Research Interests
My current research interests include the prevalence, consequences,
and the psychological assessment and treatment of child and adolescent
sleep disorders.
My current research projects include:
Infants
- What is the best technique to use to treat babies' sleep?
- Does controlled crying result in negative outcomes for babies later
in life?
Children
- Can parents sleep education be used to treat toddlers' sleep problems?
- What is the best technique to use to treat school-aged children's
sleep disorders?
- Do anxious children report more severe sleep problems?
- Can CBT for anxious children improve their sleep?
Adolescents
- How prevalent are adolescent sleep problems in Australia?
- What intelligence abilities are affected by sleep loss in adolescents?
- What pre-sleep activities hinder (or help) adolescents' sleep?
- What is the best technique to treat adolescent sleep disorders?
- Can adolescent sleep problems be treated in the school setting?
- Why do adolescents nap?
Adults
- How do fatigue and sleepiness vary across sleep, medical, and mental
disorders?
Sleep Clinic
I am the Director of the Child
and Adolescent Sleep Clinic. Based at Flinders University, the clinic
offers assessments and individualised treatments of child and adolescent
sleep problems - particularly insomnia and circadian rhythm disorders.
Psychology Clinic
I am also the Director of the Flinders
University Psychology Clinic. The Clinic provides intellectual, acievement,
and emotional/behavioural assessments of school-age children, as well
as treatments for anxiety and behaviour problems. Services are provided
by postgraduate clinical psychology trainees (5th and 6th year of training)
and supervised by our senior clinical psychologist, Susan
McNichol. |
Selected Publications
Gradisar, M., Terrill, G., Johnston, A., & Douglas, P. (2008). Adolescent
sleep and working memory performance. Sleep
and Biological Rhythms, 6, 146-154. Request
a copy.
Gradisar, M., Wright, H., Robinson, J., Paine, S., & Gamble, A. (2008).
Adolescent napping behaviour: Comparisons of school week verses weekend
sleep patterns. Sleep
and Biological Rhythms,
6, 183-186. Request
a copy.
Robinson, J., Alexander, D., & Gradisar, M. (2008). Preparing for
Year 12 examinations: Predictors of psychological distress and sleep.
Australian
Journal of Psychology, 60.
Gallasch, J., & Gradisar, M. (2007). The relationships between sleep
knowledge, sleep practice, and sleep quality.
Sleep and Biological Rhythms, 5, 63-73. Request
a copy.
Gradisar, M., Lack, L., Richards, H., Harris, J., Gallasch, J., Boundy,
M., & Johnston, A. (2007). The Flinders Fatigue Scale: Preliminary
psychometric properties and clinical sensitivity of a new scale for measuring
daytime fatigue associated with insomnia. Journal
of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 3, 722-728. Request
a copy.
Harris, J., Lack, L. C., Wright, H. R., Gradisar, M., & Brooks, A. (2007).
Intensive sleep retrainging treatment for chronic primary insomnia: A
preliminary investigation. Journal
of Sleep Research, 16, 1-9. Request
a copy.
Gradisar, M., Lack, L., Wright, H., Harris, J., & Brooks, A. (2006).
Do chronic primary insomniacs have impaired heat loss when attempting
sleep? American Journal of
Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 290,
R1115-R1121.Request
a copy.
Gradisar, M., & Lack, L. (2004). Relationships between the circadian
rhythms of finger temperature, core temperature, sleep latency, and subjective
sleepiness. Journal of Biological
Rhythms, 19, 157-163. Request
a copy.
Lack, L., & Gradisar, M. (2002). Acute fingertip temperature changes
preceding sleep onsets over a 45-hour period. Journal
of Sleep Research, 11(4), 275-282. Request
a copy.
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Selected Abstracts
Gradisar, M. (2007). An insomnia severity index for adolescents.
Sleep and Biological Rhythms, 5, A37.
Moseley, L., & Gradisar, M. (2007). A school-based intervention for
adolescent sleep problems. Sleep
and Biological Rhythms, 5, A34.
Paine, S., Gradisar, M., Wright, H., Slater, A., & Hudson, J. (2007).
Sleep and anxiety parameters of children diagnosed with Behavioural Insomnia
of Childhood at a university-based insomnia clinic. Sleep
and Biological Rhythms, 5, A72.
Dawson, S., Gradisar, M., & Lack, L. (2007). The effect of brief
and long daytime naps on subsequent nocturnal sleep and daytime functioning.
Sleep
and Biological Rhythms, 5, A96.
Gradisar, M., Robinson, J., Stone, S., & Wright, H. (2006, June).
Adolescents' internet usage and its effect on sleep and daytime functioning.
19th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of
Behavioural Development, Melbourne, Australia. |
