Gomes, Ana Allen
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Name
Gomes, Ana Allen
Variants
Gomes, Ana Cardoso Allen
Gomes, Ana A.
Gomes, Ana A.
Main Affiliation
Unidade de I&D
Email
a.allen.gomes@fpce.uc.pt
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Status
UC Researcher
Biography
Ana Allen Gomes, a licensed psychologist specialising in Clinical and Health Psychology, is currently an Associate Professor (2016-present) at the Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education of the Univ. of Coimbra (FPCEUC), and holds a PhD with a thesis on sleep, academic achievement and well-being in undergraduates (Univ. of Aveiro), a Master Degree in Cognitive-Behavioural Clinical Psychology (FPCE-UC), and had developed clinical competencies in sleep disorders at the sleep consultation of the psychiatric clinic of the University Hospital of Coimbra (1996-2002). Currently at the FPCEUC, and member of the Research Unit CINEICC - Centre Center for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Behavioral Intervention, she conducts sleep-related research and teaches courses on psychopathology, cognitive-behavioural therapies, and psychological interventions on sleep disorders. She was previously a Teaching Assistant (1999-2005) and Assistant Professor at the Univ. of Aveiro (2006-20016), where she directed the undergraduate degree in psychology, created a Sleep Psychology Consultation for students, and started the laboratory unit Sleep and ChronoLab. Board member of the Portuguese Sleep Society: 2011-2013, and 2018-2021. She has been principal researcher twice, and regularly a team member, in competitively funded research projects, and supervised master's degree and PhD dissertations. The main current research interests include morningness-eveningness; normal and disturbed sleep from a psychological perspective; CBT for insomnia and other sleep disorders; and sleep psychology. She has published more than 70 articles in international journals with impact factor. Received 10 awards/prizes(s). She has interacted with more than 8 dozen authors/coauthors of scientific works. In Ciência Vitae CV, the most frequent words associated with her scientific production are sleep; cognitive-behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I); inter- and intra-individual differences in sleep patterns; chronotype; morningness; diurnal type; sleep health. Psicóloga Clínica Especialista pela Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses, Professora Associada da Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra (FPCE-UC), leciona presentemente disciplinas sobre intervenções psicológicas nas perturbações do sono, psicopatologia e terapias e modelos cognitivo-comportamentais, sendo ainda investigadora integrada da Unidade de I&D CINEICC ¿ Centro de Investigação em Neuropsicologia e Intervenção Cognitivo-Comportamental. Foi diretora da licenciatura em Psicologia (2009 a 2014) da Universidade de Aveiro, onde foi responsável pela criação da Consulta de Psicologia de Sono da UA e iniciou a unidade Sleep & Chrono Lab (estudo dos aspetos rítmicos do comportamento), pertencente ao PsyLab. Tem apresentado e publicado em revistas internacionais dezenas de trabalhos científicos relacionados com o sono e os ritmos psicobiológicos. Tem pertencido a unidades de I&D financiadas pela FCT, integrado equipas de vários projetos de investigação sobre temas associados ao sono ou aos ritmos psicobiológicos e coordena presentemente o seu segundo projeto financiado pela FCT enquanto investigadora responsável, para além da orientação de dissertações de mestrado e de bolseiros de doutoramento em temas de sono/matutinidade-vespertinidade, alguns dos quais em ligação com o Centro de Medicina do Sono do CHUC. Desenvolveu competências clínicas em perturbações de sono na Consulta de Sono do Serviço de Psiquiatria dos Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra (1996-2002). Pertence pela segunda vez à direção da Associação Portuguesa do Sono (2011-2013; 2019-atual) e é membro da Sociedade Europeia de Investigação do Sono e da Sociedade Mundial do Sono. É licenciada e mestre em Psicologia pela Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra e doutorada pela UA, com uma tese sobre sono, sucesso académico e bem-estar psicológico em estudantes universitários.
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1 | Jun-2022 | Do larks and owls feel better at their optimal time of day? An exploratory study in primary school children. (Poster presentation. World Sleep 2022, Rome). | Pires, Luís; Almeida, Filipa; Bettencourt, Catarina; Almeida, Rita; Marques, Daniel R.; Pinto de Azevedo, M.H.; Leitão, José A.; Allen Gomes, Ana | conferenceObject | openAccess |
2 | 2022 | Do Larks and owls feel better at their optimal times of day? An exploratory study in primary school children | Pires, L.; Almeida, F. G. ; Bettencourt, C.; Almeida, R. ; Marques, D.R.; Pinto de Azevedo, M.H.; Leitão, J. A. ; Gomes, Ana Cardoso Allen | contributionToPeriodical | openAccess |
3 | 2020 | Emotional states in adolescents: time of day X chronotype effects while controlling for psychopathological symptoms and sleep variables | Bettencourt, Catarina Carreiro ; Tomé, Beatriz; Pires, Luís; Leitão, José Augusto Simões Gonçalves ; Gomes, Ana Cardoso Allen | article | openAccess |
4 | Jun-2022 | Evening screen time, sleep and diurnal type in preschool and primary school children. (Oral presentation. World Sleep 2022, Rome) | Marques, Inês; Pires, Luís; Bettencourt, Catarina; Gomes, Filipa Almeida; Almeida, Rita; Marques, Daniel Ruivo; Allen Gomes, Ana | conferenceObject | openAccess |
5 | Jun-2022 | Is optimal always optimal? Chronotype, time-of-day, and children’s cognitive performance in remote neuropsychological assessment. (Poster presentation. World Sleep 2022, Rome) | Bettencourt, Catarina; Pires, Luís; Almeida, Filipa; Vilar, Manuela; Cruz, Hugo; Leitão, José Augusto; Allen Gomes, Ana | conferenceObject | openAccess |
6 | 31-May-2022 | Momentary emotional states in primary school children: combined effects of chronotype X time-of-day | Almeida, Filipa; Pires, Luís; Bettencourt, Catarina Carreiro ; Almeida, Rita; Ruivo Marques, Daniel; Leitão, José; Gomes, Ana Cardoso Allen | article | openAccess |
7 | 2023 | Psychometric Properties of the Sleep Locus of Control (SLOC) Scale in a Portuguese Sample | Vieira, Patrícia; Silva, Jéssica; Gomes, Ana Allen ; Vincent, Norah; de Azevedo, Maria Helena Pinto de ; Marques, Daniel Ruivo | article | openAccess |
8 | Mar-2022 | Sleep versus school timings of preschool and school-age children. (Oral presentation. World Sleep 2022) | Clara, Maria Inês; Gomes, Ana Allen | conferenceObject | openAccess |
9 | 2021 | The influence of time-of-day and morningness-eveningness in cognitive performance of children and adolescents: Clarifying synchrony and asynchrony effects. | Bettencourt, Catarina ; Leitão, José Augusto Simões Gonçalves ; Vilar, Manuela ; Allen Gomes, Ana | contributionToPeriodical | openAccess |
10 | Sep-2020 | Time of day and chronotype effects on children’s intellectual capacity. Poster presentation (virtual). European Sleep Research Society Congress 2020 – Virtual, 22-25 September 2020. | Pires, Luís; Couto, Diana; Cruz, Hugo Miguel Fernandes; Bettencourt, Catarina; Leitão, José Augusto; Azevedo, Maria Helena P.; Marques, Daniel Ruivo; Gomes, Ana Cardoso Allen | article | embargoedAccess |
11 | Sep-2020 | Time of day X chronotype effects on adolescent’s emotional states. Poster presentation (virtual). European Sleep Research Society Congress 2020 – Virtual, 22-25 September 2020. | Bettencourt, Catarina; Pires, Luis; Clara, Maria Inês; Tomé, Beatriz; Leitão, José Augusto; Cruz, Hugo M. F.; Silva, Carlos Fernandes; Azevedo, M.H.P; Marques, Daniel Ruivo; Allen Gomes, Ana | conferenceObject | openAccess |