Augustin de la Peña, PhD

PERSONAL DATA
Place of Birth: Brownsville, Texas    Citizenship: U.S.

EDUCATION
1970 Ph.D.   Stanford University
1964 B.A.   University of Texas (Austin)

POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH TRAINING
1971-1972   UCLA Medical Center; Department of Psychiatry

EMPLOYMENT
9/04- Present  Associate Director of the Sleep Program
Pulmonary and Sleep Center of the Valley
Weslaco, Texas

9/03-8/04   Associate Director of Program Development
National Sleep Centers; Austin, Texas

1/99-8/02   Associate Director
Sleep Disorders Center of Central Texas; Austin, Texas

5/97-12/98   Associate Director
Clinical Monitoring Center; Los Gatos, California
Research Associate, Neurotronics, Inc.; Gainesville, FL

8/93-4/97   Director/Associate Director
Sleep Disorders Center, San Jose Medical Center
San Jose, California

10/90-7/93   Director, Insomnia Program; Chief Polysomnographer
Sleep Disorders Center, San Jose Medical Center
San Jose, California

7/89-9/90   Co-Director, Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory
Director, Sleep Disorders Center
Veterans Administration Medical Center
Battle Creek, Michigan

9/86-6/89   Associate Director, Sleep Disorders Center
University of Texas Health Science Center
San Antonio, Texas

1/78-6/89   Chief, Clinical Psychophysiology and Sleep Labs
Audie Murphy Veterans Administration Hospital

1/74-12/77   Associate Chief, Clinical Psychophysiology/Sleep Labs
Audie Murphy Veterans Administration Hospital
San Antonio, Texas

10/74-6/89   Staff Psychologist, Audie Murphy Veterans Hospital
San Antonio, Texas

11/72-9/74   Assistant Research Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry
UCLA Medical School; Los Angeles, California

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
9/01-6/02   Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Texas at Austin

9/83-6/89   Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
University of Texas Medical School; San Antonio, Texas
 

1/74-8/83   Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
University of Texas Medical School; San Antonio, Texas

HONORS AND AWARDS
Undergraduate B.A. cum laude, with Special Honors in Psychology
NSF Undergraduate Research Award
President of Psi Chi (Psychology Honorary Society)
American Citizen of Latin Extraction Scholarship

Graduate Four Years of Research Assistantships, Stanford University
One Year of Teaching Assistantships, Stanford University
NIMH Predoctoral Biological Science Fellowship, Stanford

Postgraduate NIMH Postdoctoral Research Training Fellowship, UCLA
Fellow, American Academy of Sleep Medicine since 1989

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS/MEMBERSHIPS
1993-Present   American Psychological Society
1986-Present   American Academy of Sleep Medicine
1982-1999      Sleep Research Society
1974-Present   American Psychological Association
1971-1989      Society for Psychophysiological Research/ASDA
2000-Present   Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

RESEARCH GRANT REVIEWING
1994   Section on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
NIDR, Washington, D.C.
1975-1989   Minority Biomedical Research Support Program
National Institutes of Health; Bethesda, Maryland
1982-1987   Psychobiology of Affective Disorder
Hogg Foundation of Texas; Austin, Texas
1974-1989   Research Committee Member
Audie Murphy Veterans Hospital; San Antonio, Texas

JOURNAL MANUSCRIPT REVIEWING
1974-1989   Contemporary Psychology, Psychophysiology,
Waking and Sleeping

DISSERTATION RESEARCH SUPERVISION/REVIEW
1974-1989   Supervision of Psychology Resident Doctoral Research
Audie Murphy Veterans Hospital; San Antonio, Texas
Medical Student Research; UTHSC; San Antonio
1994-1995   Outside Reader, Doctoral Dissertation Research
Institute of Transpersonal Psychology; Palo Alto, California

FUNDED RESEARCH GRANTS
 

4/75-12/75 Principal Investigator, Merit Review Start-Up Grant
Psychophysiologic Correlates and Treatments of Insomnia
Veterans Administration Central Office; Washington, D.C.

1/76-12/78 Principal Investigator, Merit Review Grant
Psychophysiologic Correlates and Treatments of Insomnia
Veterans Administration Central Office; Washington, D.C.
 

1/79-12/80 Principal Investigator, Merit Review Continuation Grant
Psychophysiologic Correlates and Treatments of Insomnia Veterans Administration Central Office; Washington, D.C.
 

1/78-12/79 Principal Investigator; Psychophysiology of Mood Disorder
Hogg Foundation of Texas; Austin, Texas
 

9/75-8/78 Co-Investigator, Merit Review Grant
Biofeedback and Relaxation in Treatment of Hypertension
Veterans Administration Central Office; Washington, D.C.
 

9/76-8/78 Co-Investigator, Merit Review Grant
Psychobiology of Normal and Abnormal Grief
Veterans Administration Central Office; Washington, D.C.
 

9/76-8/77 Co-Investigator, Institutional Research Grant
Overnight Secretion of Melatonin
University of Texas Health Science Center (San Antonio)
 

9/78-9/80 Co-Investigator, Merit Review Grant
Human Pineal Function
Veterans Administration Central Office; Washington, D.C.
 

9/81-8/84 Co-Investigator, Biobehavioral Treatments of Hypertension
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health; Washington, D.C.

COURSES/SEMINARS TAUGHT
1966-1967 Introductory Psychology (Teaching Assistant)
Stanford University

1973-1974 Developmental and Sleep Psychophysiology
Seminar for Clinical Psychology/Psychiatry Residents
UCLA Medical School
 

1974-1989 Psychophysiology of Sleep and Arousal Disorders
Behavioral Medicine/Health Psychology Elective
University of Texas Medical School (San Antonio)

CLINICAL LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION
1989-Present  Certified Sleep Specialist
American Board of Sleep Medicine; American Academy of Sleep Medicine

CLINICAL TRAINING PROVIDED
1974-1989   Clinical Polysomnography, Clinical Psychophysiology,
Health Psychology/Behavioral Medicine, Sleep Clinic
For Medical Students; Psychology & Psychiatry Residents
University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio

RESEARCH TRAINING PROVIDED
1974-1989   Psychophysiology Research Methods, Experimental Design
For Medical and Dental Students; Psychology Residents
University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio

PATIENT SERVICE
1974-Present    Evaluation of Sleep Complaints for >3,500 Patients;
Consultation, Nocturnal Polysomnogram Interpretation,
Report Generation, Debrief Patients & Referring Physicians
 

1989-Present  Review of Non-Certified Sleep Specialist Interpretations

ACADEMIC ADVISING/COUNSELING
1974-1989 Counseling Medical School Students About Requisite
Undergraduate/Graduate School Coursework and Research Experience
for Doctoral Training/Degree in Psychology

Numerous Presentations Given to Minority Undergraduate
Students Enrolled at University of Texas at San Antonio

CONSULTING AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
2002-Present Polysomnography Consultant and Research Grant Editor
Neurotronics, Inc.; Gainesville/Waldo, Florida
1995-1996   Co-leader of Special Interest Section on Cognitive Science
American Sleep Disorders Association

MEDIA INTERVIEWS ABOUT BOREDOM-SLEEP-HEALTH
1974-Present    Self (Women’s health magazine)
Being (Japanese science magazine)
Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Cincinnati Enquirer
Esotera (German science/philosophy magazine)
Feeling Great (Women’s health magazine)
New Age Journal, Men’s Health Newsletter
Muscle and Fitness, Chicago Tribune
Adult Continuing Education and Development Newsletter
London Daily Mail, Santa Barbara News Press
Rodale Press (for Books on Various Health Topics)
Prevention (Women’s Health Magazine), Science and Spirit, TV1 (London)

INVITED LECTURES/SYMPOSIA PRESENTATIONS
Representative Presentations (Selected from >100 Presentations given Since 1974)

On Topic of Sleep/Arousal Disorders
Chairman of Symposium Toward a Psychophysiologic Conceptualization of
Insomnia, 17th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Psychophysiological
Study of Sleep, Houston, April 27-May 1, 1977

Toward a Psychophysiologic Conceptualization of Insomnia:
Matching Insomnia Treatment of Individual Sleep Disturbance.
Symposium Presentation at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Advancement of Behavioral Therapy; Los Angeles, November 19, 1982

Normal Sleep, Disorders of Initiating and Maintaining Sleep
Seminar Presentations, American College of Occupational Medicine
Annual Conference on Occupational Health; San Antonio, October 1988

On Topic of Health Psychology and Health Psychophysiology
A Developmental Psychophysiologic Approach to Carcinogenesis
Symposium Presentation, Third International Conference
International Organization of Psychophysiology, Vienna (Austria), July 1986

Automaticity of Attention and Boredom: Role in Carcinogenesis and Aggression
Lectures at Healing Brain Conferences
Cape Cod, August 14-15, 1982; Houston, December 12-13, 1982

The Psychophysiology of Symptoms (Symposium Presentation)
Annual Meeting, Texas Psychological Association; San Antonio, November 1983

Program Chairman, Medical/Health Psychology Section
Annual Meeting, Texas Psychological Association, San Antonio, 11/79

On Topics of Psychophysiology of Drug Dependence; Psychophysiology of Aging
Drug Dependence: A Developmental Psychophysiologic Perspective
Keynote Speaker Presentation
Third National Conference on Addictions and Consciousness
Burlingame (California), October 1988

Age-Associated Disease Expression: A Developmental Psychophysiologic
Perspective, Neurology Grand Rounds, University of Texas Health Science
Center, San Antonio, March 11 and 18, 1982

On Attentional Factors in Health
Psychophysiology of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Symposium Participant)
Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, May 23, New York

Sensory Deprivation, Boredom, and Psychoneuroimmunology
Lecture to Medical Science Division
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Houston, December 1982

Automatization of Sensory Information Processing and the Experience of
Boredom: Some Consequences for Mood, Perception, Behavior, and Health.
Symposium Presentation and Workshop, 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for
General Systems Research, Toronto (Canada), January 1981.

PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters
de la Peña, A. Towards a psychophysiologic conceptualization of insomnia. In Williams, R. L., and Karacan, I. (eds), Sleep Disorders: Diagnosis and Treatment. Wiley, New York, 1978, 101-143.

de la Peña, A. Automatization of sensory information processing: some consequences for perception and behavior. In Gray, W., Fidler, J., Battista, J. (eds), General Systems Theory and the Psychological Sciences. Intersystems Publishers; Seaside, California, 1983, vol. 2, 59-71.

de la Peña, A. Post-traumatic stress disorder: a compensatory information-augmenting response to information underload in the central nervous system? In Van de Kolk, B. (ed), New Perspectives on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. American Psychiatric Press; Washington, D.C., 1984, 108-122.

Books
de la Peña, A. The Psychobiology of Cancer: Automatization and Boredom in Health and Disease. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1983.

Journal Articles (Selected from >20 Journal Publications)
Kopell, B., Zarcone, V., de la Peña, A., et al. Changes in selective attention as measured by the visual averaged evoked potential following REM deprivation in man. EEG and Clinical Neurophysiology 32 (3):322-325, 1972.

de la Peña, A., Zarcone, V., Dement, W. Correlation between measures of the rapid eye movements of wakefulness and sleep. Psychophysiology 10(5): 488-500, 1973.

Ornitz, E.M., Forsythe, A., de la Peña, A. The effect of vestibular and auditory stimulation on the rapid eye movements of REM sleep in autistic children. Archives of General Psychiatry 29:786-791, 1973.

Ornitz, E.M., Forsythe, A.B., Tanguay, P.E.., Ritvo, E.R., de la Peña, A., et al. The recovery cycle of the averaged auditory evoked response during sleep in autistic children.
EEG and Clinical Neurophysiology 37:113-122, 1974.

Holcomb, J.H., Holcomb, H.H., de la Peña, A. Selective attention and eye movements while viewing reversible figures. Perceptual and Motor Skills 44:639-644, 1977.

Zarcone, V., de la Peña, A., Dement, W.C. Heightened sexual interest and sleep disturbance. Perceptual and Motor Skills 44:639-644, 1977.

Vaughn, G.M., de la Peña, A., Allen, J.P., et al. Human plasma melatonin and ACTH levels time-linked with EEG sleep Stages. J Neurol Transm 13:401-402, 1978.

Vaughn, G.M., Allen, J.P., de la Peña, A. Rapid melatonin transients. Waking and Sleeping 3:169-173, 1979.

Fisher, J.G., Garza, G., Flickinger, R., de la Peña, A. An alternative method of recording airflow during sleep. Sleep 2:461-463, 1980.

de la Peña, A. On developing a sleep disorders facility. Texas Psychologist 32:9-11, 1980.

Garza, G., Johnson, J., de la Peña, A. An inexpensive four channel FM-demodulator for use in home environment sleep recording. Waking and Sleeping 4:253-258, 1980.

Fisher, J.G., de la Peña, A. Sleep apnea: a clinical perspective. Southern Medical Journal
74:950-953, 1981.

Wise, M.G., Fisher, J.G., de la Peña, A. Trichloroethane (TCE) in central sleep apnea:
a case study. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health 11:101-104, 1983.

Hatch, J., de la Peña, A., Fisher, J.G. Psychometric differentiation of psychogenic and organic erectile disorders. Journal of Urology 138:781-783, 1987.

Representative Abstracts (Selected from >30 Published Abstracts)
Zarcone, V., Azumi, K., de la Peña, A. Individual differences in response to REM deprivation. Psychophysiology 5, 239, 1969.

de la Peña, A. The psychobiological role of the rapid eye movement dream state.
Dissertation Abstracts International 32(3):1871-B, 1971.

de la Peña, A., Zarcone, V., Dement, W. Effects of REM sleep deprivation on waking perception. Psychophysiology 7(2):300, 1971.

de la Peña, A. Poor sleepers: a descriptive summary of a VA sleep clinic population.
Sleep Research 5:164, 1976.

de la Peña, A. Sleep disorders associated with elevated phasic REM activity. Sleep Research 5:165, 1976.

de la Peña, A., Flickinger, R., Mayfield, D. Some characteristics of the sleep of self-defined poor sleepers. Sleep Research 5:166, 1976.

de la Peña, A. Cholinergic dominance in the etiology of narcolepsy. Sleep Research
6:166, 1977.

de la Peña, A., Flickinger, R., Mayfield, D. Reverse first night effect in chronic poor sleepers. Sleep Research 6:167, 1977.

de la Peña, A., Mayfield, D., Flickinger, R. Waking psychophysiologic and sleep variables in abstinent alcoholics. Sleep Research 7:183, 1978.

Fisher, J. G., de la Peña, A., Mayfield, D. Evolution of methods of measuring respiratory activity. Sleep Research 7:288, 1978.

de la Peña, A., Flickinger, R., Mayfield, D. Elevated phasic REM activity in patients manifesting sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations. Sleep Research 7:218, 1978.

Mayfield, D., de la Peña, A. A set of FORTRAN II programs for detection and quantification of REM activity recorded by standard dual channel technique. Sleep Research 7:292, 1978.

Mayfield, D., de la Peña, A. A FOCAL-12 sleep data base system for sleep clinic work and sleep periodicity research. Psychophysiology 16(6):598, 1979.

de la Peña, A., McDaniel, D., Flickinger, R., et al. Information search eye movements in DOES and DIMS. Sleep Research 11:141, 1982.

de la Peña, A., Reyes, P., et al. Sleep in dementia. Sleep Research 11:85, 1982.

de la Peña, A., Flickinger, R., Flanagan, M. Carcinogenesis and REM activity. Sleep Research 14:231, 1985.

de la Peña, A., Hatch, J.P., McDaniel, C.D., et al. Correlation of waking psychophysiologic parameters with NPT. Sleep Research 14:233, 1985.

Hatch, J.P., de la Peña, A., Fisher, J. Psychometrische differenzierung zwichen psychogenen und organischen erektionsstorungen. Extracta Urologica 12:246, 1989.

Smith, J., de la Peña, A., Hamm, C., Pressman, M. et al. Computer-human scoring sleep stage/event scoring agreement. Sleep Research, 28: 180, 1999.

Miles, L., Pace, T., and de la Peña, A. A new Pressure Sensitivity Profile (PSP) Test for optimization of nasal CPAP treatment and compliance. Sleep Research, 28: 92, 1999.

Book Reviews and Letters to the Editor
de la Peña, A. Varieties of aggressive men. Contemporary Psychology 24:660, 1979.

de la Peña, A. Limits of dualism and reductionism: sleep research at the crossroads. Contemporary Psychology 29:317-318, 1984.

de la Peña, A. Psychophysiologic measures of arousal as an adjunctive source of data in the diagnosis of PTSD. VA Practitioner 3:21, 1986.

Audio Cassette Tapes
Boredom, Brain States, and Cancer (two tapes). Invited by the 1984 Healing Brain Cassette Lecture Series. Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge, Book Service, Dept. T 15, P.O. Box 176, Los Altos (California).

Boredom, Brain States, and Cancer. Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge, 1992 Healing Brain Taperback Series, Dept. T 15, P.O. Box 1062, Cambridge, MA 02238.