Anne Germain
Biographic Data
| ID | 3602690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Germain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Germain |
| SIGNATURE | GERMAIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6672-4800 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Age Trends in Actigraphy and Self-Report Sleep Across the Life Span: Findings From the Pittsburgh Lifespan Sleep Databank
OBJECTIVE: Sleep changes over the human life span, and it does so across multiple dimensions. We used individual-level cross-sectional data to characterize age trends and sex differences in actigraphy and self-report sleep dimensions across the healthy human life span. METHODS: The Pittsburgh Lifespan Sleep Databank consists of harmonized participant-level data from sleep-related studies conducted at the University of Pittsburgh (2003-2019). We i…
Identification of Veterans With PTSD Based on EEG Features Collected During Sleep
Background: Previously, we identified sleep-electroencephalography (EEG) spectral power and synchrony features that differed significantly at a population-average level between subjects with and without posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Here, we aimed to examine the extent to which a combination of such features could objectively identify individual subjects with PTSD. Methods: We analyzed EEG data recorded from 78 combat-exposed Veteran men …
We Snooze, Clients Lose: Time for Social Workers to Join Sleep Promotion Efforts
Sleep is a biological necessity—no different from nutrition or physical exercise—that can be readily modified to support health and well-being. Sleep is considered highly important to clients and is a behavior people are receptive to exploring and modifying (Grandner & Malhotra, 2015). Sleep snuggly fits within the holistic approach taken by social workers, though to date, efforts have been led by doctoral-level practitioners with specialty train…
Effects of sleep on memory for conditioned fear and fear extinction
Learning and memory for extinction of conditioned fear is a basic mammalian mechanism for regulating negative emotion. Sleep promotes both the consolidation of memory and the regulation of emotion. Sleep can influence consolidation and modification of memories associated with both fear and its extinction. After brief overviews of the behavior and neural circuitry associated with fear conditioning, extinction learning, and extinction memory in the…
Is group imagery rehearsal for posttrauma nightmares as good at reducing PTSD symptoms as group treatment for PTSD
Development of Short Forms From the PROMISTM Sleep Disturbance and Sleep-Related Impairment Item Banks
This article reports on the development of short forms from the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMISTM) Sleep Disturbance (SD) and Sleep-Related Impairment (SRI) item banks. Results from post-hoc computerized adaptive testing (CAT) simulations, item discrimination parameters, item means, and clinical judgments were used to select the best-performing 8 items for SD and SRI. The final 8-item short forms provided less tes…
Dream Content in Complicated Grief: A Window into Loss-Related Cognitive Schemas
Bereavement and its accompanying psychological response (grief) constitute potent experiences that necessitate the reorganization of cognitive-affective representations of lost significant attachment figures during both wakefulness and dreaming. The goals of this preliminary study were to explore whether the dream content of 77 adults with complicated grief (CG) differed from that of a normative sample and whether CG patients who dream of the dec…
Development and Validation of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for Sleep Disturbance and Sleep-Related Impairments
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To develop an archive of self-report questions assessing sleep disturbance and sleep-related impairments (SRI), to develop item banks from this archive, and to validate and calibrate the item banks using classic validation techniques and item response theory analyses in a sample of clinical and community participants. DESIGN: Cross-sectional self-report study. SETTING: Academic medical center and participant homes. PARTICIPANTS:…
Increased Mastery Elements Associated With Imagery Rehearsal Treatment for Nightmares in Sexual Assault Survivors With PTSD
Exposure, abreaction, and mastery have been proposed as the therapeutic processes of nightmare (NM) reduction. Imagery rehearsal therapy (IRT) effectively reduces NMs but involves minimal exposure and abreaction. The authors investigated the use of mastery in the scripting of new dreams (NDs) elaborated during IRT. NM an dN D reports were collected from 44 female sexual assault survivors with chronic NMs during their initial application of IRT. M…
Psychophysiological Reactivity and Coping Styles Influence the Effects of Acute Stress Exposure on Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
OBJECTIVE: The goal of the present study was to investigate the roles of situational (ie, psychophysiological reactivity to acute stress) and dispositional variables (ie, neuroticism, coping styles) in shaping the effects of acute stress exposure on REM sleep. METHODS: Sixty-three healthy young adults slept in the laboratory after being randomized into CTL or EXP. Measures of psychophysiological reactivity (state anxiety, stress level, and mean a…
Publication patterns in dream research: Trends in the medical and psychological literatures
The annual rate of journal publications is a pertinent index of a scientific field's prosperity. In the present study, annual publication rates were calculated for the field of dream research using both medical (Index Medicus, MEDLINE) and psychological (PsychINFO) reference databases. A composite profile from the medical database spanning 111 years revealed very similar changes in publishing levels following the release of Freud's (1958/1900) Th…
Increased Mastery Elements Associated With Imagery Rehearsal Treatment for Nightmares in Sexual Assault Survivors With PTSD
Exposure, abreaction, and mastery have been proposed as the therapeutic processes of nightmare (NM) reduction. Imagery rehearsal therapy (IRT) effectively reduces NMs but involves minimal exposure and abreaction. The authors investigated the use of mastery in the scripting of new dreams (NDs) elaborated during IRT. NM an dN D reports were collected from 44 female sexual assault survivors with chronic NMs during their initial application of IRT. M…
Dream Content in Complicated Grief: A Window into Loss-Related Cognitive Schemas
Bereavement and its accompanying psychological response (grief) constitute potent experiences that necessitate the reorganization of cognitive-affective representations of lost significant attachment figures during both wakefulness and dreaming. The goals of this preliminary study were to explore whether the dream content of 77 adults with complicated grief (CG) differed from that of a normative sample and whether CG patients who dream of the dec…
We Snooze, Clients Lose: Time for Social Workers to Join Sleep Promotion Efforts
Sleep is a biological necessity—no different from nutrition or physical exercise—that can be readily modified to support health and well-being. Sleep is considered highly important to clients and is a behavior people are receptive to exploring and modifying (Grandner & Malhotra, 2015). Sleep snuggly fits within the holistic approach taken by social workers, though to date, efforts have been led by doctoral-level practitioners with specialty train…
Publication patterns in dream research: Trends in the medical and psychological literatures
The annual rate of journal publications is a pertinent index of a scientific field's prosperity. In the present study, annual publication rates were calculated for the field of dream research using both medical (Index Medicus, MEDLINE) and psychological (PsychINFO) reference databases. A composite profile from the medical database spanning 111 years revealed very similar changes in publishing levels following the release of Freud's (1958/1900) Th…
Psychophysiological Reactivity and Coping Styles Influence the Effects of Acute Stress Exposure on Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
OBJECTIVE: The goal of the present study was to investigate the roles of situational (ie, psychophysiological reactivity to acute stress) and dispositional variables (ie, neuroticism, coping styles) in shaping the effects of acute stress exposure on REM sleep. METHODS: Sixty-three healthy young adults slept in the laboratory after being randomized into CTL or EXP. Measures of psychophysiological reactivity (state anxiety, stress level, and mean a…
Increased Mastery Elements Associated With Imagery Rehearsal Treatment for Nightmares in Sexual Assault Survivors With PTSD
Exposure, abreaction, and mastery have been proposed as the therapeutic processes of nightmare (NM) reduction. Imagery rehearsal therapy (IRT) effectively reduces NMs but involves minimal exposure and abreaction. The authors investigated the use of mastery in the scripting of new dreams (NDs) elaborated during IRT. NM an dN D reports were collected from 44 female sexual assault survivors with chronic NMs during their initial application of IRT. M…
Development and Validation of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for Sleep Disturbance and Sleep-Related Impairments
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To develop an archive of self-report questions assessing sleep disturbance and sleep-related impairments (SRI), to develop item banks from this archive, and to validate and calibrate the item banks using classic validation techniques and item response theory analyses in a sample of clinical and community participants. DESIGN: Cross-sectional self-report study. SETTING: Academic medical center and participant homes. PARTICIPANTS:…
Development of Short Forms From the PROMISTM Sleep Disturbance and Sleep-Related Impairment Item Banks
This article reports on the development of short forms from the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMISTM) Sleep Disturbance (SD) and Sleep-Related Impairment (SRI) item banks. Results from post-hoc computerized adaptive testing (CAT) simulations, item discrimination parameters, item means, and clinical judgments were used to select the best-performing 8 items for SD and SRI. The final 8-item short forms provided less tes…
Dream Content in Complicated Grief: A Window into Loss-Related Cognitive Schemas
Bereavement and its accompanying psychological response (grief) constitute potent experiences that necessitate the reorganization of cognitive-affective representations of lost significant attachment figures during both wakefulness and dreaming. The goals of this preliminary study were to explore whether the dream content of 77 adults with complicated grief (CG) differed from that of a normative sample and whether CG patients who dream of the dec…
Is group imagery rehearsal for posttrauma nightmares as good at reducing PTSD symptoms as group treatment for PTSD
Effects of sleep on memory for conditioned fear and fear extinction
Learning and memory for extinction of conditioned fear is a basic mammalian mechanism for regulating negative emotion. Sleep promotes both the consolidation of memory and the regulation of emotion. Sleep can influence consolidation and modification of memories associated with both fear and its extinction. After brief overviews of the behavior and neural circuitry associated with fear conditioning, extinction learning, and extinction memory in the…
We Snooze, Clients Lose: Time for Social Workers to Join Sleep Promotion Efforts
Sleep is a biological necessity—no different from nutrition or physical exercise—that can be readily modified to support health and well-being. Sleep is considered highly important to clients and is a behavior people are receptive to exploring and modifying (Grandner & Malhotra, 2015). Sleep snuggly fits within the holistic approach taken by social workers, though to date, efforts have been led by doctoral-level practitioners with specialty train…
Identification of Veterans With PTSD Based on EEG Features Collected During Sleep
Background: Previously, we identified sleep-electroencephalography (EEG) spectral power and synchrony features that differed significantly at a population-average level between subjects with and without posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Here, we aimed to examine the extent to which a combination of such features could objectively identify individual subjects with PTSD. Methods: We analyzed EEG data recorded from 78 combat-exposed Veteran men …
Age Trends in Actigraphy and Self-Report Sleep Across the Life Span: Findings From the Pittsburgh Lifespan Sleep Databank
OBJECTIVE: Sleep changes over the human life span, and it does so across multiple dimensions. We used individual-level cross-sectional data to characterize age trends and sex differences in actigraphy and self-report sleep dimensions across the healthy human life span. METHODS: The Pittsburgh Lifespan Sleep Databank consists of harmonized participant-level data from sleep-related studies conducted at the University of Pittsburgh (2003-2019). We i…
Psychology (10 works) · Sleep and related disorders (9 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Sleep and Wakefulness Research (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Insomnia (4 works) · Psychotherapist (4 works)