GRADUATE STUDENT
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
COGNITION, BRAIN & BEHAVIOR

LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
BA IN PSYCHOLOGY AND HEALTH, MEDICINE & SOCIETY, MINOR IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE, 2019

EMAIL: EMILYSTEKL@G.HARVARD.EDU

RESEARCH

I am interested in maladaptive emotional memories and leveraging memory reconsolidation to dampen threat responses and subjective negative feelings related to these memories. I am also interested in memory reactivation during sleep and the role of REM sleep and frontal theta activity in aversive memory strengthening and conscious re-experiencing during sleep and wake.

PUBLICATIONS

Doty, T. J., Stekl, E. K., Bohn, M., Klosterman, G., Simonelli, G., & Collen, J. (2023). A 2022 Survey of Commercially Available Smartphone Apps for Sleep: Most Enhance Sleep. Sleep Medicine Clinics, 18(3), 373–384. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsmc.2023.05.008

Chaisilprungraung, T., Stekl, E. K., Thomas, C. L., Blanchard, M. E., Hughes, J. D., Balkin, T. J., & Doty, T. J. (2022). Quantifying the effects of sleep loss: relative effect sizes of the psychomotor vigilance test, multiple sleep latency test, and maintenance of wakefulness test. Sleep advances, 3(1), zpac034. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleepadvances/zpac034

Stekl, E. K., & Collen, J. F. (2022). No time to waste! Acute sleep interventions after trauma. Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 18(9), 2091–2092. https://doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.10204

Alger, S. E., Stekl, E., Allotey-Addo, S., Klosterman, G., & Balkin, T. J. (2021). The role of pharmacological interventions for sleep deprivation and restriction. Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822963-7.00009-8

PRESENTATIONS

Stekl, E. K., Klosterman, G., Simonelli, G., Collen, J. F., & Doty, T. J. (2022, Sept 12-15). Sleep Enhancement Technology in 2021: A Survey of Apps. Talk presented at Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS), Kissimmee, FL.

Chaisilprungraung, T., Allotey-Addo, S. C., Stekl, E. K., Pirner, M., Denby, A., Flick, T., Klosterman, G., Garriques, V., Chanatry, C. E., Thomas, C. L., Balkin, T. J., Hughes, J. D., & Doty, T. J. (2022, June 13). Differential Utility of Psychomotor Vigilance Test vs. Sleep Latency Tests in Healthy Humans. Poster presented at Johns Hopkins Sleep & Circadian Research Day, Baltimore, MD.

Stekl, E., Klosterman, G., Simonelli, G., Collen, J. F., & Doty, T. J. (2022, June 4-8). Smartphone Sleep Enhancement in 2021!. Poster presented at APSS SLEEP 2022 Meeting, Charlotte, NC.