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Dimsdale, Joel E.

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Joel Dimsdale was born in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1947, and obtained his BA degree in biology from Carleton College. He then attended Stanford University, where he obtained an MA degree in Sociology and an MD degree. He obtained his psychiatric training at Massachusetts General Hospital and then completed a fellowship in psychobiology at the New England Regional Primate Center. He was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School from 1976 until 1985, when he moved to University of California, San Diego (UCSD) (Fig. 1).

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  • Bardwell, W., Moore, P., Ancoli-Israel, S., & Dimsdale, J. (2003). Fatigue in obstructive sleep apnea is driven by depressive symptoms and not apnea severity. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 160, 350–355.

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  • Dimsdale, J. E. (1974). Coping behavior of Nazi concentration camp survivors. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 131, 792–797.

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  • Dimsdale, J. (1988). A perspective on type A behavior and coronary disease. The New England Journal of Medicine, 318, 110–112.

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  • Dimsdale, J. (2000). Stalked by the past: The impact of ethnicity on health. Psychosomatic Medicine, 62, 161–170.

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  • Dimsdale, J. (2008). Psychological stress and cardiovascular disease. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 51, 1237–1246.

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  • Dimsdale, J. (2016). Anatomy of malice: The enigma of the Nazi war criminals. New Haven: Yale University Press.

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  • Dimsdale, J., & Creed, F. (2009). The proposed diagnosis of somatic symptom disorders in DSM-V to replace somatoform disorders in DSM-IV – a preliminary report. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 66(6), 473–476.

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  • Dimsdale, J. E., & Moss, J. (1980). Plasma catecholamines in stress and exercise. Journal of the American Medical Association, 243, 340–342.

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  • Dimsdale, J. E., Hartley, L. H., Guiney, T., Ruskin, J., & Greenblatt, D. (1984). Post-exercise peril: Plasma catecholamines and exercise. Journal of the American Medical Association, 251, 630–632.

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  • Dimsdale, J., Newton, R., & Joist, T. (1989). Neuropsychological side effects of beta blockers. Archives of Internal Medicine, 149, 514–525.

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  • Golomb, B. A., Criqui, M. H., White, H. L., & Dimsdale, J. E. (2004). Conceptual foundations of the UCSD statin study: A randomized controlled trial assessing the impact of statins on cognition, behavior, and biochemistry. Archives of Internal Medicine, 164, 153–162.

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  • Mills, P., Dimsdale, J., Coy, T., Ancoli-Israel, S., Clausen, J., & Nelesen, R. (1995). Beta-two adrenergic receptor characteristics in sleep apnea patients. Sleep, 18, 39–42.

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  • von Kanel, R., Loredo, J., Ancoli-Israel, S., Mills, P., Natarajan, L., & Dimsdale, J. (2007). Association between polysomnographic measures of disrupted sleep and prothrombotic factors. Chest, 131, 733–739.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0804, USA

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  1. University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA

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  2. Campbell University School of Pharmacy, Buies Creek, North Carolina, USA

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Dimsdale, J.E. (2016). Dimsdale, Joel E.. In: Gellman, M., Turner, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6439-6_798-2

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