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Ruth M. Benca is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their academic work primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a focus on subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, physiology, endocrine and autonomic systems, and clinical psychology.

The main topics of Ruth M. Benca's research include sleep and wakefulness research, sleep and related disorders, obstructive sleep apnea research, neuroscience of respiration and sleep, circadian rhythm and melatonin, youth substance use and school attendance, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Objective measurement of sleep in mild cognitive impairment: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, Sleep Medicine Reviews
  • Inflammation, tau pathology, and synaptic integrity associated with sleep spindles and memory prior to β-amyloid positivity, 2022, SLEEP
  • A high-density electroencephalography study reveals abnormal sleep homeostasis in patients with rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • A 2023 Update on Managing Insomnia in Primary Care, 2023, The Primary Care Companion For CNS Disorders
  • Alliance for Sleep Clinical Practice Guideline on Switching or Deprescribing Hypnotic Medications for Insomnia, 2023, Journal of Clinical Medicine

Frequent coauthors of Ruth M. Benca include:

  • Bryce A. Mander
  • Miranda G Chappel-Farley
  • Abhishek Dave
  • Ariel B. Neikrug
  • Ivy Y. Chen

The most common venues for their published work are:

  • SLEEP
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Sleep Medicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine

Best Publications

  • Sleep and Psychiatric Disorders: A Meta-analysis

    R M Benca;W H Obermeyer;R A Thisted;J C Gillin

  • Anterior cingulate activity as a predictor of degree of treatment response in major depression: evidence from brain electrical tomography analysis.

    Diego Pizzagalli;Roberto D. Pascual-Marqui;Jack B. Nitschke;Terrence R. Oakes

  • Sleep and Behavior Problems in School-Aged Children

    Mark A. Stein;Janis Mendelsohn;William H. Obermeyer;Julie Amromin

  • Metabolic rate in the right amygdala predicts negative affect in depressed patients.

    Heather C. Abercrombie;Stacey M. Schaefer;Christine L. Larson;Terrence R. Oakes

  • Functional but not structural subgenual prefrontal cortex abnormalities in melancholia

    D A Pizzagalli;T R Oakes;A S Fox;M K Chung

  • A multisite randomized trial of portable sleep studies and positive airway pressure autotitration versus laboratory-based polysomnography for the diagnosis and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea: The HomePAP study

    Carol L. Rosen;Dennis Auckley;Ruth Benca;Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer

  • Safety and efficacy of suvorexant during 1-year treatment of insomnia with subsequent abrupt treatment discontinuation: a phase 3 randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

    David Michelson;Ellen Snyder;Erin Paradis;Mary Chengan-Liu

  • Thalamic dysfunction in schizophrenia suggested by whole-night deficits in slow and fast spindles

    Fabio Ferrarelli;Michael J. Peterson;Simone Sarasso;Brady A. Riedner

  • Diagnosis and treatment of chronic insomnia: a review.

    Ruth M. Benca

  • Suvorexant in Patients With Insomnia: Results From Two 3-Month Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials

    W. Joseph Herring;Kathryn M. Connor;Neely Ivgy-May;Ellen Snyder

  • Insomnia and depression.

    Ruth M. Benca;Michael J. Peterson

  • Sleep-dependent improvement in visuomotor learning: a causal role for slow waves.

    Landsness Ec;Crupi D;Hulse Bk;Peterson Mj

  • Migratory Sleeplessness in the White-Crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia Leucophrys Gambelii)

    Niels C Rattenborg;Bruce H Mandt;William H Obermeyer;Peter J Winsauer

  • Sleep in Mood Disorders

    Michael J. Peterson;Ruth M. Benca

  • Amyloid burden is associated with self-reported sleep in nondemented late middle-aged adults

    Kate E. Sprecher;Barbara B. Bendlin;Annie M. Racine;Ozioma C. Okonkwo

  • Brain electrical tomography in depression: the importance of symptom severity, anxiety, and melancholic features.

    Diego A Pizzagalli;Jack B Nitschke;Terrence R Oakes;Andrew M Hendrick

  • Performance of an automated polysomnography scoring system versus computer-assisted manual scoring.

    Atul Malhotra;Magdy Younes;Samuel T. Kuna;Samuel T. Kuna;Ruth Benca

  • Poor sleep is associated with CSF biomarkers of amyloid pathology in cognitively normal adults.

    Kate E. Sprecher;Rebecca L. Koscik;Cynthia M. Carlsson;Henrik Zetterberg

  • Sleep and host defenses: a review.

    R M Benca;J Quintas

  • Sleep and mood disorders

    Ruth M. Benca;Masako Okawa;Makoto Uchiyama;Shigeru Ozaki

  • EEG alpha power and alpha power asymmetry in sleep and wakefulness

    Ruth M. Benca;William H. Obermeyer;Christine L. Larson;Blenda Yun

  • SLEEP IN PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS

    Ruth M. Benca

  • Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging measures of neural activity to positive social stimuli in pre- and post-treatment depression.

    Hillary S. Schaefer;Katherine M. Putnam;Ruth M. Benca;Richard J. Davidson

Frequent Co-Authors

Giulio Tononi
Giulio Tononi University of Wisconsin–Madison
Brady A. Riedner
Brady A. Riedner University of Wisconsin–Madison
Susan Redline
Susan Redline Brigham and Women's Hospital
Richard J. Davidson
Richard J. Davidson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Fabio Ferrarelli
Fabio Ferrarelli University of Pittsburgh
Chiara Cirelli
Chiara Cirelli University of Wisconsin–Madison
Christine L. Larson
Christine L. Larson University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Ozioma C. Okonkwo
Ozioma C. Okonkwo University of Wisconsin–Madison
Henrik Zetterberg
Henrik Zetterberg University of Gothenburg
Kaj Blennow
Kaj Blennow University of Gothenburg

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