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Albany, NY – In today's Academic Minute, Dr. Pamela V. Thacher of St. Lawrence University explains why actively trying to find sleep only increases its illusiveness.
Pamela Thacher is an associate professor of psychology at St. Lawrence University where she teaches courses in abnormal and clinical psychology. From 1995 to 1997, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University and worked at the E.P. Bradley Hospital Sleep and Chronobiology Department. She treated patients in the Sleep and Anxiety Disorders Unit in the hospital's Department of Psychiatry.