Journal of Sleep Disorders & Therapy
Open Access
ISSN: 2167-0277
ISSN: 2167-0277
Anne Germain
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh USA.
Dr. Germain received a Bachelor of Science in psychology from McGill University in 1996, and completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Université de Montréal in 2001. She then pursued post-doctoral training in clinical sleep research and sleep neuroimaging at the University of Pittsburgh, and joined the Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry in 2005. Dr. Germain’s research program has two main areas of interests, focuses on the neural underpinnings and effects of acute sleep loss and chronic sleep disturbances, a second area of interest focuses on the development, adaptation, testing, and implementation of treatments targeting trauma-related sleep disturbances.
His reaserch interest on The functions of sleep have been an ongoing question for clinicians and researchers interested in the sleeping brain. Historically, sleep was considered as a general restorative process where the brain and the body were mostly inactive. This concept had to be revised first when “paradoxical sleep