Tore Nielsen, Ph. D.
Professeur titulaire, Département de psychiatrie, Université de Montréal
Téléphone : 514-338-2222 poste 3350
Télécopieur : 514-338-2531
Formation et titres de compétences
- Post-doctorat (psychiatrie-sommeil), Université de Montréal, 1988-1991
- Post-doctorat (psychologie), University of Alberta, 1987-1988
- Ph. D. (psychologie expérimentale), University of Alberta, 1983-1986
- M. Sc. (psychologie expérimentale), University of Alberta, 1979-1983
- B.A. (psychologie), University of Calgary, 1973-1977
Domaine, thèmes et intérêts de recherche
Anxiété, cauchemars, parasomnies, polysomnographie, psychophysiologie, réalité virtuelle, rêves, SSPT (PTSD), troubles du sommeil, émotions.
Prix et distinctions
- 2003-jusqu’à présent Chercheur-Professeur, Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec
- 2000-2003 Chercheur-boursier Senior, Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec
- 1998-2000 Chercheur-boursier Junior 2, Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec
- 1993-1998 Chercheur-boursier, Conseil de Recherche en Médecine du Canada
Affiliations
Centre de recherche Fernand-Séguin de l’Hôpital Louis-H. Lafontaine
Publications
Sous-presse
Nielsen T.A., Paquette T., Solomonova E., Lara-Carrasco, J., Colombo, R., Lanfranchi, P. Changes in cardiac variability after REM sleep deprivation in recurrent nightmares. Sleep.
Simard, V., Nielsen, T. Adaptation of Imagery Rehearsal Therapy for nightmares in children: A brief report. Psychotherapy.
Nielsen, T., Svob, C., Kuiken, D. Dream behaviors in a normal population. Sleep.
Nielsen T.A., Paquette T., Solomonova E., Lara-Carrasco J., Popova A., Levrier, K. REM sleep characteristics of nightmare sufferers before and after REM sleep deprivation. Sleep Medicine.
Nielsen, T.A. Nightmares associated with the eveningness chronotype. Journal of Biological Rhythms.
Nielsen, T., Svob, C., Kuiken, D. The prevalence of dream behaviors. Frontiers of Neuroscience. 3(3).
Publiées
Lara-Carrasco, J., Nielsen, T.A., Solomonova, E., Levrier, K., Popova, A. (2009) Overnight emotional adaptation to negative stimuli is altered by REM sleep deprivation and is correlated with intervening dream emotions. Journal of Sleep Research, 18:178-187.
Levin, R. & Nielsen, T. (2009) Nightmares, bad dreams and emotion dysregulation: A review and new neurocognitive model of dreaming. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18:84-88.
Simard, V., Nielsen, T.A., Tremblay, R., Boivin, M. & Montplaisir, J.Y. (2008) Longitudinal study of preschool sleep disturbance: the predictive role of maladaptive parental behaviours, early sleep problems and child/mother psychological factors. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 162:360-367.
Solomonova, E., Nielsen, T.A., Stenstrom, P., Simard, V., Frantova, E. & Donderi, D. (2008). Sensed presence as a correlate of sleep paralysis distress, social anxiety and waking state social imagery. Consciousness & Cognition, 17:49-63.
Simard, V. Nielsen, T.A., Tremblay, R., Boivin, M. & Montplaisir, J.Y. (2008) Longitudinal study of bad dreams in preschool children: prevalence, demographic correlates, risk and protective factors. Sleep. 31:62-70.
Nielsen, T.A. & Paquette, T. (2007) Dream-associated behaviors affecting pregnant and postpartum women. Sleep. 30:1162-1169.
Nielsen, T.A. & Levin, R. (2007) Nightmares: a new neurocognitive model. Sleep Medicine Reviews. 11:295-310.
Nielsen, T.A., Stenstrom, P., Levin, R. (2006) Nightmare frequency as a function of age, gender and September 11, 2001: Findings from an internet questionnaire. Dreaming, 16:145-158.
Nielsen, T.A. & Stenstrom, P. (2005) What are the memory sources of dreaming? Nature, 437:34-38.
Étudiants et stagiaires
- Philippe Stenstrom, doctorat
- Jessica Lara-Carrasco, doctorat
- Elizaveta Solomonova, maîtrise
- Katia Levrier, maîtrise
- Ani Popova, maîtrise
Personnel de recherche
Tyna Paquette, coordonnatrice de recherche
Collaborateurs
- Don Kuiken, Ph. D. Dept. Psychology, University of Alberta
- Ross Levin, Einstein College of Medicine
- Jacques Montplaisir, M.D., Ph. D., FRCP, psychiatrie, Université de Montréal
- Stéphane Bouchard, Ph. D., Université du Québec en Outaouais
- Sarah Fuller, photographe
Subventions
- CCA Alberta Creative Development Initiative: Grants to Individual Programs, Sarah Fuller (PI), Research and creation of a new photographic work based on documentation of dreaming, $20,000 for 1 yr (2008)
- CFI Leading Edge Fund, Stéphane Bouchard (PI), Canadian Cyberpsychology and Anxiety Virtual Lab, $1,166,282 total for 3 yrs (2006-2009)
- CFI New Initiatives Fund, Jacques Montplaisir (PI), Center for advanced research in sleep medicine, $2,023,122 total for 3 yrs (2006-2009)
- SSHRC Standard Research Grant, What are the memory sources of dreams? Development of self-observational and text-mining methods to assess the effects of virtual environment exposure on dreaming, $142,758 total (2006-2010)
- NSERC Discovery grant renewal (RGPIN – Discovery Grants Program), REM sleep determinants of mentation reported from NREM sleep: further tests of the covert-REM model, $23,809/year (2005-2011)
- CIHR Group Grant, Diagnostic, physiopathologie et traitement des troubles du sommeil, with Jacques Montplaisir (PI), Guy Rouleau, Marie Dumont, Gilles Lavigne, Julie Carrier (& collaborators : Paola Lanfranchi, Antonio Zadra), $1,013,068 total (2005-2010)
