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Overview

Anne Richards is affiliated with Birkbeck, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their work spans multiple areas within psychology and neuroscience, with a particular focus on sleep and related disorders as well as cognitive and experimental psychology.

Richards has contributed to research across several key topics, including:

  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts

Their main fields of study are:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Within these, Richards specializes in subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Behavioral Neuroscience

Prominent publication venues for their work include:

  • SLEEP
  • Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Journal of Sleep Research
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

Richards has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Thomas C. Neylan
  • Leslie Yack
  • Thomas J. Metzler
  • Sabra S. Inslicht
  • Steven H. Woodward

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Richards include:

  • "Acute cognitive effects of the hypocretin receptor antagonist almorexant relative to zolpidem and placebo: a randomized clinical trial" (2020) published in SLEEP
  • "Utility of Wrist-Wearable Data for Assessing Pain, Sleep, and Anxiety Outcomes After Traumatic Stress Exposure" (2023) published in JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Validation of sleep measurement in a multisensor consumer grade wearable device in healthy young adults" (2020) published in Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
  • "The relationship of fear-potentiated startle and polysomnography-measured sleep in trauma-exposed men and women with and without PTSD: testing REM sleep effects and exploring the roles of an integrative measure of sleep, PTSD symptoms, and biological sex" (2021) published in SLEEP
  • "Ventromedial and insular cortical volume moderates the relationship between BDNF Val66Met and threat sensitivity" (2021) published in Journal of Psychiatric Research

Best Publications

  • The influence of affect on higher level cognition: A review of research on interpretation, judgement, decision making and reasoning

    Isabelle Blanchette;Anne Richards

  • Bias in interpretation of ambiguous sentences related to threat in anxiety.

    Michael W. Eysenck;Karin Mogg;Jon May;Anne Richards

  • Interpretation of Homophones Related to Threat in Anxiety States

    Andrew Mathews;Anne Richards;Michael Eysenck

  • Modulation of thermal pain-related brain activity with virtual reality: evidence from fMRI.

    Hunter G. Hoffman;Todd L. Richards;Barbara Coda;Aric R. Bills

  • Instructional treatment associated with changes in brain activation in children with dyslexia

    Elizabeth H. Aylward;T. L. Richards;V. W. Berninger;W. E. Nagy

  • Effects of mood manipulation and anxiety on performance of an emotional Stroop task.

    Anne Richards;Christopher C. French;Wendy Johnson;Jennifer Naparstek

  • Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia in posttraumatic stress disorder: a randomized controlled trial.

    Lisa S Talbot;Shira Maguen;Thomas J Metzler;Martha Schmitz

  • An anxiety-related bias in semantic activation when processing threat/neutral homographs.

    Anne Richards;Christopher C. French

  • Anxiety-related Bias in the Classification of Emotionally Ambiguous Facial Expressions

    Anne Richards;Christopher C. French;Andrew J. Calder;Ben Webb

  • Effects of anxiety on task switching: evidence from the mixed antisaccade task.

    Tahereh L. Ansari;Nazanin Derakshan;Anne Richards

  • Anatomical signatures of dyslexia in children: unique information from manual and voxel based morphometry brain measures.

    Mark A. Eckert;Christiana M. Leonard;Marko Wilke;Mathew Eckert

  • Cognitive processing and trait anxiety in typically developing children: evidence for an interpretation bias.

    Julie Hadwin;Susie Frost;Christopher C. French;Anne Richards

  • Sleep disturbance in PTSD and other anxiety-related disorders: an updated review of clinical features, physiological characteristics, and psychological and neurobiological mechanisms.

    Anne Richards;Jennifer C. Kanady;Thomas C. Neylan

  • Test anxiety, susceptibility to distraction and examination performance

    Edmund Keogh;Frank W. Bond;Christopher C. French;Anne Richards

  • The Illusion of Presence in Immersive Virtual Reality during an fMRI Brain Scan

    Hunter G. Hoffman;Todd L. Richards;Barbara Coda;Anne Richards

  • Colour-identification of differentially valenced words in anxiety

    Anne Richards;Bernice Millwood

  • Reasoning About Emotional and Neutral Materials Is Logic Affected by Emotion

    Isabelle Blanchette;Anne Richards

  • Converging evidence for triple word form theory in children with dyslexia.

    Todd L. Richards;Elizabeth H. Aylward;Katherine M. Field;Amie C. Grimme

  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Anxiety and Depression Symptoms, and Psychosocial Treatment Needs in Colombians Internally Displaced by Armed Conflict: A Mixed-Method Evaluation

    Anne Richards;Jorge Ospina-Duque;Mauricio Barrera-Valencia;Juan Escobar-Rincón

  • fMRI auditory language differences between dyslexic and able reading children.

    David P. Corina;Todd L. Richards;CA Sandra Serafini;Anne L. Richards

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas C. Neylan
Thomas C. Neylan University of California, San Francisco
Christopher C. French
Christopher C. French Goldsmiths University of London
Aoife O'Donovan
Aoife O'Donovan University of California, San Francisco
Nazanin Derakshan
Nazanin Derakshan Birkbeck, University of London
Shira Maguen
Shira Maguen University of California, San Francisco
Julie A. Hadwin
Julie A. Hadwin University of Southampton
Amanda Holmes
Amanda Holmes University of Roehampton
Michael W. Eysenck
Michael W. Eysenck Royal Holloway University of London
Peter R. Harris
Peter R. Harris University of Sussex
Edmund Keogh
Edmund Keogh University of Bath

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