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Candice Alfano

TitleAssociate Professor
InstitutionUniversity of Houston
DepartmentPsychology
Address4800 Calhoun Rd
Houston TX 77004
Phone713-743-8611
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    K23MH081188     (ALFANO, CANDICE A)Feb 1, 2009 - Nov 30, 2014
    NIH/NIMH
    Mechanisms of Sleep Disturbance in Children with Generalized Anxiety Disorder
    Role: Principal Investigator
    R43HD075548     (SPITALNICK, JOSH S.)Jun 1, 2013 - Aug 31, 2014
    NIH/NICHD
    Ready, Set, Snooz! A web-delivered, prescriptive intervention for pediatric sleep
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    R21MH099351     (ALFANO, CANDICE A)Apr 1, 2014 - Mar 31, 2016
    NIH/NIMH
    Sleep, Emotional Processing, and Risk for Affective Disorders in Childhood
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. Barrios CS, Jay SY, Smith VC, Alfano CA, Dougherty LR. Stability and Predictive Validity of the Parent-Child Sleep Interactions Scale: A Longitudinal Study Among Preschoolers. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2017 Aug 17; 1-15. PMID: 28816508.
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    2. Kauffman BY, Farris SG, Alfano CA, Zvolensky MJ. Emotion dysregulation explains the relation between insomnia symptoms and negative reinforcement smoking cognitions among daily smokers. Addict Behav. 2017 Sep; 72:33-40. PMID: 28359971.
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    3. Reddy R, Palmer CA, Jackson C, Farris SG, Alfano CA. Impact of sleep restriction versus idealized sleep on emotional experience, reactivity and regulation in healthy adolescents. J Sleep Res. 2017 Aug; 26(4):516-525. PMID: 27976447.
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    4. Cowie J, Clementi MA, Alfano CA. Examination of the Intolerance of Uncertainty Construct in Youth With Generalized Anxiety Disorder. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2016 Sep 21; 1-9. PMID: 27654145.
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    5. Palmer CA, Alfano CA. Sleep Architecture Relates to Daytime Affect and Somatic Complaints in Clinically Anxious but Not Healthy Children. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2017 Mar-Apr; 46(2):175-187. PMID: 27610927.
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    6. Cowie J, Palmer CA, Hussain H, Alfano CA. Parental Involvement in Infant Sleep Routines Predicts Differential Sleep Patterns in Children With and Without Anxiety Disorders. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2016 Aug; 47(4):636-46. PMID: 26493392.
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    7. Reynolds KC, Alfano CA. Childhood Bedtime Problems Predict Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms Through Emotional Reactivity. J Pediatr Psychol. 2016 Oct; 41(9):971-82. PMID: 27017989.
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    8. Fillo J, Alfano CA, Paulus DJ, Smits JA, Davis ML, Rosenfield D, Marcus BH, Church TS, Powers MB, Otto MW, Baird SO, Zvolensky MJ. Emotion dysregulation explains relations between sleep disturbance and smoking quit-related cognition and behavior. Addict Behav. 2016 Jun; 57:6-12. PMID: 26827153; PMCID: PMC4775359 [Available on 06/01/17].
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    9. Palmer CA, Alfano CA. Sleep and emotion regulation: An organizing, integrative review. Sleep Med Rev. 2017 Feb; 31:6-16. PMID: 26899742.
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    10. Alfano CA, Lau S, Balderas J, Bunnell BE, Beidel DC. The impact of military deployment on children: Placing developmental risk in context. Clin Psychol Rev. 2016 Feb; 43:17-29. PMID: 26655960.
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    11. McMakin DL, Alfano CA. Sleep and anxiety in late childhood and early adolescence. Curr Opin Psychiatry. 2015 Nov; 28(6):483-9. PMID: 26382163; PMCID: PMC4670558 [Available on 11/01/16].
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    12. Alfano CA, Patriquin MA, De Los Reyes A. Subjective - Objective Sleep Comparisons and Discrepancies Among Clinically-Anxious and Healthy Children. J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2015 Oct; 43(7):1343-53. PMID: 25896729.
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    13. Reynolds KC, Alfano CA. Things that Go Bump in the Night: Frequency and Predictors of Nightmares in Anxious and Nonanxious Children. Behav Sleep Med. 2016 Jul-Aug; 14(4):442-56. PMID: 26406387.
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    14. Reynolds KC, Gradisar M, Alfano CA. Sleep in Children and Adolescents with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Sleep Med Clin. 2015 Jun; 10(2):133-41. PMID: 26055861.
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    15. Beidel DC, Alfano CA, Kofler MJ, Rao PA, Scharfstein L, Wong Sarver N. The impact of social skills training for social anxiety disorder: a randomized controlled trial. J Anxiety Disord. 2014 Dec; 28(8):908-18. PMID: 25445081; PMCID: PMC4254620.
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    16. Smith VC, Leppert KA, Alfano CA, Dougherty LR. Construct validity of the parent-child sleep interactions scale (PSIS): associations with parenting, family stress, and maternal and child psychopathology. Sleep Med. 2014 Aug; 15(8):942-51. PMID: 24947880.
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    17. Patriquin MA, Mellman TA, Glaze DG, Alfano CA. Polysomnographic sleep characteristics of generally-anxious and healthy children assessed in the home environment. J Affect Disord. 2014 Jun; 161:79-83. PMID: 24751311; PMCID: PMC4405028.
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    18. Alfano CA, Smith VC, Reynolds KC, Reddy R, Dougherty LR. The Parent-Child Sleep Interactions Scale (PSIS) for preschoolers: factor structure and initial psychometric properties. J Clin Sleep Med. 2013 Nov 15; 9(11):1153-60. PMID: 24235896; PMCID: PMC3805800.
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    19. Clementi MA, Alfano CA. Targeted Behavioral Therapy for childhood generalized anxiety disorder: a time-series analysis of changes in anxiety and sleep. J Anxiety Disord. 2014 Mar; 28(2):215-22. PMID: 24289931.
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    20. Alfano CA, Reynolds K, Scott N, Dahl RE, Mellman TA. Polysomnographic sleep patterns of non-depressed, non-medicated children with generalized anxiety disorder. J Affect Disord. 2013 May; 147(1-3):379-84. PMID: 23026127; PMCID: PMC3985749.
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    21. Alfano CA. Are children with "pure" generalized anxiety disorder impaired? A comparison with comorbid and healthy children. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2012; 41(6):739-45. PMID: 22963176; PMCID: PMC4405032.
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    22. Scharfstein L, Alfano C, Beidel D, Wong N. Children with generalized anxiety disorder do not have peer problems, just fewer friends. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2011 Dec; 42(6):712-23. PMID: 21739298; PMCID: PMC3213291.
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    23. Brown TH, Mellman TA, Alfano CA, Weems CF. Sleep fears, sleep disturbance, and PTSD symptoms in minority youth exposed to Hurricane Katrina. J Trauma Stress. 2011 Oct; 24(5):575-80. PMID: 21898601.
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    24. Alfano CA, Kim KL. Objective sleep patterns and severity of symptoms in pediatric obsessive compulsive disorder: a pilot investigation. J Anxiety Disord. 2011 Aug; 25(6):835-9. PMID: 21570250; PMCID: PMC3109106.
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    25. De Los Reyes A, Alfano CA, Beidel DC. Are clinicians' assessments of improvements in children's functioning "global"? J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2011; 40(2):281-94. PMID: 21391024; PMCID: PMC3087705.
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    26. Beidel DC, Rao PA, Scharfstein L, Wong N, Alfano CA. Social skills and social phobia: an investigation of DSM-IV subtypes. Behav Res Ther. 2010 Oct; 48(10):992-1001. PMID: 20637452; PMCID: PMC2930084.
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    27. De Los Reyes A, Alfano CA, Beidel DC. The relations among measurements of informant discrepancies within a multisite trial of treatments for childhood social phobia. J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2010 Apr; 38(3):395-404. PMID: 20013046.
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    28. Alfano CA, Gamble AL. The Role of Sleep in Childhood Psychiatric Disorders. Child Youth Care Forum. 2009 Dec 01; 38(6):327-340. PMID: 19960111.
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    29. Alfano CA, Pina AA, Villalta IK, Beidel DC, Ammerman RT, Crosby LE. Mediators and moderators of outcome in the behavioral treatment of childhood social phobia. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2009 Sep; 48(9):945-53. PMID: 19625981; PMCID: PMC2737677.
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    30. Alfano CA, Pina AA, Zerr AA, Villalta IK. Pre-sleep arousal and sleep problems of anxiety-disordered youth. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2010 Apr; 41(2):156-67. PMID: 19680805; PMCID: PMC2818382.
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    31. Alfano CA, Zakem AH, Costa NM, Taylor LK, Weems CF. Sleep problems and their relation to cognitive factors, anxiety, and depressive symptoms in children and adolescents. Depress Anxiety. 2009; 26(6):503-12. PMID: 19067319.
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    32. Alfano CA, Beidel DC, Turner SM. Negative self-imagery among adolescents with social phobia: a test of an adult model of the disorder. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2008 Apr; 37(2):327-36. PMID: 18470770.
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    33. Alfano CA, Ginsburg GS, Kingery JN. Sleep-related problems among children and adolescents with anxiety disorders. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2007 Feb; 46(2):224-32. PMID: 17242626.
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    34. Alfano CA, Beidel DC, Turner SM, Lewin DS. Preliminary evidence for sleep complaints among children referred for anxiety. Sleep Med. 2006 Sep; 7(6):467-73. PMID: 16931154.
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    35. Alfano CA, Beidel DC, Turner SM. Cognitive correlates of social phobia among children and adolescents. J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2006 Apr; 34(2):189-201. PMID: 16514553.
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    36. Alfano CA, Beidel DC, Turner SM. Cognition in childhood anxiety: conceptual, methodological, and developmental issues. Clin Psychol Rev. 2002 Nov; 22(8):1209-38. PMID: 12436811.
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    37. Pina AA, Silverman WK, Alfano CA, Saavedra LM. Diagnostic efficiency of symptoms in the diagnosis of DSM-IV: generalized anxiety disorder in youth. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2002 Oct; 43(7):959-67. PMID: 12405483.
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    38. Beidel DC, Ferrell C, Alfano CA, Yeganeh R. The treatment of childhood social anxiety disorder. Psychiatr Clin North Am. 2001 Dec; 24(4):831-46. PMID: 11723636.
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    39. Mallory JB, Alfano C, McMacken R. Host virus interactions in the initiation of bacteriophage lambda DNA replication. Recruitment of Escherichia coli DnaB helicase by lambda P replication protein. J Biol Chem. 1990 Aug 05; 265(22):13297-307. PMID: 2165499.
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    40. Alfano C, McMacken R. Ordered assembly of nucleoprotein structures at the bacteriophage lambda replication origin during the initiation of DNA replication. J Biol Chem. 1989 Jun 25; 264(18):10699-708. PMID: 2525129.
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    41. Alfano C, McMacken R. Heat shock protein-mediated disassembly of nucleoprotein structures is required for the initiation of bacteriophage lambda DNA replication. J Biol Chem. 1989 Jun 25; 264(18):10709-18. PMID: 2543679.
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    42. Mensa-Wilmot K, Seaby R, Alfano C, Wold MC, Gomes B, McMacken R. Reconstitution of a nine-protein system that initiates bacteriophage lambda DNA replication. J Biol Chem. 1989 Feb 15; 264(5):2853-61. PMID: 2536726.
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    43. Alfano C, McMacken R. The role of template superhelicity in the initiation of bacteriophage lambda DNA replication. Nucleic Acids Res. 1988 Oct 25; 16(20):9611-30. PMID: 2847118; PMCID: PMC338767.
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