Elaine Boland, B.A.

E-mail: elaine.boland@temple.edu

Bio: Elaine is currently in her second year of graduate studies. She received her B.A. in communication from the State University of New York at New Paltz and majored in professional writing at Carnegie Mellon University. She completed a post-baccalaureate program in psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. Elaine’s current research interests involve circadian rhythm abnormalities, social rhythm disruptions and life events and how they contribute to the onset and course of bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder.  

Representative presentations and/or publications:

Soreca, I., Boland, E., Fagiolini A. (2008).  Psychiatric Consequences of Metabolic Disruption in Mood Disorders.  In R. S. McIntyre & J. Z. Konarski (Eds). Psychiatric and Metabolic Disorders: Research Synthesis and Clinical Translation. New York: Nova Science Publishers Inc.

Frank, E., Swartz, H.A., Boland, E. (2007).  Interpersonal and social rhythm therapy: An intervention addressing rhythm dysregulation in bipolar disorder.  Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 9, 325-332.

Frank, E., Boland, E., Novick, D.M., Bizzari, J.V., Rucci, P. (2007).  Association between illicit drug and alcohol use and first manic episode. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior, 86, 395-400.