RESEARCH_FILE
Allison G. Harvey
University of Oxford / University of California, Berkeley
Known for:The cognitive model of insomnia — showing how worry, monitoring and distorted perception of sleep maintain sleeplessness.
Key findings
- 2002
Proposed that insomnia is maintained by excessive negatively toned cognitive activity: worry triggers arousal and selective attention, which distort the perception of sleep and feed further worry. A cognitive model of insomnia ↗
- 2003
With Catherine Greenall, documented catastrophic worry in primary insomnia: night-time thoughts escalate stepwise toward worst-case daytime consequences. Catastrophic worry in primary insomnia ↗
- 2007
With Tang and Schmidt, showed experimentally that instructed clock monitoring causes more sleep-related worry and longer sleep onset in people with insomnia. Sleeping with the enemy: Clock monitoring in the maintenance of insomnia ↗