Full Professor, Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal Psychologist (Ordre des psychologues du Québec) 514-343-6626 antonio.zadra(at)umontreal.ca Education: Post-doctorat in Psychiatry (Université de Montréal) Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology (Université McGill) M.Sc. in Experimental Psychology (Université McGill) Research Interests: The pathophysiology of sleepwalking. Relationship between the content of dreams and nightmares and psychological well-being. Recurring dreams, lucid dreams, assessment and treatment of parasomnias, and REM sleep EEG.  Methodologies: Polysomnography, spectral analysis of the EEG, collections of nocturnal dreams and dream journals.
Team in training:
	Mylène Duval   Ph.D. candidate in Psychology R/I (Université de Montréal)   Thesis title: Assessing the frequency, content and distress associated with   nightmares among victims of abuse in childhood
	Geneviève Robert   Ph.D. candidate in Psychology R/I (Université de Montréal)   Thesis title: Study of idiopathic nightmares
	Marc-Antoine Labelle (co-supervision)   Ph.D. candidate in Psychology R/I (Université de Montréal)   Thesis title: Pathophysiology of somnambulism
	Aline Gauchat   Ph.D. candidate in Psychology R/I (Université de Montréal)   Thesis title: Prevalence and correlates of nightmares in children: a   longitudinal study
	Rosemarie Perreault (co-supervised with Julie Carrier)    Ph.D. candidate in Neuropsychology R/I (Université de Montréal)    Thesis title: Analysis of slow-wave activity and slow oscillations in    sleepwalkers

Recent publications:

Pilon M, Montplaisir J, Zadra A. Precipating factors of somnambulism: impact of sleep deprivation and forced arousals. Neurology 2008, 70(24), 2284-90.

Zadra A, Pilon M, Montplaisir J. Polysomnographic diagnosis of sleepwalking: effects of sleep deprivation. Annals of Neurology 2008, 63(4), 513-9.

Zadra A, Desjardins S, Marcotte E. Evolutionary function of dreams: A test of the threat simulation theory in recurrent dreams. Conscious Cogn 2006, 15(2), 450-63.

Zadra A, Pilon M, Donderi DC. Variety and intensity of emotions in nightmares and bad dreams, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 2006, 194(4), 249-54.

Pilon M, Zadra A, Joncas S, Montplaisir J. Hypersynchronous delta waves and somnambulism: brain topography and effect of sleep deprivation. Sleep 2006, 29(1), 77-84.

Zadra A, Donderi DC. Nightmares and bad dreams: Their prevalence and relationship to well-being. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 2000, 109, 273-81.

Gaudreau H, Joncas S, Zadra A, Montplaisir J. Dynamics of slow-wave activity during the NREM sleep of sleepwalkers and control subjects. Sleep 2000, 23, 755-60.

Zadra A, Décary E. étude objective des récits de rêves littéraires du Moyen-âge au XXe siècle. Dans : Vandendorpe, C. (Ed). Le récit de rêve. Fonctions, thèmes et symboles. Québec: Nota Bene, 2005.

Nielsen TA, Zadra A. Dreaming disorders. Dans: Kryger, M., Roth, N., & Dement, W.C. (Eds.), Principles and practices of sleep medicine, 3rd Edition. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co, pp. 753-772, 2002.

Zadra, A. Recurrent dreams: Their relation to life events. Dans: Barrett, D. (Ed.), Trauma and dreams, pp. 231-247. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.