De Koninck, Joseph
Current positions:
Full Professor, School of Psychology, University of OttawaBiographical data:
Joseph De Koninck holds a Master’s in Psychology from Laval University and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Manitoba (1973). He has been a professor of Psychology at the University of Ottawa since 1972. The focus of his research is the study of sleep and dreams. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, and was its Honorary President in 1996-97. He was President of the Canadian Sleep Society (CSS) from 1999 to 2002 and Past-President from 2002 to 2005. In 2002, he was recipient of the Prix Adrien Pinard of the Société Québécoise pour la recherche en Psychologie.Current teaching:His administrative positions have included that of Director of the School of Psychology and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences from 1978 to 1987 and again in 1993 and 1994. He was Vice-Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research between 1987 and 1990, and Dean of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies from July 1994 through 2004. During the later period, he has served as Vice-President (1996), President (1997) and Past President (1998-1999) of the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies (CAGS) and as Chair of the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies (2001-2002). He is currently a member of the Canada Research Chairs College of Reviewers (2001-).
1. Undergraduate: PSY 4327-4727: Sleep and dreams-Sommeil et rêvesLaboratory and research funding:
2. Graduate: PSY 6903 Seminars in Psychology: Sleep Research
Since 1972, Professor De Koninck has directed a two-bedroom sleep research laboratory (currently located in room 424, Montpetit Hall) where the research related to the master’s and doctoral theses listed below was conducted. Research funding has been obtained mainly by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) since 1973.Research on dreams has been and currently is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Research contracts have also been obtained, notably from the Ministry of Defense.Research Interests:
Graduate Thesis supervision:
- Normal sleep: The psychobiology of sleep; learning, memory and sleep; sleep deprivation and frontal lobe functions; biological rhythms and sleep; mechanisms of Slow Wave Sleep (SWS); sleep positions.
- Sleep disorders: Psychological treatment of insomnia, sleep distribution and architecture in narcolepsy.
- Dreaming: Sources of dreams, dreaming and psychological adaptation; dream content, personality and social roles, nightmares.
Francois Prévost M.A. 1974 Effets de l’inversion du champ visuel sur le sommeil paradoxal consécutif; Ph.D. 1976 Les effets de l’inversion du champ visuel sur le sommeil paradoxal et le contenu des rêvesSample publications:
Michelle Sirois-Berliss M.A. 1976 Culture et Rêve : Une analyse interculturelle de rêves canadiens-anglais et canadiens-français ; Ph.D. 1980 L’effet du stress ressenti pendant les phases pré-menstruelle et menstruelle sur le contenu des rêves
Keith Busby M.A. 1977 The Effects of Transcendental Meditation on Dream Content
Guy Proulx M.A. 1977 The Effects of Intensive Learning of a Second Language on REM Sleep and Dream Content
Raymond Brunette Ph.D. 1978 The Effects of Presleep Suggestions on Dream Affect
Hélène Samson M.A. 1979 Le mécanisme de complémentarité dans le rêve
Serge Lallier M.A. 1984 Positions du sommeil chez les enfants normaux et hyperactifs
Pierre Gagnon Ph.D. 1982 Le cycle du sommeil dans des conditions de sommeil prolongé chez le jeune adulte
Marcel Viens Ph.D. 1989 Generalized Anxiety and Sleep-Onset Insomnia: Evaluation of Treatment Using Anxiety Management Training
Dominique Lorrain Ph.D. 1989 Le développement de l’activité posturale du sommeil chez l’humain
Lise Mercier Ph.D. 1992 Sleep Patterns and Eye Movement Density During REM Sleep in Reading Disabled Children
Gilles Hébert Ph.D. 1994 L’activité interhémisphérique en sommeil paradoxal durant l’apprentissage intensif d’une langue seconde
Gregory Christ Ph.D. 1994 EEG Slow Wave and Slow Wave Activity in Extended Sleep with Bright Light Induced Phase Shifts of Core Body Temperature
Jean Grenier Ph.D. (1999) Les références temporelles du contenu manifeste des rêves des personnes âgées
Francine Roussy Ph.D. (1999) Waking ideation and Dream Content
Mélanie St-Onge Ph.D. (2003) Évaluation d’un traitement cognitivo-comportemental des cauchemars pour les enfants
Anik Gosselin Ph.D. (2006) Effets de la privation de sommeil sur des fonctions cognitives et leurs concomitants électrophysiologiques
Lynne Lamarche Ph.D. (In progress) Napping in Women with Premenstrual Syndrome: Effects on Symptoms and Subsequent Sleeping Patterns
Catherine Sabourin (En cours) Étude des rêves durant la grossesse et relations avec la dépression post-partum.
Book Chapters:
- De Koninck, J. (2003). Mental activities during sleep. In M. Billiard (Éd.), Sleep: Physiology, Investigations, and Medicine (pp. 113-123). New York: Plenum.
- De Koninck, J. (2000). Waking Experiences and Dreaming. In M. Kryger, T. Roth, & W. C. Dement (Eds.),Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine (pp. 502-509). Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders.
- De Koninck, J. (1998). Activité mentale et sommeil. In M. Billiard (Éd.),Le sommeil normal et pathologique (pp. 67-76). Paris : Masson.
Refereed Journals:
- Gosselin, A., De Koninck, J., & Campbell, K. (2005). Total sleep deprivation and novelty processing: implications for frontal lobe functioning. Clinical Neurophysiology, 116(1), 211-222.
- Grenier, J., Cappeliez, P., St-Onge, M., Vachon, J., Vinette, S., Roussy, F., Mercier, P., Lortie-Lussier, M., & De Koninck, J. (2005). Temporal references in dreams and autobiographical memory. Memory and Cognition, 33 (2), 280-288.
- Forest, G., Roussy Layton, F., & De Koninck, J. (2005). Polysomnographie, chronobiologie et approche cognitive dans le traitement de la dépression majeure. Psychologie canadienne/ Canadian Psychology, 46,3, 139-152.
- St-Onge, M., Mercier, P., Lortie-Lussier, M., Grenier, J., & De Koninck, J. (2005). Emotions in the diary and REM dreams of young and late adulthood women and their relation to life satisfaction. Dreaming, 15, 2, 116-128.
- Viens, M., De Koninck, J., Mercier, P., St-Onge, M., & Lorrain, D. (2003). Trait Anxiety and Sleep-Onset Insomnia: Evaluation of Treatment Using Anxiety Management Training. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 54, 31-37.
- Delorme, M.-A., Lortie-Lussier, M., & De Koninck, J. (2002). Stress and coping in the waking and dreaming states during an examination period. Dreaming, 12, 4, 171-183.
- Lorrain, D., & De Koninck, J. (1998). Sleep positions and sleep stages: Evidence of their independence. Sleep, 21, 3, 335-340.
- Christ, G., De Koninck, J., Hébert, M., Carrier, J., Lamarche, C., & Dufour, S. (1996). Body temperature and the return of slow wave activity in extended sleep. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 98, 42-50.
- De Koninck, J. (1995). Intensive learning, REM sleep and REM sleep mentation. Sleep Research Society Bulletin, 1, 2, 39-40.
- De Koninck, J., Lorrain, D., Christ, G., Proulx, G. & Coulombe, D. (1989). Intensive language learning and increases in REM sleep: Evidence of a performance factor. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 8, 43-47.
Refereed abstracts:
- De Koninck, J., Grenier, J., Castonguay, M., Forest, G., Gosselin, A., & Swingle, P. (2002). Self regulation of body temperature and sleep onset latency. 6th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society. Journal of Sleep Research, 11(1), 49.