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Mary A. Carskadon

Mary A. Carskadon

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Medicine

D-Index
100
Citations
57636
World Ranking
8120
National Ranking
4210

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Mary A. Carskadon is affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with significant contributions across experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, endocrine and autonomic systems, as well as psychiatry and mental health.

Their most prominent topics of study include sleep and related disorders, sleep and wakefulness research, circadian rhythm and melatonin, sleep and work-related fatigue, obesity, physical activity, and diet, COVID-19 and mental health, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • David Barker
  • Jared Saletin
  • Caroline Gredvig-Ardito
  • Judith Owens
  • Patricia Wong

The scientist has published extensively in several key journals, with the top venues being:

  • SLEEP
  • SLEEP Advances
  • Sleep Health
  • Journal of Biological Rhythms
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Notable recent papers by Mary A. Carskadon include:

  • "Classifying Pubertal Development Using Child and Parent Report: Comparing the Pubertal Development Scales to Tanner Staging," 2020, Journal of Adolescent Health
  • "Keeping an eye on circadian time in clinical research and medicine," 2022, Clinical and Translational Medicine
  • "Pediatric sleep: current knowledge, gaps, and opportunities for the future," 2023, SLEEP
  • "Adolescent sleep health and school start times: Setting the research agenda for California and beyond. A research summit summary," 2022, Sleep Health
  • "COVID-19 instructional approaches (in-person, online, hybrid), school start times, and sleep in over 5,000 U.S. adolescents," 2021, SLEEP

Mary A. Carskadon received the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) award in 2007.

Best Publications

  • EEG arousals: Scoring rules and examples. A preliminary report from the Sleep Disorders Atlas Task Force of the American Sleep Disorder Association

    M. Bonnet;David W. Carley;M. Carskadon;P. Easton

  • Meta-Analysis of Quantitative Sleep Parameters From Childhood to Old Age in Healthy Individuals: Developing Normative Sleep Values Across the Human Lifespan

    Maurice M. Ohayon;Mary A. Carskadon;Christian Guilleminault;Michael V. Vitiello

  • Sleep Schedules and Daytime Functioning in Adolescents

    Amy R. Wolfson;Mary A. Carskadon

  • Guidelines for the multiple sleep latency Test (MSLT) : a standard measure of sleepiness

    M A Carskadon;W C Dement;M M Mitler;T Roth

  • Activity-based sleep-wake identification: an empirical test of methodological issues.

    Sadeh A;Sharkey Km;Carskadon Ma

  • Chapter 2 – Normal Human Sleep: An Overview

    Mary A. Carskadon;William C. Dement

  • Sleep, circadian rhythms, and delayed phase in adolescence

    Stephanie J. Crowley;Stephanie J. Crowley;Christine Acebo;Christine Acebo;Mary A. Carskadon;Mary A. Carskadon

  • Catastrophes, sleep, and public policy: consensus report

    M M Mitler;M A Carskadon;C A Czeisler;W C Dement

  • Sleep in Adolescents: The Perfect Storm

    Mary A. Carskadon

  • Adolescent Sleep Patterns, Circadian Timing, and Sleepiness at a Transition to Early School Days

    Mary A. Carskadon;Amy R. Wolfson;Christine Acebo;Orna Tzischinsky

  • A self-administered rating scale for pubertal development

    Mary A. Carskadon;Christine Acebo

  • Understanding adolescent's sleep patterns and school performance: a critical appraisal

    Amy R Wolfson;Mary A Carskadon

  • Estimating sleep patterns with activity monitoring in children and adolescents: how many nights are necessary for reliable measures?

    Christine Acebo;Avi Sadeh;Ronald Seifer;Orna Tzischinsky

  • Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders: Part I, Basic Principles, Shift Work and Jet Lag Disorders An American Academy of Sleep Medicine Review

    Robert L. Sack;Dennis Auckley;R. Robert Auger;Mary A. Carskadon

  • Evidence for the validity of a Sleep Habits survey for adolescents

    Amy R. Wolfson;Mary A. Carskadon;Christine Acebo;Ronald Seifer

  • Patterns of sleep and sleepiness in adolescents.

    Mary A. Carskadon

  • Self-reports versus sleep laboratory findings in 122 drug-free subjects with complaints of chronic insomnia.

    Mary A Carskadon;W. C. Dement;M. M. Mitler;C. Guilleminault

  • Pubertal changes in daytime sleepiness.

    Mary A. Carskadon;Kim Harvey;Paula Duke;Thomas F. Anders

  • Cumulative Effects of Sleep Restriction on Daytime Sleepiness

    Mary A. Carskadon;William C. Dement

  • Circadian rhythm sleep disorders: part II, advanced sleep phase disorder, delayed sleep phase disorder, free-running disorder, and irregular sleep-wake rhythm. An American Academy of Sleep Medicine review.

    Robert L. Sack;Dennis Auckley;R. Robert Auger;Mary A. Carskadon

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine Acebo
Christine Acebo Brown University
William C. Dement
William C. Dement Stanford University
Ronald Seifer
Ronald Seifer Brown University
Oskar G. Jenni
Oskar G. Jenni University of Zurich
Chantelle N. Hart
Chantelle N. Hart Temple University
John E. McGeary
John E. McGeary Brown University
Michelle A. Short
Michelle A. Short Flinders University
Christian Guilleminault
Christian Guilleminault Stanford University
Peter Achermann
Peter Achermann University of Zurich
Rena R. Wing
Rena R. Wing Brown University

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