Home » People » Faculty
Unit for Experimental Psychiatry
Faculty
Mathias Basner, M.D., M.Sc.
Research Associate in Epidemiology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Division of Sleep and Chronobiology, Department of Psychiatry
Mathias Basner, M.D., M.Sc. is a Research Associate in Psychiatry in the School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Basner received his degree in Medicine from the University of Bochum, Germany and M.Sc. in Epidemiology from the University of Bielefeld, Germany. Dr. Basner trained at Institute for Applied Physiology at the University of Bochum and worked as a research associate at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Flight Physiology Division from 1999 until 2006 before moving to the United States to pursue his research interests in the neurobehavioral consequences of sleep loss.
Beside the effects of traffic noise on sleep, the effects of sleep loss on neurobehavioral and cognitive functioning is Dr. Basner's primary research interest. Dr. Basner conducted several large scale laboratory and field studies on the effects of traffic noise on sleep between 1999 and 2006 as co-investigator and primary investigator. Dose-response relationships between the maximum sound pressure level of aircraft noise events on awakening probabilities were derived and used for the development of new protection concepts for airport residents against adverse effects of nocturnal aircraft noise.
Dr. Basner is a member of the German Sleep Society and the World Association of Sleep Medicine.
Research Interests
Effects of traffic noise on sleep, sleep loss, neurobehavioral performance, daytime sleepiness, individual differences, sleep structure and regulation, habitual sleep time.
Selected Bibliography
Basner, M., Isermann, U., Samel, A. (2006): Aircraft noise effects on sleep: Application of the results of a large polysomnographic field study, J. Acoust. Soc .Am., 119, 5 pt. 1 of 2, p. 2772-2784
Basner, M. (2006): Markov State Transition Models for the Prediction of Changes in Sleep Structure Induced by Aircraft Noise, Forschungsbericht DLR FB 2006-07, ISSN 1434-8454
Quehl, J., Basner, M. (2006): Annoyance from nocturnal aircraft noise exposure: Laboratory and field-specific dose-response curves, J. Exp. Psychol, in press
Basner, M., Samel, A. (2005): Effects of Nocturnal Aircraft Noise on Sleep Structure, Somnologie 9(2), 84-95
Basner, M., Samel, A.: Aircraft noise effects on sleep: results of 2240 polysomnographically recorded subject nights in laboratory and field studies, World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM), First Congress, Sleep Medicine 6 (Suppl2): 12-13, Berlin, 15.-18.10.2005
Basner, M., Samel, A. (2004): DLR Research on Nocturnal Aircraft Noise Effects, Noise & Health (6) 22: 83-93
Basner, M., Buess, H. et al. (2004): Effects of Nocturnal Aircraft Noise - Volume 1 - Executive Summary, Forschungsbericht DLR FB 2004-07/E, ISSN 1434-8454
Basner, M. et al. (2003): Aircraft noise effects on sleep - preliminary results on 64 subjects and 832 laboratory nights, 8th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem (ICBEN), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 29.06.-03.07.2003, Proceedings pp. 201-202
Samel, A., Basner, M. , Maaß, H. (2003): Effects of aircraft noise on human sleep, performance and annoyance, 74th Annual Scientific Meeting AsMA, San Antonio/USA, 04.-07.05.2003, Abstract N° 383: Aviat. Space Environ. Med. 74: 452