Faculty Profile

Center for Sleep and Cognition, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

My current and long-term research interests include
1. The neurobiological interactions between sleep, higher cognitive function and emotions in the context of psychopathology (especially the addictions). My current research is focused on the acute and long-term effects of psychostimulant abuse on sleep and cognition using techniques of neuropsychology, neurophysiology, and human behavioral pharmacology
2. The effects of sleep and sleep deprivation on higher cognitive functions including decision-making and executive, affective and social cognition.
3. The effects of sleep and sleep deprivation on declarative and emotional memory
4. The neuropsychology and brain bases of dreaming and states of consciousness
5. Neurodevelopmental disorders

Robert Stickgold, PhD; J. Allan Hobson, MD

NIDA, DA11744 Drug abuse sleep and cognition
NIH MH-48,832, State dependent aspects of cognition

Guest lectures on sleep and dreaming at Boston University, public and professional meetings; organize Neurophysiology Seminar

Degree
PhD, May 2006 from Boston University School of Medicine, Division of Graduate Medical Sciences; Department of Behavioral Neuroscience

Edgar CJ, Pace-Schott EF, Wesnes KA. Approaches to measuring the effects of wake-promoting drugs: a focus on cognitive function.
Hum Psychopharmacol. 2009 Jul;24(5):371-89. Review. [PMID: 19565524]

Pace-Schott EF, Hutcherson CA, Bemporad B, Morgan A, Kumar A, Hobson JA, Stickgold R. Failure to find executive function deficits following one night's total sleep deprivation in university students under naturalistic conditions.
Behav Sleep Med. 2009;7(3):136-63. [PMID: 19568965]

Pace-Schott EF, Milad MR, Orr SP, Rauch SL, Stickgold R, Pitman RK. Sleep promotes generalization of extinction of conditioned fear.
Sleep. 2009 Jan 1;32(1):19-26. [PMID: 19189775]

Morgan PT, Pace-Schott EF, Sahul ZH, Coric V, Stickgold R, Malison RT. Sleep architecture, cocaine and visual learning.
Addiction. 2008 Aug;103(8):1344-52. [PMID: 18855824]

Pace-Schott EF, Morgan PT, Malison RT, Hart CL, Edgar C, Walker M, Stickgold R. Cocaine users differ from normals on cognitive tasks which show poorer performance during drug abstinence.
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2008;34(1):109-21. [PMID: 18161649]

Morgan PT, Pace-Schott EF, Sahul ZH, Coric V, Stickgold R, Malison RT. Sleep, sleep-dependent procedural learning and vigilance in chronic cocaine users: Evidence for occult insomnia.
Drug Alcohol Depend. 2006 May 20;82(3):238-49. Epub 2005 Nov 2. [PMID: 16260094]

Pace-Schott EF, Stickgold R, Muzur A, Wigren PE, Ward AS, Hart CL, Walker M, Edgar C, Hobson JA. Cognitive performance by humans during a smoked cocaine binge-abstinence cycle.
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2005;31(4):571-91. [PMID: 16320435]

Pace-Schott EF, Stickgold R, Muzur A, Wigren PE, Ward AS, Hart CL, Clarke D, Morgan A, Hobson JA. Sleep quality deteriorates over a binge--abstinence cycle in chronic smoked cocaine users.
Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2005 Jun;179(4):873-83. [PMID: 15672273]

Jacobs GD, Pace-Schott EF, Stickgold R, Otto MW. Cognitive behavior therapy and pharmacotherapy for insomnia: a randomized controlled trial and direct comparison.
Arch Intern Med. 2004 Sep 27;164(17):1888-96. [PMID: 15451764]

Muzur A, Pace-Schott EF, Hobson JA. The prefrontal cortex in sleep.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2002 Nov 1;6(11):475-481. [PMID: 12457899]

Hobson JA, Pace-Schott EF. The cognitive neuroscience of sleep: neuronal systems, consciousness and learning.
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2002 Sep;3(9):679-93. [PMID: 12209117]

Pace-Schott EF, Hobson JA. The neurobiology of sleep: genetics, cellular physiology and subcortical networks.
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2002 Aug;3(8):591-605. [PMID: 12154361]

Kahn D, Pace-Schott E, Hobson JA. Emotion and cognition: feeling and character identification in dreaming.
Conscious Cogn. 2002 Mar;11(1):34-50. [PMID: 11883987]

Silvestri R, Pace-Schott EF, Gersh T, Stickgold R, Salzman C, Hobson JA. Effects of fluvoxamine and paroxetine on sleep structure in normal subjects: a home-based Nightcap evaluation during drug administration and withdrawal.
J Clin Psychiatry. 2001 Aug;62(8):642-52. [PMID: 11561938]

Hobson JA, Pace-Schott EF, Stickgold R. Dreaming and the brain: toward a cognitive neuroscience of conscious states.
Behav Brain Sci. 2000 Dec;23(6):793-842; discussion 904-1121. Review. Erratum in: Behav Brain Sci 2001 Jun;24(3):575. [PMID: 11515143]

Pace-Schott EF, Gersh T, Silvestri R, Stickgold R, Salzman C, Hobson JA. SSRI treatment suppresses dream recall frequency but increases subjective dream intensity in normal subjects.
J Sleep Res. 2001 Jun;10(2):129-42. [PMID: 11422727]

Kahn D, Stickgold R, Pace-Schott EF, Hobson JA. Dreaming and waking consciousness: a character recognition study.
J Sleep Res. 2000 Dec;9(4):317-25. [PMID: 11386201]

Hobson JA, Pace-Schott EF, Stickgold R, Kahn D. To dream or not to dream? Relevant data from new neuroimaging and electrophysiological studies.
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 1998 Apr;8(2):239-44. [PMID: 9635208]

Hobson JA, Stickgold R, Pace-Schott EF. The neuropsychology of REM sleep dreaming.
Neuroreport. 1998 Feb 16;9(3):R1-14. [PMID: 9512371]

Hobson JA, Stickgold R, Pace-Schott EF, Leslie KR. Sleep and vestibular adaptation: implications for function in microgravity.
J Vestib Res. 1998 Jan-Feb;8(1):81-94. [PMID: 9416594]

Kahn D, Pace-Schott EF, Hobson JA. Consciousness in waking and dreaming: the roles of neuronal oscillation and neuromodulation in determining similarities and differences.
Neuroscience. 1997 May;78(1):13-38. [PMID: 9135087]

Pace-Schott EF, Kaji J, Stickgold R, Hobson JA. Nightcap measurement of sleep quality in self-described good and poor sleepers.
Sleep. 1994 Dec;17(8):688-92. [PMID: 7701179]