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Faculty Members:
Namni Goel, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
Department: Psychiatry
Contact information
Division of Sleep and Chronobiology
Unit for Experimental Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
1013 Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021
Unit for Experimental Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
1013 Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021
Office: 215-898-1742
Fax: 215-573-6410
Fax: 215-573-6410
Email:
goel@mail.med.upenn.edu
goel@mail.med.upenn.edu
Education:
BA (Psychology; Anthropology)
University of California, Berkeley, 1992.
MS (Biological Psychology)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1994.
PhD (Biological Psychology)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1996.
BA (Psychology; Anthropology)
University of California, Berkeley, 1992.
MS (Biological Psychology)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1994.
PhD (Biological Psychology)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1996.
Post-Graduate Training
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, 1996-1998.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical Center/New York Hospital, White Plains, NY, 1996-1998.
Permanent linkPostdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, 1996-1998.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical Center/New York Hospital, White Plains, NY, 1996-1998.
Description of Research Expertise
Circadian rhythmsSleep
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and nonseasonal depression
Light therapy
Characterization of individual differences
Genetics
Description of Clinical Expertise
Diagnosis and treatment of clinical depressionSCID training
Selected Publications
Goel, N., Banks, S., Lin, L., Mignot, E., Dinges, D.F.: Catechol-O-Methyltransferase Val158Met polymorphism associates with individual differences in sleep physiologic responses to chronic sleep loss. PLoS ONE 6(12): e29283, 2011.Goel, N., Banks, S., Mignot, E., Dinges, D.F.: DQB1*0602 predicts interindividual differences in physiologic sleep, sleepiness and fatigue. (Subject of Editorial in Neurology). Neurology 75: 1509-1519, 2010.
Goel, N., Banks, S., Mignot, E., Dinges, D.F.: PER3 polymorphism predicts cumulative sleep homeostatic but not neurobehavioral changes to chronic sleep restriction. PLoS ONE 4(6): e5874, 2009.
Goel, N., Stunkard, A.J., Rogers, N.L., Van Dongen, H., Allison, K.C., O’Reardon, J.P., Ahima, R.S., Cummings, D.E., Heo, M., Dinges, D.F. : Circadian rhythm profiles in women with night eating syndrome. Journal of Biological Rhythms 24: 85-94, 2009.
Allison, K.C., O’Reardon, J.P., Ahima, R.S., Dinges, D.F., Goel, N., Stunkard, A.J.: Neuroendocrine levels, circadian profiles, and sleep in night eating syndrome: Integration of findings. Sociedad Iberoamericana de Información Científica (SIIC) 16: 160-163, 2008.
Goel, N., Lao, R.P.: Sleep changes vary by odor perception in young adults. Biological Psychology 71: 341-346, 2006.
Goel, N.: An arousing musically-enhanced bird song stimulus mediates circadian rhythm phase advances in dim light. American Journal of Physiology- Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 291: R822-R827, 2006.
Goel, N., Etwaroo, G.R.: Bright light, negative air ions and auditory stimuli produce rapid mood changes in a student population: A placebo-controlled study. Psychological Medicine 36: 1253-1264, 2006.
Goel, N., Kim, H., Lao, R.P.: Gender differences in polysomnographic sleep in young healthy sleepers. Chronobiology International 22: 905-915, 2005.
Goel, N.: Late-night presentation of an auditory stimulus phase delays human circadian rhythms. American Journal of Physiology- Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 289: R209-R216, 2005.
