A5051148325- Sleep and related disorders
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Circadian rhythm and melatonin
- Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Health disparities and outcomes
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
- Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
Harvard University
2019-2025
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
2019-2024
Hadassah Medical Center
2021-2024
Boston College
2019-2023
University of Michigan
2023
Brown University
2023
Canadian Sleep & Circadian Network
2022
Chestnut Hill College
2021
University of Notre Dame
2014-2019
Notre Dame of Dadiangas University
2018
Advanced age is often associated with increased emotional well-being, older adults reporting more positive and less negative affect than younger adults. Here, we test whether this pattern held during the initial outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic that disproportionately put at risk. We additionally examine potential moderating effects daily activity social connectedness, which have been shown to benefit mental health across life span. regularly assessed a large sample ages 18-89 using online...
Objectives: Despite initial concerns about older adult's emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic, reports from first months of pandemic suggested that adults were faring better than younger adults, reporting lower stress, negative affect, depression, and anxiety. In this study, we examined whether pattern would persist as progressed.Method: A convenience sample 1,171 community-dwelling in United States, ages 18-90, filled out surveys on various metrics starting March 2020 at time...
Empirical evidence demonstrates mental health disparities between sexual and gender minority individuals (SGM) compared with cisgender heterosexual individuals. SGM report elevated rates of emotional distress, symptoms related to mood anxiety disorders, self-harm, suicidal ideation behavior. Social support is inversely psychiatric symptoms, regardless status. The COVID-19 pandemic—with its associated limited social interactions—represents an unprecedented period acute distress potential...
Abstract Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be characterized as a of fear learning and memory, in which there is failure to retain memory for the extinction conditioned fear. Sleep has been implicated successful retention. The coupling sleep spindles slow oscillations (SOs) during non-rapid eye movement shown broadly underpin sleep’s beneficial effect on consolidation. However, role this oscillatory retention memories unknown. In large sample 124 trauma-exposed individuals, we...
Abstract While there was a necessary initial focus on physical health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is becoming increasingly clear that many have experienced significant social and mental repercussions as well. It important to understand effects pandemic well-being, both world continues recover from lasting impact in eventual case future pandemics. On March 20, 2020, we launched an online daily survey study tracking participants’ sleep well-being. Repeated reports metrics were...
Previous literature suggests age-related increases in prosociality. Does such an age-prosociality relationship occur during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, or might pandemic-as a stressor that may differently influence young and older adults-create boundary condition on relationship? If so, can empathy, well-known prosocial disposition, explain This study investigated these questions whether target (distant others compared to close others) of behaviors differs by...
The field of clinical-psychological science exists in a broader psychology that is increasingly acknowledged as embedded racist and white-supremacist history. In the production science, clinical model predominates one most influential scientific voices emphasizes value rigorous theory, training, praxis. We highlight some ways which has neglected anti-racism. By examining idiosyncratic development we outline how its failure to contend with systemic racism propagates subdiscipline. Our hope by...
Abstract Emotional memory bias is a common characteristic of internalizing symptomatology and enhanced during sleep. The current study employs bifactor S-1 modeling to disentangle depression-specific anhedonia, anxiety-specific anxious arousal, the factor, general distress, test whether these symptoms interact with sleep influence for emotional neutral information. Healthy adults ( N = 281) encoded scenes featuring either negative objects (e.g., vicious looking snake) or chipmunk) placed on...
Social restrictions necessary to reduce the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) profoundly changed how we socialised, worked and, for students, attended classes. Interestingly, significant sleep pattern shifts occurred in context pandemic-related social restrictions. Whether age and chronotype influenced these changes remains poorly understood. In this pre-registered (https://osf.io/4a3fx), web-based study, United States residents reported, one-time assessments, demographic...
Sleep disturbances are common in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), although which sleep microarchitectural characteristics reliably classify those with and without PTSD remains equivocal. Here, we investigated differences (i.e., spectral power, spindle activity) trauma-exposed individuals that met ( n = 45) or did not meet 52) criteria for how these relate to related psychopathological symptoms. Using ecologically-relevant home polysomnography recordings, show exhibit decreased beta...
Successful prospective memory is necessarily driven by an expectation that encoded information will be relevant in the future, leading to its preferential placement storage. Like expectation, emotional salience another type of cue benefits human formation. Although separate lines research suggest both and explicitly expected important future benefit consolidation, it unknown how affects processing whether sleep, which known maximize plays a critical role. The purpose this study was...
Stress influences how we remember emotional events and these shape future behaviors. However, the impact of stress on memory specificity for has yet to be examined. To this end, present study utilized a mnemonic discrimination task that taxes hippocampal pattern separation, process distinguishing between overlapping experiences, thereby allowing us better understand mechanisms by which affects gist versus detail events. Participants encoded scenes composed negative or neutral objects placed...
Prospective memory (PM) – or for tasks to be completed in the future is essential daily functioning. Although depression and anxiety have been shown impair PM performance, few studies explored relative contributions of different symptom domains. Here, we examined relation between anxiety, depression, negative mood, performance using tripartite model. The model attributes substantial overlap general distress/negative affect. Twenty-seven non-diagnosed undergraduate participants first...
Numerous studies have investigated how stress impacts veridical memory, but influences false memory formation remains poorly understood. In order to target consolidation specifically, a psychosocial (TSST) or control manipulation was administered following encoding of 15 neutral, semantically related word lists (DRM task) and tested 24 h later. Stress decreased recognition studied words, while increasing lure words. Moreover, subjects remembered true words equivalently, stressed more than...
Rationale: A growing body of evidence suggests that sleep is critical for the adaptive processing and consolidation emotional information into long-term memory. Previous research has indicated components scenes particularly benefit from in healthy groups yet sleep-dependent memory processes remain unexplored clinical cohorts, including those with obstructive apnea (OSA). This line important as it will add to understanding how disrupted OSA contributes both impaired cognition emotion...
The field of clinical psychological science exists within a broader psychology, which is increasingly acknowledged as embedded in racist and white supremacist history. In the production science, Clinical Science Model predominates one most influential scientific voices that emphasizes value rigorous theory, training, praxis. We highlight some ways has neglected antiracism. By examining idiosyncratic development we outline how its failure to contend with systemic racism propagates...
The Personality Inventory for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Brief Form (PID-5-BF) was developed with an assumption invariance across sexual gender minority (SGM) individuals. This has yet to be tested empirically. Using multigroup confirmatory factor analysis, we examined measurement in the PID-5-BF SGM status clinical (N = 1,174; n 254 SGM) nonclinical 1,456; 151 samples. Measurement supported structure, item thresholds, loadings, but not at intercept...