber, J., Hairston, I.S., & Harvey, A.G. (in press). Sleep architecture as a correlate and predictor of symptoms and impairment in inter-episode bipolar disorder: Taking on the challenge of medication effects. Journal of Sleep Research.
-Harvey, A.G., Eidelman, P., & Talbot, L.S. (2008). Sleep disorders. In Craighead, E.W., Craighead, L.W., & Miklowitz, D.J. (Eds.), Psychopathology: History, Diagnosis, and Empirical Foundations. John Wiley and Sons.
Awards:
-2007-2010: NRSA Institutional Research Training Grant in Affective Science
-2010: The Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP) Dissertation Grant
-2010: Beck Institute Scholarship Recipient
-2009-2010: P.E.O. Scholar Award, P.E.O. International
-2009: Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California, Berkeley
-2006, 2007: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mention
-2005, 2006: University Regents Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
www.LisaSTalbot.com
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Polina Eidelman
Polina is a sixth-year student in the clinical psychology graduate program. She is currently doing her clinical internship at the VA Hospital, Palo Alto. Polina is also in the process of completing her dissertation, entitled "Social Support and Social Strain in Inter-episode Bipolar Disorder". She received her M.A. in 2008. In the Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Clinic at UC Berkeley, Polina worked on the Sleep, Mood, and Emotion study that involved examinations of mood, sleep characteristics, and sleep architecture in Bipolar Disorder and the predictive value of sleep for longitudinal illness course in Bipolar Disorder. Polina also worked on the Daily Rhythms study, which utilizes a daily diary methodology to investigate sleep, mood, and social support/strain interactions in individuals diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder over the course of 8 consecutive weeks. Additionally, Polina has worked as a therapist in a randomized controlled trial of cognitive, behavioral, and cognitive behavioral therapies for insomnia. Polina was a Graduate Student Instructor in the Psychology Department from 2007 to 2010 for courses such as Clinical Psychology, Sleep, Cultural Psychology, and Emotion. She was a therapist intern in the UC Berkeley Psychology Clinic from 2006 to 2009. She graduated from Brandeis University in 2003 with a B.A. in psychology. Before starting graduate school, Polina was a research coordinator at Massachusetts General Hospital for the Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder.
Publications:
- Eidelman, P., Talbot, L., Gruber, J., Hairston, I. & Harvey, A.G. (In press).Sleep architecture as a correlate and predictor of mood symptoms and impairment in inter-episode bipolar disorder.disorder. Journal of Sleep Research.
- Eidelman, P., Talbot, L., Gruber, J., & Harvey, A.G. (2010). Sleep, illness course, and concurrent symptoms: toward an empirically-based treatment for sleep disturbance in inter-episode bipolar disorder. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 41, 145-149.
- Eidelman, P., Talbot, L., Gruber, J., & Harvey, A.G. (2010). Sleep, illness course, and concurrent symptoms: toward an empirically-based treatment for sleep disturbance in inter-episode bipolar - Eidelman, P., Gershon, A., McGlinchey, E., & Harvey, A.G. (In press). Sleep and psychopathology. Oxford Handbook of Sleep Disorders (C.A. Espie and C.M. Morin, Eds.).
- Hairston, I.S., Talbot, L.S., Eidelman, P., Gruber, J., & Harvey, A.G. (In press). Sensory gating in primary insomnia. European Journal of Neuroscience: Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Harvey, A.G., & Eidelman, P. (In press). Intervention to reduce unhelpful beliefs about sleep. In Perlis, M., Aloia, M. & Kuhn, B. (Eds) Behavioral Sleep Medicine Treatment Protocols.
- Harvey, A.G., & Eidelman, P. (In press). Intervention to reduce use of safety behaviors. In Perlis, M., Aloia, M. & Kuhn, B. (Eds) Behavioral Sleep Medicine Treatment Protocols.
- Talbot, L.S., Hairston, I., Eidelman, P., Gruber, J., & Harvey, A.G. (2009). The effect of mood on sleep onset latency in bipolar disorder during the inter-episode period. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118, 448-458.
- Gruber, J., Eidelman, P., & Harvey, A. G. (2008). Transdiagnostic emotion regulation processes in bipolar disorder and insomnia. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 46, 1096-1100.
- Ostacher, M.J., Nierenberg, A.A., Iosifescu, D.V., Eidelman, P., Lund, H.G., Ametrano, R.M., Kaczynski, R., Calabrese, J., Miklowitz, D.J., Sachs, G.S., & Perlick, D.A. (2008). Correlates of subjectiveand objective burden among caregivers of patients with bipolar disorder. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 118, 49-56.
- Harvey, A.G., Eidelman, P., & Talbot, L.S. (2008). Sleep Disorders. In W.E. Craighead, D.J. Miklowitz, & L.W. Craighead (Eds.), Psychopathology: History, Diagnosis, and Empirical Foundations. Wiley & Sons.
- Nierenberg, A.A., Smoller, J.W., Eidelman, P., Wu, Y.P., & Tilley, C.A. (2008). Critical thinking about adverse drug effects: lessons from the psychology of risk and medical decision-making for clinical psychopharmacology. Psychother Psychosom, 77, 201-208.
- Reilly-Harrington, N.A., Deckersbach, T., Knauz, R., Wu, Y., Tran, T., Eidelman, P., Lund, H.G., Sachs, G., & Nierenberg, A.A. (2007). Cognitive behavioral therapy for rapid-cycling bipolar disorder: A pilot study. Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 13, 291-297.
- Ostacher, M.J., & Eidelman, P. (2006). Suicide in Bipolar Depression. In R.S. El-Mallakh & S.N. Ghaemi (Eds.), Bipolar Depression: A Comprehensive Guide. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
- Ostacher, M.J., Nierenberg, A.A., Perlis, R.H., Eidelman, P., Borrelli, D.J., Tran, T.B., Marzilli Ericson, G., Weiss, R.D., & Sachs, G. (2006). The relationship between smoking and suicidal behavior, comorbidity, and course of illness in bipolar disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 67, 1907-1911.
- Nierenberg, A. A., Eidelman, P., Wu, Y.P., & Joseph, M.F. (2005). Depression: An Update for the Clinician. Focus, 3, 3-12.
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Kate Kaplan is in her fifth year of graduate school at U.C. Berkeley. Kate received her B.A. in 2003 and M.A. in 2004 from Stanford University, where she worked with Dr. William C. Dement in the Sleep Disorders Research Center and Dr. Ian H. Gotlib in the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Laboratory. Her current work is a happy fusion of previous work in sleep and psychopathology. Kate's present and past research focuses on documenting the presentation, course and consequences of hypersomnia in psychiatric disorders, exploring sleep deprivation and recovery sleep in adolescents and adults, and the relationship between stressful life events, sleep, and illness course in unipolar and bipolar depression. Kate has also worked as a clinical intern in the U.C. Berkeley Psychology Clinic for three years and serves as a therapist and assessor on two RCTs treating sleep disturbances in individuals with insomnia and with bipolar disorder. When she's not working in the lab or getting some sleep, Kate enjoys traveling, surfing, and eating dim sum.
Representative Publications:
-Kaplan, K.A., Gruber, J., Eidelman, P., Talbot, L.S., & Harvey, A.G. (in press). Hypersomnia in interepisode bipolar disorder: Does it have prognostic significance? Journal of Affective Disorders.
-Talbot, L.S., McGlinchey, E.L., Kaplan, K.A., Dahl, R.E., & Harvey, A.G. (in press). Sleep deprivation in adolescents and adults: Changes in affect. Emotion.
-Soehner, A., Kaplan, K.A., Kanady, J., Harvey, A.G. (in press) Cognitive therapy for insomnia. Encyclopedia of Sleep.
-Kaplan, K., Talbot, L.S., & Harvey, A.G. (2009). Cognitive mechanisms in chronic insomnia: Processes and prospects. Sleep Medicine Clinics 4(4), 541-548.
-Kaplan, K.A. & Harvey, A.H. (2009). Hypersomnia across mood disorders: A review and synthesis. Sleep Medicine Reviews, 13(4), 275-285.
-Kaplan, K.A., Itoi, A., & Dement, W.C. (2007). Relationship between awareness of sleepiness and ability to predict sleep onset: Can drivers avoid falling asleep at the wheel? Sleep Medicine, 9(1), 71-79.
-Kamdar, B.B., Kaplan, K.A., Kezirian, E.W. & Dement, W.C. (2004). The impact of extended sleep on alertness, vigilance and mood. Sleep Medicine, 5(5), 441-8.
Awards and Honors:
-2011 Sleep Research Society Trainee Award
-2007-2010 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship recipient
-2009 Honorable mention, Student Research Award for Insomnia and Sleep Disorders Special Interest Group.
-2006, 2007 Regent's Intern fellowship from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Ellie is a fifth-year graduate student in the clinical science program at UC Berkeley. She received her B.A. from Temple University in 2004 with a double major in Psychology and Religion. Before coming to Berkeley, she worked as a research assistant at the Unit for Experimental Psychiatry, Sleep and Chronobiology lab at the University of Pennsylvania, under the supervision of Dr. David Dinges. That is where her love of sleep research began. Ellie's current interests center around sleep disturbance as a risk factor for psychiatric illness, with particular interest in: 1) genetic approaches to understanding the role of sleep and emotion in bipolar disorder and insomnia and 2) documenting emotional changes in healthy adolescents after sleep deprivation. Ellie serves as a therapist on the Young Adults and Teen Sleep Study (YATSS). She worked as an Intern in the UC Berkeley Psychology Clinic and as a Graduate Student Instructor for undergraduate courses including Developmental Clinical Psychology.
Awards and Honors:
- 2008-2011: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Pre-doctoral Fellowship, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Grant # F31 HD058411
- Title: Emotional and Behavioral Consequences of Sleep Deprivation in Adolescence
- 2008-2011: The Harvey Fellows Pre-doctoral fellowship, Mustard Seed Foundation
- 2008: National Science Foundation Graduate Diversity Fellowship Program Honorable Mention
- 2007, 2008: Ford Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mention
Representative Publications:
- McGlinchey, E.L., Talbot, L.S., Chang, K., Kaplan, K.A., Dahl, R.E., & Harvey, A.G. (submitted). The effect of sleep deprivation on vocal expression of emotion in adolescents and adults.
- Talbot, L.S., McGlinchey, E.L., Kaplan, K.A., Dahl, R.E., & Harvey, A.G. (in press). Sleep deprivation in adolescents and adults: Changes in affect. Emotion.
- McGlinchey, E.L., Harvey, A.G. (2009). Sleep Disorders. Contribution in The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology, 4 th Edition.
- Harvey, A.G., McGlinchey, E.L., Gruber, J. (2009). Insomnia and sleep dysregulation. Chapter in Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology.
- Dinges, D.F., Rider, R.L., Dorrian, J, McGlinchey, E.L., Rogers, N.L., Cizman, Z, Goldstein, S.K., Vogler, C, Venkataraman, S, Metaxas, D.N. (2005). Optical Computer Recognition of Facial Expressions associated with Stress Induced by Performance Demands. Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine. 76(6 Suppl):B172-82.
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Adriane Soehner, M.A.
Adriane is a fourth year in the clinical science program. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2008 with a B.S. in Biological Sciences and Psychology, and a concentration in Neuroscience. Prior to graduate school, Adriane worked with Dr. Timothy Monk as an undergraduate NIMH research fellow in the Human Chronobiology Research Program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Her current research seeks to: 1) achieve a better understanding of affective processing within the context of mood disorders and insomnia, 2) investigate biological (genetic, autonomic, EEG, immune) and behavioral (diet, physical activity) mechanisms underpinning poor health outcomes linked to both mood disorders and insomnia, and 3) utilize findings arising from the previous two goals to improve/develop psychological interventions for mood disorders and insomnia. Her dissertation research centers on quantitative analysis of sleep EEG in individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Adriane serves as a diagnostic assessor an RCT examining cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia comorbid with mood and anxiety disorders. She is also a trial therapist and diagnostic assessor for an RCT treating sleep disturbance in bipolar disorder. Adriane completed two years as an Intern in the UC Berkeley Psychology Clinic and has been a Graduate Student Instructor for the undergraduate courses Clinical Psychology and Psychology of Sleep.
Awards and Honors:
-2011: NRSA Institutional Training Grant in Neuroscience and Mental Health
-2010 & 2011: UC Berkeley Summer Research Fellowship
-National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention
-2009: Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid-of-Research
-2008: William V. Power Graduate Award
-2007-2008: NIMH Undergraduate Fellowship in Mental Health Research
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Jennifer Kanady
Jen is a second year graduate student in the Clinical Science program at UC Berkeley. Her current research focuses on: 1) the course of sleep disturbances across the lifespan of individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorder and 2) the relationship between sleep disturbances and cognitive functioning in individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Prior to starting her graduate studies, she worked as a research coordinator in the Lab of Sleep and Behavioral Neuroscience at UC San Diego and had a primary research focus on sleep-related memory consolidation and on the effect of sleep deprivation on cognitive and brain function. Jen has enjoyed combining her past research experience with her current research endeavors.
During her first year, Jen served as a graduate student instructor for the courses Psychology of Sleep and Clinical Psychology. She currently works as an assessor for several RCTs which examine the effectiveness of different therapeutic techniques for treating sleep disturbances in individuals with insomnia, bipolar disorder and adolescents with depression. She will be be starting her internship in the mood clinic during the fall of 2010. Jen's tenure in graduate school is generously supported with a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Outside of research, Jen enjoys training in muay thai and trail running.
Publications:
- Kanady, J.C., Drummond, S.P.A., & Mednick, S.C. (in press). Actigraphic Assessment of a Polysomnographic- Recorded Nap: A Validation Study. J Sleep Res.
- Cohen-Zion, M., Drummond, P., Padula, C., Winward, J., Kanady, J., Medina, K., & Tapert, S. (2009). Sleep architecture in adolescent marijuana and alcohol users during acute and extended abstinence. Addic Beh, 34, 976-979.
- Cai, D.J., Mednick, S.A., Harrison, E.M., Kanady, J.C., & Mednick, S.C. (2009). REM, not incubation, improves creativity by priming associative networks. Proc Natl Acad Sci, 106, 10130-10134.
- Mednick, S.C., Cai, D.J., Kanady, J.C., &Drummond, S.P. (2008). Comparing the effects of caffeine, naps, and placebo on verbal, motor and perceptual memory. Beh Brain Res, 193, 79-86.
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Jason Lee
Jason Lee is a first-year graduate student in Dr. Allison Harvey's lab. He obtained his B.A. in Psychology and Biological Basis of Behavior from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. As an undergraduate, Jason worked closely under Dr. David Dinges investigating the relative efficacies of various wake-promoting countermeasures on healthy adults undergoing trials of acute sleep deprivation. While serving as a Naval Officer in the years following, Jason's interests in sleep further developed as he witnessed and experienced the effects of sleep loss, shift work, disrupted sleep, and jet lag in a dynamic work enviornment. Now at Berkeley, Jason is interested in developing psychological interventions to improve sleep and quality of life among those suffereing from sleep disorders and co-morbid psychopathology. On his free time, Jason enjoys surfing, playing the guitar, and spending time with his Jack Russell Terrier.
Lauren Asarnow
Lauren Asarnow is a first year graduate student in Dr. Allison Harvey’s lab. She obtained her B.A. in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley in 2005. Lauren has worked on research projects with Dr. Susan Smalley at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, Dr. Robert Bilder at the UCLA Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics and Dr. Ian Gotlib at the Stanford Mood and Anxiety Disorders Lab. Under Dr. Gotlib’s mentorship Lauren developed an interest in sleep research and specifically how sleep and appetite dysregulation cut across different psychiatric disorders, demographic populations and age groups. Lauren is grateful and thrilled to be a part of the Harvey Lab. In her spare time she enjoys practicing yoga, dancing and cooking for her friends and family.
Lauren’s research is generously supported by the Lisa M. Capps Fellowship.
Lab Alumni
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June Gruber, Assistant Professor, Yale University
June Gruber received her PhD in Clinical Psychology at UC Berkeley in 2009. She is now an Assistant Professor of psychology at Yale University and director of the Yale Positive Emotion and Psychopathology (YPEP) Laboratory.
Faculty Profile: http://www.yale.edu/psychology/FacInfo/Gruber.html
Lab Webpage:
http://www.yalepeplab.com