Grace Marie Seymour | University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences

Grace Marie Seymour

Doctoral Student, Clinical Psychology

Contact Information

grace.seymour@uky.edu

111-J Kastle Hall

Education

B.S., Psychology, University of Michigan, 2021
B.S., Neuroscience, University of Michigan, 2021

Research Interests

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Sleep Health
Substance Use Disorders
Individual and community-level socioeconomic risk factors
Mental Health Disparities

Affiliations

Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Office for Policy Studies on Violence Against Women

Curriculum Vitae (CV)
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Graduate Training

Mentor: Dr. Christal Badour

Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

Tipsword JM, Jones AC, Quinkert E, Seymour GM, & Badour CL. (under review). Disgust, trauma, & PTSD. In D. McKay & B. Olatunji (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of disgust: Assessment, clinical manifestations, and treatment.

Kalmbach DA, Reffi AN, Ong JC, Cheng P, Walch O, Pitts DS, Seymour GM, Hirata M, Roth A, Roth T, & Drake CL. (2024). Preliminary evidence of psychological improvements and increased maternal-fetal attachment associated with a mindfulness sleep program: secondary analysis of uncontrolled data in 11 pregnant women with DSM-5 insomnia disorder. Journal of Sleep Research.

Kalmbach DA, Cheng P, Reffi AN, Ong JC, Swanson LM, Espie CA, Seymour GM, Hirata M, Walch O, Pitts DS, Roth T, & Drake CL. (2023). Reducing cognitive arousal and sleep effort alleviates insomnia and depression in pregnant women with DSM-5 insomnia disorder treated with a mindfulness sleep program. Sleep Advances.

Kalmbach DA, Cheng P, Reffi AN, Ong JC, Swanson LM, Fresco DM, Walch O, Seymour GM, Fellman-Couture C, Bayoneto AD, Roth T & Drake CL (2023). Perinatal Understanding of Mindful Awareness for Sleep (PUMAS): A single-arm proof-of-concept clinical trial of a mindfulness-based intervention for DSM-5 insomnia disorder during pregnancy. Sleep Medicine.

Kalmbach DA, Cheng P, Reffi AN, Seymour GM, Ruprich MK, Bazan LF, Pitts DS, Walch O & Drake CL. (2022). Racial disparities in treatment engagement and outcomes in digital cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia among pregnant women. Sleep Health, S2352-7218(22)00206-6. Advance online publication. doi:10.1016/j.sleh.2022.10.010

Kalmbach DA, Cheng P, Ahmedani B, Reffi AN, Peterson EL, Sagong C, Seymour GM, Ruprich MK, & Drake CL. (2022). Cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia prevents and alleviates suicidal ideation: Insomnia remission is a suicidolytic mechanism. SLEEP, zsac251. doi:10.1093/sleep/zsac251

Reffi AN, Kalmbach DA, Cheng P, Jovanovic T, Norrholm SD, Sexton MB, Mahr G, Arnett L, Seymour GM & Drake CL. (2022). Sleep Reactivity as a potential pathway from childhood abuse to adult insomnia. Sleep Medicine, 94, 70-75. doi:10.1016/j.sleep.2022.03.026