CDI for Psychiatry
Anne Germain

Anne Germain, Ph.D.

Dr. Germain's research interests focus on the pathophysiology of sleep disturbance in postraumatic stress disorder and other stress-related mental health disorders, on the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral and pharamcological treatments of stress-related sleep disturbances, and on the psychophysiological mechanisms that underlie sleep treatment response.

Positions

  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA

 

Education

  • Ph.D., 2001, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Clinical Psychology

 

Relevant Publications

  • Nofzinger EA, Buysse DJ, Germain A, Price JC, Miewald JM, Kupfer DJ: Insomnia: Functional neuroimaging evidence for hyperarousal. Am J Psychiatry 161:2126-2128, 2004.
  • Nofzinger EA, Buysse DJ, Germain A, Price JC, Meltzer CC, Miewald JM, Kupfer DJ: Alterations in regional cerebral glucose metabolism across waking and non-rapid eye movement sleep in depression. Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:387-396, 2005.
  • Germain A, Caroff K, Buysse DJ, Shear MK: Sleep quality in traumatic grief. J Trauma Stress 18:343-346, 2005.
  • Germain A, Shear MK, Monk TH, Houck PR, Reynolds CF, Frank E, Buysse DJ: Treating complicated grief: Effects on sleep quality. Behav Sleep Med, in press.
  • Germain A, Hall M, Shear MK, Nofzinger EA, Buysse DJ: Ecological study of sleep disruption in PTSD: A pilot study. Ann N Y Acad Sci, in press.