April Minsky

Biographic Data

ID1409194
NAMEApril Minsky
GIVEN NAMESApril
FAMILY NAMEMinsky
SIGNATUREMINSKY A
AFFILIATIONSDepartment of Neurology and VA New England Healthcare System
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS3
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR3
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX1

  • Cognitive Phenomenology of Religious Experience in Religious Narratives, Dreams, and Nightmares

    Open AccessPatrick Mcnamara, April Minsky et al.ARTICLEArchive for the Psychology of…2015

    McNamara (2009) hypothesized that a 4-step sequential decentering process (diminished agency, liminality, effort, and success) characterized the phenomenology of religious and spiritual experiences (RSES) and was rooted in dreams and nightmares. We content analyzed 50 RSES, 50 dreams, and 50 nightmares for presence and ordering of elements of the decentering process. Thirty-six percent of RSES, 48% of dreams, and 44% of nightmares had all four de…

  • Aggression in nightmares and unpleasant dreams and in people reporting recurrent nightmares

    Patrick Mcnamara, April Minsky et al.ARTICLEDreaming2015Cited by: 6References: 2

  • REM sleep, dreams, and attachment themes across a single night of sleep

    Patrick Mcnamara, Rafael Ayala et al.ARTICLEDreaming2014References: 4

    REM has been linked with consolidation of emotional memories and therefore may influence attachment processes. We tested the hypothesis that content of EEG verified REM sleep dreams would change over the course of a single night as a function of attachment orientation, whereas content of NREM dreams would not. After a habituation night in the sleep lab, a convenience sample of 11 healthy volunteers, whose attachment orientations were measured, we…