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Thomas A. Mellman
Researcher at Howard University
Publications - 80
Citations - 3839
Thomas A. Mellman is an academic researcher from Howard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sleep disorder & Polysomnography. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 72 publications receiving 3410 citations. Previous affiliations of Thomas A. Mellman include Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center & Georgetown University.
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Prazosin Effects on Objective Sleep Measures and Clinical Symptoms in Civilian Trauma Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Placebo-Controlled Study
Fletcher B. Taylor,Patti Martin,Charles E. Thompson,Judi Williams,Thomas A. Mellman,Christopher Gross,Elaine R. Peskind,Murray A. Raskind +7 more
TL;DR: Prazosin reductions of nighttime PTSD symptoms in civilian trauma PTSD are accompanied by increased total sleep time, REMSleep time, and mean REM period duration in the absence of a sedative-like effect on sleep onset latency.
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Trauma, Resilience, and Recovery in a High-Risk African-American Population
Tanya N. Alim,Adriana Feder,Ruth Elaine Graves,Yanping Wang,James Weaver,Maren Westphal,Angelique Alonso,Notalelomwan Aigbogun,Bruce W. Smith,John Doucette,Thomas A. Mellman,William Lawson,Dennis S. Charney +12 more
TL;DR: In a high-risk sample of African American adults exposed to a range of severe traumas, purpose in life emerged as a key factor associated with both resilience and recovery, and mastery was also significantly associated with recovery.
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Sleep and Anxiety Disorders
TL;DR: Investigation of sleep in anxiety disorders provides clues to mechanisms of arousal regulation relevant to insomnia and pathologic anxiety, which contribute to relapse of these conditions.
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Trial of Prazosin for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Military Veterans
Murray A. Raskind,Elaine R Peskind,Bruce K. Chow,Crystal L. Harris,Anne Davis-Karim,Hollie A Holmes,Kimberly L Hart,Miles McFall,Thomas A. Mellman,Christopher Reist,Jennifer M. Romesser,Robert A. Rosenheck,Mei-Chiung Shih,Murray B. Stein,Robert M. Swift,Theresa Gleason,Ying Lu,Grant D. Huang +17 more
TL;DR: Prazosin did not alleviate distressing dreams or improve sleep quality in military veterans who had chronic PTSD, and there were no significant differences in these measures at 26 weeks of the trial.
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Trauma exposure, posttraumatic stress disorder and depression in an African-American primary care population
Tanya N. Alim,Elaine Graves,Thomas A. Mellman,Notalelomwan Aigbogun,Ekwenzi Gray,William Lawson,Dennis S. Charney +6 more
TL;DR: The findings suggest the importance of screening African Americans for PTSD, in addition to depression, in the primary care setting, as well as rates of MDE comorbid with PTSD, comparable to other studies.