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Martica Hall

Martica Hall, Ph.D.

Dr. Hall studies the impact of stress-related sleep disturbances on diverse populations, including healthy and depressed children, adults, and elders; family caregivers; health care workers; women during menopause; and elders with bereavement-related depression. Her research includes a variety of study designs: experimental laboratory studies, cross-sectional and longitudinal naturalistic studies, and intervention research with a focus on modeling causal mechanisms. She is the Co-Chair for the Society of Behavioral Medicine/International Congress of Behavioral Medicine's Program Track on Psychological Disorders and Sleep and the Chair of the Program Committee for the American Psychosomatic Society.

Positions

  • Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Assistant Professor, Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh

 

Education

  • Ph.D., 1985, University of Pittsburgh, Biopsychology

 

Relevant Publications

  • Troxel WM, Robles TF, Hall M, Buyesse DJ. Marital quality and the marital bed: examining the covariation between relationship quality and sleep. Sleep Med Rev. 2007;11(5):389-404.
  • Troxel WM, Cyranowski JM, Hall M, Frank E, Buysse DJ. Attachment anxiety, relationship context, and sleep in women with recurrent major depression. Psychosom Med. 2007;69(7):692-699.
  • Okun ML, Hall M, Coussons-Read ME. Sleep disturbances increase interleukin-6 production during pregnancy: implications for pregnancy complications. Reprod Sci. 2007;14(6):560-567.
  • Jennings JR, Muldoon MF, Hall M, Buysse DJ, Manuck SB. Self-reported sleep quality is associated with the metabolic syndrome. Sleep. 2007;30(2):219-223.
  • Hall M, Thayer JF, Germain A, et al. Psychological stress is associated with heightened physiological arousal during NREM sleep in primary insomnia. Behav Sleep Med. 2007;5(3):178-193.

 

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