Rebecca Bernert

 
Graduate Student in Clinical Psychology
 
Department of Psychology
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1270
 
 
Publications:

Bernert RA, Joiner TE, Cukrowicz KC, Schmidt NB, Krakow B (2005). Suicidality and sleep disturbances. SLEEP, 28(9), 1135-1141.

Joiner TE, Bernert RA, Jack DC (2005). The bidimensional structure of suicidal symptoms in Nepal. Archives of Suicide Research, 9(4), 345-351.

Schmidt NB, Salas D, Bernert RA, Schatschneider C (2005). Diagnosing agoraphobia in the context of panic disorder: examining the effect of DSM-IV criteria on diagnostic decision-making. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 43(9), 1219-1229.

Cukrowicz KC, Otamendi A, Pinto JV, Bernert RA, Joiner TE, Krakow B (In press). The impact of insomnia and sleep disturbances on anxiety, depression, and suicidality. Dreaming.

Lewy AJ, Emens JS, Bernert RA, Lefler BJ (2004). Eventual entrainment of the human circadian pacemaker by melatonin is independent of the circadian phase of treatment initiation: clinical implications. Journal of Biological Rhythms, 19, 68-75.

Lewy AJ, Emens J, Sack RL, Hasler BP, Bernert RA (2003). Zeitgeber hierarchy in humans: resetting the circadian phase position of blind people using melatonin. Chronobiology International, 20(5), 837-852.

Lewy AJ, Emens JS, Sack RL, Hasler BP, Bernert RA (2002). Low, but not high, doses of melatonin entrained a free-running blind person with a long circadian period. Chronobiology International, 19(3), 649-658.

Manuscripts Submitted for Publication

Pfaff JJ, Bernert RA, Hollar DL, Witte TK, Merrill KA, Pettit JW, Joiner TE (In submission). Birth month and depressive and suicidal symptoms in an elderly Australian sample born in the southern or northern hemisphere. Psychiatry Research.

Manuscripts in Preparation

Witte TK, Merrill KA, Stellrecht N, Bernert RA, Hollar Dl, Schatschneider C, Joiner TE (In preparation). "Impulsive" suicidal adolescents are not all that impulsive.

Bernert RA, Joiner JE (In preparation). A circadian vulnerability for depression: eveningness and sleep variability.

Published Abstracts

Bernert RA, Cromer KR, Joiner TE, Wonderlich, SA (In press). ED and OC: a unique overlap between eating-disordered and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Depression & Anxiety.

Cromer KR, Bernert RA, Schmidt, NB (In press). Investigation of the dimensional nature of OCD via factor analysis in a non-clinical sample. Depression & Anxiety.

Lewy AJ, Lefler BJ, Yuhas K, Hasler BP, Bernert RA, Emens JS (2004). The "sweet spot" for the plasma dim light melatonin onset for winter depressives treated with low-dose daytime melatonin: support for the phase shift hypothesis (PSH). Neuropsychopharmacology, 29(1), S103-S104.

Emens JS, Lewy AJ, Bernert RA, Lefler BJ (2003). Entrainment of the human circadian pacemaker by melatonin is independent of the circadian phase of treatment initiation. Chronobiology International, 20(6), 1189-1191.

Lewy AJ, Lefler BJ, Hasler BP, Bauer VK, Bernert RA and Emens JS (2003). Plasma DLMO10 zeitgeber time 14: The therapeutic window for phase-delayed winter depressives treated with melatonin. Chronobiology International, 20(6), 1215-1217.

Lewy AJ, Emens JS, Hasler BP, Bernert RA, Bhargava A, and Sack RL (2002). Avoiding "spillover" onto the wrong zone of the melatonin PRC may enhance melatonin's phase-shifting effects. Chronobiology International, 19(5), 978-979.

Poster Presentations

Bernert RA, Cromer RA, Joiner TE, Schmidt NB, Kotov RI, Watson D. Sleep and obsessive-compulsive symptoms: Unusual sleep experiences and increased dream recall are associated with elevated OC symptoms. The 39th Annual Convention of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, November, 2005, Washington DC.

Witte T, Merrill K, Stellrecht N, Bernert RA, Hollar D, Joiner T. "Impulsive" Suicidal adolescents are not all that impulsive. The 39th Annual Convention of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, November, 2005, Washington DC.

Bernert RA, Cromer KR, Joiner TE, Wonderlich, SA. ED and OC: a unique overlap between eating-disordered and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Anxiety Disorders Association of America 25th Annual Meeting, March 17, 2005, Seattle, WA.

Cromer KR, Bernert RA, Schmidt, NB. Investigation of the dimensional nature of OCD via factor analysis in a non-clinical sample. Anxiety Disorders Association of America 25th Annual Meeting, March 17, 2005, Seattle, WA.

Bernert RA, Cukrowicz KC, Schmidt NB, Joiner TE. Suicidality and sleep disturbances. The 38th Annual Convention of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, November 20, 2004, New Orleans, LA.

Bernert RA, Schmidt NB. Diagnosing agoraphobia in the context of panic disorder: examining the effect of DSM-IV criteria on diagnostic decision-making. Anxiety Disorders Association of America 24th Annual Meeting, March 13, 2004, Miami, FL.

Lewy AJ, Emens JS, Hasler BP, Bernert RA, Bhargava A, Sack RL. Avoiding "spillover" onto the wrong zone of the melatonin PRC may enhance melatonin's phase-shifting effects. Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms 14th Annual Meeting, June 13, 2002, San Diego, CA.

Lewy AJ, Emens J, Hasler BP, Boney R, Bernert RA, Bauer VK, Sack RL. Tau-phenotyping blind and sighted subjects for human clock gene research. Annual Meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), December 9, 2001, Honolulu, HI.