Full Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Université de Montréal Psychologist (College of Psychologists of Quebec) Director of the Dream and Nightmare Laboratory 514-338-2222 ext. 3350 tore.nielsen(at)umontreal.ca Education: Post-doctorate in Psychiatry (Université de Montréal) Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology (University of Alberta) M.Sc. in Experimental Psychology (University of Calgary) Research Interests: Effect of REM sleep deprivation on dreaming. Psychophysiology and treatment of patients with nightmares and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Parasomnias among children and new mothers. Effects of virtual reality immersion on dreaming. Population studies of dreaming and nightmares. Methodologies: Polysomnography, selective REM sleep deprivation, spectral analysis of the EEG and ECG, sensory stimulation during sleep, virtual reality exposure, sampling and analysis of lab and home dreams, internet-based dream collection.
Team in training:
	Isabelle Godin   Ph.D. candidate in Psychologie R/I (Université de Montréal))   Thesis title: Dreams and brain metabolism (SPECT) in REM sleep behavior   disorder
	Philippe Stenstrom, Ph.D.   Ph.D. in Psychology (Université de Montréal) since 2011   Thesis title:
	Jessica Lara-Carrasco   Ph.D. candidate in Psychology (Université de Montréal)   Thesis title:
	Claudia Brassard   Ph.D. candidate in Psychology (Sherbrooke University)   Thesis title:
	Elizaveta Solomonova (co-supervised with Dr. Sha Xin Wei)   Ph.D. candidate (Université de Montréal)   Thesis title: The embodied subject in wake and dreaming: study of first-   person experience following training in an introspective technique based   on phenomenology and Shamatha meditation
	Ani Popova   M.Sc. candidate (Université de Montréal)   Thesis title:

Recent publications:

Nielsen TA, Paquette T, Solomonova E, Lara-Carrasco J, Colombo R, Lanfranchi P. Changes in cardiac variability after REM sleep deprivation in recurrent nightmares. Sleep 2010, 33(1), 113-22.

Nielsen TA. Nightmares associated with the eveningness chronotype. J Biol Rhythms 2010, 25(1), 53-62.

Nielsen TA, Paquette T, Solomonova E, Lara-Carrasco J, Popova A, Levrier K. REM sleep characteristics of nightmare sufferers before and after REM sleep deprivation. Sleep Med 2010, 11(2), 172-9.

Lara-Carrasco J, Nielsen TA, Solomonova E, Levrier K, Popova A. Overnight emotional adaptation to negative stimuli is altered by REM sleep deprivation and is correlated with intervening dream emotions. J Sleep Res 2009, 18, 178-87.

Levin R, Nielsen T. Nightmares, bad dreams and emotion dysregulation: A review and new neurocognitive model of dreaming. Current Directions in Psychological Science 2009, 18, 84-8.

Simard V, Nielsen TA, Tremblay R, Boivin M, Montplaisir JY. 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 2008, 162(4), 360-7.

Solomonova E, Nielsen TA, Stenstrom P, Simard V, Frantova E, Donderi D. Sensed presence as a correlate of sleep paralysis distress, social anxiety and waking state social imagery. Conscious Cogn 2008, 17, 49-63.

Simard V, Nielsen TA, Tremblay R, Boivin M, Montplaisir JY. Longitudinal study of bad dreams in preschool children: prevalence, demographic correlates, risk and protective factors. Sleep 2008, 31, 62-70.

Nielsen TA, Paquette T. Dream-associated behaviors affecting pregnant and postpartum women. Sleep 2007, 30(9), 1162-9.

Nielsen TA, Levin R. Nightmares: a new neurocognitive model. Sleep Med Rev 2007, 11(4), 295-310.