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Amanda W. Calkins
Researcher at Boston University
Publications - 18
Citations - 1261
Amanda W. Calkins is an academic researcher from Boston University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Anxiety & Anxiety sensitivity. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 18 publications receiving 961 citations. Previous affiliations of Amanda W. Calkins include Harvard University.
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The effects of physical activity on sleep: a meta-analytic review
M. Alexandra Kredlow,Michelle C. Capozzoli,Bridget A. Hearon,Amanda W. Calkins,Michael W. Otto +4 more
TL;DR: A meta-analytical review of the effects of acute and regular exercise on sleep, incorporating a range of outcome and moderator variables, reveals that acute exercise has small beneficial effects on total sleep time, sleep onset latency, sleep efficiency, stage 1 sleep, and slow wave sleep.
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The Effects of Computerized Cognitive Control Training on Community Adults with Depressed Mood.
TL;DR: The results suggest that CCT is effective in altering depressed mood, although it may be specific to select mood dimensions.
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Psychosocial predictors of sleep dysfunction: the role of anxiety sensitivity, dysfunctional beliefs, and neuroticism.
TL;DR: Results highlight the continued value of higher order concepts like neuroticism in the development of disorder-specific measures like the DBAS, as well as indicate that distress in response to cognitive symptoms (AS-mental incapacitation) may play a role in maintaining sleep dysfunction.
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Recent Advances in Research on Cognition and Emotion in OCD: A Review
TL;DR: Research that has empirically validated the theoretical underpinnings of the cognitive model, altered maladaptive cognitive processes through state-of-the-art experimental procedures, refined the understanding of the relationship between obsessive beliefs and OC symptoms and examined how underlying traits relate to the development and maintenance of OCD are reviewed.
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Anxiety sensitivity and illicit sedative use among opiate-dependent women and men
Bridget A. Hearon,Amanda W. Calkins,Daniella M. Halperin,R. Kathryn McHugh,Heather W. Murray,Michael W. Otto +5 more
TL;DR: The presence of elevated AS is related to greater illicit use of sedatives in women but not in men, suggesting women may be more susceptible to seek sedatives as a means of coping with unpleasant, anxious sensations.