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Last published 2026
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Harrison Dickens

Doctoral Student

Also affiliated: University of Mississippi Medical Center (2020–2024)

6 h-index 22 pubs 86 cited

  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Adult
  • Young Adult
  • Chronic Pain
  • Aftercare
  • Adolescent
  • Middle Aged
  • Black or African American
  • Pain Threshold
  • Anemia, Sickle Cell
  • Analgesics, Opioid
  • Child
  • Pain

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Harrison Dickens, a doctoral student at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, investigates the complex interplay of social determinants and health outcomes. His research focuses on racial, gender, and neighborhood-level disparities in pediatric trauma care, examining how factors like race, insurance status, and geographic location influence opioid prescriptions, postdischarge referrals, and mortality. Dickens also studies the impact of adversity and discrimination on pain perception, particularly temporal summation of pain in African-American adults and adolescents with sickle cell disease. His work further explores the biopsychosocial pathways of interventions like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia and its antidepressant effects. Dickens collaborates with faculty including Jamie Walker and Veronica Floyd, and has an h-index of 6 with 21 publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 6
  • Publications: 22
  • Citations: 86

Positions

  • Doctoral Student 2022–present
    University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Department of Psychological Science ORCID

Selected Publications

  • 0139 Do Cognitive-Affective Processes Moderate the Relationship Between Sleep Reactivity and Depressive Symptoms? (2026)
    SLEEP DOI OpenAlex
  • 0422 Recent or Lifetime Stressor Exposure? Associations With Insomnia Symptom Severity (2026)
    SLEEP DOI OpenAlex
  • From Better Sleep to Improved Mood: A Review of the Biopsychosocial Pathways for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia’s Antidepressant Effects (2026)
    Current Sleep Medicine Reports 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • The effects of cannabidiol on sleep disturbances within a sample of high trait worriers: A double-blind, randomized placebo controlled trial. (2026)
    Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology DOI OpenAlex
  • Estimating Public Knowledge About Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) and Alternative Treatments (2026)
    Behavioral Sleep Medicine 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis stress response to a laboratory-based 10 % CO2 challenge in healthy adults (2025)
    Psychoneuroendocrinology DOI OpenAlex
  • The relation between sleep and pain sensitization in pediatric sickle cell disease (2025)
    Journal of Pediatric Psychology DOI OpenAlex
  • 0518 Blunted Cortisol Stress Reactivity to the Trier Social Stress Test Among Individuals with Greater Insomnia Symptoms (2025)
    SLEEP DOI OpenAlex
  • 0385 Gender and Race Disparities in Sleep Disorder Diagnosis and Treatment (2025)
    SLEEP DOI OpenAlex
  • Temporal summation of pain in sickle cell disease: comparison of adolescents and young adults with chronic vs. infrequent pain (2024)
    Journal of Pediatric Psychology 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • 0422 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia: The First Line Treatment for Insomnia Remains Elusive (2024)
    SLEEP 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • 0383 Common Pathways Between Distress and Impairment Related to Insomnia, Pain, and Stress (2024)
    SLEEP DOI OpenAlex
  • Adversity type and timing predict temporal summation of pain in African-American adults (2023)
    Journal of Behavioral Medicine 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • 0640 Depression Symptom Outcomes After a Self-Guided Mobile Application CBT-I Intervention Among College Students (2023)
    SLEEP DOI OpenAlex
  • 0651 Sleep Reactivity as a Vulnerability Factor for Depressive Symptoms (2023)
    SLEEP DOI OpenAlex

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47 Collaborators 13 Institutions 1 Country

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