Stephen F Smagula, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Epidemiology
Contact Details
3811 O'Hara St.
Pittsburgh
PA
15213
Education & Training
PhD
University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health Epidemiology
MS
Columbia University, Graduate School of Education, Health & Psychology Neuroscience and Education
University of Pittsburgh School of MedicineSleep Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of MedicineLate-Life Mood Disorders Research
Research Interests
Rest-activity rhythms and health; Brain aging and mental health; Accelerometer-guided interventions
Selected Research Publications & Products- Smagula SF, Beach S, Rosso AL, Newman AB, Schulz R. (in press). Brain structural markers and caregiving characteristics as interacting correlates of caregiving strain. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
- Smagula SF, Krafty RT, Taylor BJ, Martire LM, Schulz R, & Hall MH. (in press). Rest-activity rhythm and sleep characteristics associated with depression symptom severity in strained dementia caregivers. Journal of Sleep Research.
- Smagula SF, Stone KL, Fabio A, Cauley JA. (2016). Risk factors for sleep disturbances in older adults: evidence from prospective studies. Sleep Medicine Reviews, 25:21-30. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.smrv.2015.01.003.
- Smagula SF, Ancoli-Israel S, Blackwell T, Boudreau R, Stefanick M, Paudel M, Stone KL, Cauley JA. (2015). Circadian rest-activity rhythms predict future increases in depressive symptoms among community-dwelling older men. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 23(5): 495-505. doi: 10.1016/j.jagp.2014.06.007.
- Smagula SF, Butters MA, Anderson SJ, Lenze EK, Dew MA, Mulsant, BH, Lotrich FE, Aizenstein H, Reynolds CF. (2015). Antidepressant response trajectories and associated clinical prognostic factors in late-life depression. JAMA Psychiatry, 72(10):1021-1028. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry .2015.1324.
Education Interests
Aging epidemiology; Sleep-wake rhythm research; Statistical and causal inference