FACULTY and AFFLIATED SCIENTISTS
Arthur Spielman
Sleep disorders
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650-5396/5397
One of the world’s recognized experts on insomnia, Professor Spielman is a licensed clinical psychologist. Professor Spielman currently teaches the majority of the courses in the proposed track and is the principal research mentor and clinical supervisor to most of the sleep students. In addition, he is the founder and director of the Sleep Disorders Center at City. His current research interests include near infrared spectroscopy as an imaging technique, melatonin for sleep maintenance insomnia and body temperature and sleep.
Professor Spielman is a member of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Presidential Committee, American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
Recent publications include:
Ebben, MA. and Spielman, AJ.
The Effects of Distal Limb Warming on Sleep Latency. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. In press.
Conroy, DC., Spielman, AJ., and Scott, RQ.
Daily rhythm of cerebral blood flow velocity.
Journal of Circadian Rhythms, March, 2005.
Click here to read paperYang,,CM., Lin, FW, and Spielman, AJ. Standard instructions for the evaluation of subjective sleepiness: A validation study. In press, Sleep.
Spielman, A.J., Conroy, D. and Glovinsky, P.B. Evaluation of Insomnia, In: Behavioral Sleep Medicine, M. Perlis and K. Lichstein (Eds). (2003) John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Spielman, A.J., Yang, C.M. and Glovinsky (2003). Sleep and Chronobiology. In The Behavioral Sciences and Health Care. O.J.Z. Sahler and J.E. Carr editors, Hogrefe and Huber, Cambridge, MA, 29-34.
Yang, CM., Spielman, AJ., D’Ambrosio, P., Serizawa, S., Nunes, J., and Birnbaum, J. (2001) A Single Dose of Melatonin Prevents the Phase Delay Associated with a Delayed Weekend Sleep Pattern. Sleep, 24(3)272-281.
Yang, CM and Spielman AJ. (2001). The effect of a delayed weekend sleep pattern on sleep and morning functioning. Psychology & Health, 16, 715-725.
Spielman, AJ., Zhang, G., Yang, CM., D’Ambrosio, P., Serizawa, S., Nagato, M., von Gizycki, H., and Alfano, RR. (2000). Intracerebral hemodynamics probed by near infrared spectroscopy in the transition between wakefulness and sleep. Brain Research, 866, 313-325.
Spielman, A. J., Yang, C.M., and Glovinsky, P.B. (2000). Assessment techniques for insomnia. Chapter in : Principles and Practices of Sleep Medicine, Third Edition, M. Kryger, T. Roth and W. Dement (eds). W. B. Saunders Co. Toronto, Canada.
Morin, C.M., Hauri, P.J., Espie, C., Spielman, A., Buysse, D.J., and Bootzin, R. (1999). Nonpharmacologic Treatment of Chronic Insomnia. Sleep, 22(8)1134-1156.
Yang, CM., and Spielman, AJ. (1999). Behavioural Aspects of the Treatment of Insomnia, Disease Management and Health Outcomes, Apr5(4) 210-224.