Dan Denis

Experience

• 2024–present
  Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of York
• 2022–2024
  Senior research fellow, Department of Psychology, University of York
• 2019–2021
  Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame
• 2017–2019
  Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
• 2016–2017
  Research assistant, MRC Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, King's College London
• 2013–2016
  PhD student, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield

Education

• 2017 
  University of Sheffield, PhD Psychology
• 2013 
  Goldsmiths, University of London, MRes Psychology
• 2012 
  Goldsmiths, University of London, BSc Psychology

Publications

• 2024
  Targeted dream incubation at a distance: The development of a remote and sensor-free tool for incubating hypnagogic dreams and mind-wandering, Frontiers in Sleep
• 2024
  Delineating memory reactivation in sleep with verbal and non-verbal retrieval cues, Cerebral Cortex
• 2024
  Targeted memory reactivation during non-rapid eye movement sleep enhances neutral, but not negative, components of memory, eNeuro
• 2024
  Age-related positivity effect in emotional memory consolidation from middle age to late adulthood, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
• 2024
  Electrophysiological mechanisms of memory consolidation in human non-rapid eye movement slee, Current Sleep Medicine Reports
• 2023
  The influence of encoding strategy on associative memory consolidation across wake and sleep, Learning and Memory
• 2023
  Beta spectral power during sleep is associated with impaired recall of extinguished fear, Sleep
• 2023
  Associations between sleep variables and ostensibly paranormal experiences and paranormal beliefs: A systematic scoping review, British Journal of Psychology
• 2023
  The effects of emotion regulation and sleep on emotional memory formation, Cognition and Emotion
• 2023
  Neural reactivation during human sleep, Emerging Topics in Life Sciences
• 2023
  Changes in sleep timing consistency and perceived life stress across the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal analysis of a predominately female United States convenience sample, Clocks and Sleep
• 2023
  The associations between paranormal beliefs and sleep variables, Journal of Sleep Research
• 2023
  Isolated sleep paralysis: Clinical features, perception of aetiology, prevention and disruption strategies in a large international sample, Sleep Medicine
• 2022
  Slow oscillation-spindle coupling is negatively associated with emotional memory formation following stress, European Journal of Neuroscience
• 2022
  Sleep preferentially enhances negative aspects of human memory: Well-powered evidence from two large online experiences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2022
  How the 2020 US Presidential election impacted our sleep and psychological well-being, Sleep Health
• 2021
  Sleep power spectral density and spindles in PTSD and their relationship to symptom severity, Frontiers in Psychiatry
• 2021
  Sleep spindles preferentially consolidate weakly encoded memories, The Journal of Neuroscience
• 2021
  Sleep spectral power correlates of prospective memory maintenance, Learning and Memory
• 2021
  Using EEG microstates to examine post-encoding quiet rest and subsequent word-pair memory, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
• 2020
  The roles of item exposure and visualization success in the consolidation of memories across wake and sleep, Learning and Memory
• 2020
  Is digital cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia effective in treating subthreshold insomnia: A pilot feasibility study, Sleep Medicine
• 2020
  A paradoxical effect of sleep for emotional reactivity in insomnia disorder?, Sleep
• 2020
  Exploding head syndrome: Clinical features, theories about etiology, and prevention methods in a large international Sample, Sleep Medicine
• 2019
  Associations between pre-sleep arousal and insomnia symptoms in early adulthood: A twin and sibling study, Sleep
• 2019
  Associations between exploding head syndrome and measures of sleep quality and experiences, dissociation, and well-being, Sleep
• 2018
  The relationship between sleep paralysis and sleep quality: Current insights, Nature and Science of Sleep
• 2018
  Subjective sleep-related variables in those who have and have not experienced sleep paralysis, Journal of Sleep Research
• 2018
  A systematic review of variables associated with sleep paralysis, Sleep Medicine Reviews
• 2017
  Sleep Treatment Outcome Predictors (STOP) pilot study: A protocol for a randomised controlled trial examining predictors of changes of insomnia symptoms and associated traits following cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia in an unselected sample, BMJ Open
• 2017
  Externalizing behaviors and callous-unemotional traits: Different associations with sleep quality, Sleep
• 2017
  Terror and bliss? Commonalities and distinctions between sleep paralysis, lucid dreaming, and their associations with waking life experiences, Journal of Sleep Research
• 2017
  The role of cortical sensorimotor oscillations in action anticipation, NeuroImage
• 2015
  A twin and molecular genetics study of sleep paralysis and associated factors, Journal of Sleep Research

Grants and Contracts

• 2022
  Optimising memory: Understanding the role of sleep in selective memory strengthening

  Role:

  Principal Investigator

  Funding Source:

  European Commission

Professional Memberships

• Sleep Research Society
• Society for Neuroscience
• Cognitive Neuroscience Society
• Society for Biological Psychiatry
• International Early Psychosis Association