Professor, Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin Medical School
Psychiatry
Dr. Ruth M. Benca, MD
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Ruth Benca is an expert in the field of Psychiatry. She researched medicine at University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is ranked 10 in research and 19 in primary care medicine She received 1 awards: "Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification". Dr. Ruth M. Benca is also published. She has 89 publications published. The lastest publication: "Metabolic rate in the right amygdala predicts negative affect in depressed patients.' She accepts Medicare payments and is registered with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Effects of oral temazepam on slow waves during non-rapid eye movement sleep in healthy young adults: A high-density EEG investigation.
- Effects of partial sleep deprivation on slow waves during non-rapid eye movement sleep: A high density EEG investigation.
- Circadian Disruption in Psychiatric Disorders.
- A multi-site randomized clinical trial to reduce suicidal ideation in suicidal adult outpatients with Major Depressive Disorder: Development of a methodology to enhanc...
- Sleep and Plasticity in Schizophrenia.
- Suvorexant in Patients with Insomnia: Results from Two 3-Month Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials.
- Psychometric Performance and Responsiveness of the Functional Outcomes of Sleep Questionnaire and Sleep Apnea Quality of Life Instrument in a Randomized Trial: The Hom...
- Safety and efficacy of suvorexant during 1-year treatment of insomnia with subsequent abrupt treatment discontinuation: a phase 3 randomised, double-blind, placebo-con...
- Upregulation of Gene Expression in Reward-Modulatory Striatal Opioid Systems by Sleep Loss.
- Altered overnight modulation of spontaneous waking EEG reflects altered sleep homeostasis in major depressive Disorder: A high-density EEG investigation.
- Performance of an automated polysomnography scoring system versus computer-assisted manual scoring.
- Topographic and sex-related differences in sleep spindles in major depressive Disorder: A high-density EEG investigation.
- Is the Relationship between Race and Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Adherence Mediated by Sleep Duration?
- Overnight changes in waking auditory evoked potential amplitude reflect altered sleep homeostasis in Major depression.
- Antidepressant effects of selective slow wave sleep deprivation in Major depression: a high-density EEG investigation.
- Race and residential socioeconomics as predictors of CPAP adherence.
- Insomnia nature, diagnosis, and treatment.
- Thalamic dysfunction in schizophrenia suggested by whole-night deficits in slow and fast spindles.
- REM sleep deprivation produces a motivational deficit for food reward that is reversed by intra-accumbens amphetamine in rats.
- Seasonal influences on sleep and executive function in the migratory White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii).
- An introduction to the clinical correlates of disrupted slow-wave sleep.
- Prospective associations of insomnia markers and symptoms with depression.
- Narcolepsy: clinical features, co-morbidities & treatment.
- Biological rhythms, higher brain function, and behavior: Gaps, opportunities, and challenges.
- Ten putative contributors to the obesity epidemic.
- Sleep deprivation in pigeons and rats using motion detection.
- Sleep-dependent improvement in visuomotor learning: a causal role for slow waves.
- Insomnia and depression.
- Changes in brain gene expression during migration in the white-crowned sparrow.
- Homeostatic regulation of sleep in the white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii).
- Molecular correlates of sleep and wakefulness in the brain of the white-crowned sparrow.
- Sleep deprivation in the pigeon using the Disk-Over-Water method.
- Light-dependent retinal innervation of the rat superior colliculus.
- Narcolepsy and excessive daytime sleepiness: diagnostic considerations, epidemiology, and comorbidities.
- Retinal projections to the subcortical visual system in congenic albino and pigmented rats.
- Sleep in mood Disorders.
- Putative contributors to the secular increase in obesity: exploring the roads less traveled.
- Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging measures of neural activity to positive social stimuli in pre- and post-treatment depression.
- Effects of sleep deprivation on wound healing.
- The effect of REM sleep deprivation on motivation for food reward.
- Acute effects of light and darkness on sleep in the pigeon (Columba livia).
- Diagnosis and treatment of chronic insomnia: a review.
- Sleep responses to light and dark are shaped by early experience.
- Insomnia in primary care: panel discussion.
- Insomnia in special populations: effects of aging, menopause, chronic pain, and depression.
- Behavioral and pharmacologic management options for insomnia.
- Migratory sleeplessness in the white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii).
- REM sleep deprivation induces changes in coping responses that are not reversed by amphetamine.
- Regulation of sleep and arousal: introduction to part VII.
- Comparison of hypocretin/orexin and melanin-concentrating hormone neurons and axonal projections in the embryonic and postnatal rat brain.
- Panel discussion: changing how we think about insomnia.
- Functional but not structural subgenual prefrontal cortex abnormalities in melancholia.
- Special considerations in insomnia diagnosis and management: depressed, elderly, and chronic pain populations.
- Brain electrical tomography in depression: the importance of symptom severity, anxiety, and melancholic features.
- Fos immunoreactivity in rat subcortical visual shell in response to illuminance changes.
- Age-associated changes in the serotonergic system in rat superior colliculus and pretectum.
- Sleep and behavior problems in school-aged children.
- Anterior cingulate activity as a predictor of degree of treatment response in Major depression: evidence from brain electrical tomography analysis.
- Consequences of insomnia and its therapies.
- Effects of amygdala lesions on sleep in rhesus monkeys.
- Modeling daily and subdaily cycles in rat sleep data.
- The pretectum mediates rapid eye movement sleep regulation by light.
- EEG alpha power and alpha power asymmetry in sleep and wakefulness.
- Thalamic metabolic rate predicts EEG alpha power in healthy control subjects but not in depressed patients.
- REM sleep in response to light and dark in congenic albino and pigmented F344 rats.
- Metabolic rate in the right amygdala predicts negative affect in depressed patients.
- Effects of lighting conditions on sleep and wakefulness in albino Lewis and pigmented Brown Norway rats.
- The superior colliculus-pretectum mediates the direct effects of light on sleep.
- Sleep and host defenses: a review.
- Sleep and mood Disorders.
- Analysis of the retinohypothalamic tract in congenic albino and pigmented rats.
- Effects of drugs on sleep.
- Sleep in psychiatric Disorders.
- Increased basal REM sleep but no difference in dark induction or light suppression of REM sleep in flinders rats with cholinergic supersensitivity.
- Failure to induce rapid eye movement sleep by dark pulses in pigmented inbred rat strains.
- Differences in the retinohypothalamic tract in albino Lewis versus brown Norway rat strains.
- Sleep and psychiatric Disorders. A meta-analysis.
- Heritability of dark pulse triggering of paradoxical sleep in rats.
- Rat strain differences in response to dark pulse triggering of paradoxical sleep.
- Sleep deprivation in the rat: VII. Immune function.
- Social phobia, MVP, and response to imipramine.
- Functional studies of pluripotential hemopoietic stem cells in mouse brain.
- Studies on phosphorylcholine-specific T cell idiotypes and idiotype-specific immunity.
- Two distinct synchronization processes in the transition to sleep: a high-density electroencephalographic study.
- Associations of child insomnia, sleep movement, and their persistence with mental health symptoms in childhood and adolescence.
- Experienced Mindfulness Meditators Exhibit Higher Parietal-Occipital EEG Gamma Activity during NREM Sleep.
- Agreement in Computer-Assisted Manual Scoring of Polysomnograms across Sleep Centers.
- Sleep reverts changes in human gray and white matter caused by wake-dependent training.
Schools
University Of ChicagoThe Pritzker School Of Medicine
University Of Chicago Hosps
Conditions Treated
- Bipolar Disorder
- Major Depressive Disorder
Doctors Specialties
- Sleep Medicine
- Psychiatry
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
Education
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University of Chicago -
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Hospital
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Meriter UnityPoint Health -
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1932175940 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | BENCA | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | RUTH | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 537191176 | |
| NPPES Provider State | WI | |
| Specialty Description | Psychiatry | |
| Total Claim Count | 313.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1932175940 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | BENCA |
| First Name Of The Provider | RUTH |
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