Research Professor
Sleep and Performance Research Center,
WSU Spokane
E-Mail: hvd@wsu.edu
Phone: (509) 358-7755
Fax: (509) 358-7810
412 E. Spokane Falls Blvd.
P.O. Box 1495
Spokane, WA 99210-1495
My research focuses on the effects of sleep and sleep deprivation on
neurobehavioral functions. I conduct experiments with human volunteers
staying in the laboratory for multiple days (up to 2 weeks). These
studies provides insight into the interactions of time awake versus time
asleep (i.e., sleep homeostasis), circadian rhythms, and other
regulatory mechanisms affecting waking neurobehavioral performance. I am
particularly interested in inter-individual differences in sleep
architecture and in the cognitive responses to sleep loss, having
demonstrated that these inter-individual differences constitute
neurobiological traits. In addition, I am engaged in mathematical and
statistical modeling of the temporal changes in performance across
extended periods of wakefulness. Many students are actively involved in
conducting the experiments and analyzing the data underlying this
research.
Biographical Information
Research Professor, Sleep and Performance Research Center,
Washington State University Spokane, Summer 2009-present.
Associate Research Professor, Sleep and Performance Research Center,
Washington State University Spokane, October 2005-Summer 2009.
Research Associate Professor of Sleep and Chronobiology, Department of
Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, July 2004-September 2005.
Research Assistant Professor of Sleep and Chronobiology, Department of
Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, July 1999-June 2004.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychiatry, University of
Pennsylvania, June 1998-June 1999.
Ph.D. degree in Chronobiology and Sleep, 1998, Leiden University, The
Netherlands.
M.S. degree in Astrophysics, 1993, Leiden University, The Netherlands
WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center. Pictured (l-r) are Drs.
David Rector, Hans Van Dongen, Gregory Belenky, and (sitting) James
Krueger.
Selected Recent Publications
Van Dongen HPA, Caldwell Jr JA, Caldwell JL.
Investigating systematic individual differences in sleep-deprived
performance on a high-fidelity flight simulator. Behavior Research
Methods 2006; 38(2): 333-343.
Van Dongen HPA. Shift work and inter-individual
differences in sleep and sleepiness. Chronobiology International 2006;
23(6): 1139-1147.
Van Dongen HPA, Vitellaro KM, Dinges DF. Individual
differences in adult human sleep and wakefulness: Leitmotif for a
research agenda. Sleep 2005; 28(4): 479-496.
Van Dongen HPA, Olofsen E, Dinges DF, Maislin G.
Mixed-model regression analysis and dealing with interindividual
differences. Methods in Enzymology 2004; 384: 139-171.
Van Dongen HPA, Baynard MD, Maislin G, Dinges DF.
Systematic interindividual differences in neurobehavioral impairment
from sleep loss: Evidence of trait-like differential vulnerability.
Sleep 2004; 27(3): 423-433.
Van Dongen HPA. Comparison of mathematical model
predictions to experimental data of fatigue and performance. Aviation,
Space, and Environmental Medicine 2004; 75(3): A15-A36.
Van Dongen HPA, Rogers NL, Dinges DF. Sleep debt:
Theoretical and empirical issues. Sleep and Biological Rhythm 2003; 1:
5-13.
Van Dongen HPA, Maislin G, Mullington JM, Dinges DF.
The cumulative cost of additional wakefulness: Dose-response effects on
neurobehavioral functions and sleep physiology from chronic sleep
restriction and total sleep deprivation. Sleep 2003; 26(2): 117-126.
Van Dongen HPA, Dinges DF. Investigating the
interaction between the homeostatic and circadian processes of
sleep-wake regulation for the prediction of waking neurobehavioural
performance. Journal of Sleep Research 2003; 12(3): 181-187.
PubMed Publications (Note: PubMed search may produce additional "VanDongen"
authors.)
