Michael R. Nadorff

Education

• B.A., Psychology and Computer Applications, University of Notre Dame, 2007
• M.A., Clinical Psychology, West Virginia University, 2009
• Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, West Virginia University, 2012
• Doctoral Internship, Baylor College of Medicine, 2012

Professional Licenses

• Mississippi license #54 942

Research Interests

• Etiology, assessment, and treatment of suicidal behavior
• Behavioral sleep medicine (particularly assessment and interventions for insomnia and nightmare disorders)
• Clinical geropsychology
• The use of technology for psychological treatment

Representative Recent Publications

*Bolstad, C. J., Porter B., Brown, C. J., Kennedy, R. E. & Nadorff, M. R. (In Press). The relation between pet ownership, anxiety, and depressive symptoms in late life: Propensity score matched analyses.  Anthrozoös.

*Bolstad, C.J., *Szkody, E., & Nadorff, M.R. (In Press).  Factor analysis and validation of the Disturbing Dreams and Nightmares Severity Index. Dreaming

Ellis, T.E., Rufino, K.A., & Nadorff, M.R. (2019). Treatment of nightmares in psychiatric inpatients with Imagery Rehearsal Therapy: An open trial and case series. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 17(2)

* Fränkl, E.C., Scarpelli, S., Nadorff, M.R., Bjorvatn, B., Bolstad, C., Chan, N.Y., Chung, F., Dauvilliers, D., Espie, C.A., Inoue, Y., Leger, D., Macêdo, T., Matsui, K., Merikanto, I., Morin, C.M., Mota-Rolim, S., Partinen, M., Penzel, T., Plazzi, G., Sieminski, M., Wing, Y.K., De Gennaro, L., & Holzinger, B. (In Press).  How our dreams changed during the COVID-19 pandemic: effects and correlates of dream recall frequency during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multinational study on 19,355 adults.  Nature and Science of Sleep.

McCall, W.V., Porter, B., *Pate, A.R., *Bolstad, C.J., Drapeau, C.W., Krystal, A.D., Benca, R.M., Rumble, M.E., Nadorff, M.R. (In Press).  Examining Suicide Assessment Measures for Research Use: Using Item Response Theory to Optimize Psychometric Assessment for Research on Suicidal Ideation in Major Depressive Disorder.  Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior.

Nadorff, M.R., Nazem, S., & Fiske, A. (2011). Insomnia symptoms, nightmares and suicidal ideation in a college sample. SLEEP, 34(1), 93-98.

*Simmons, Z., Burlingame, G., Korbanka, J., Eastman, K., Thomas, D., Christensen, J., Jenson, M., Nadorff, M.R., & Kay, D.B. (In Press).  Insomnia symptom severity is associated with increased suicidality and prospective death by suicide in a psychiatric sample.  SLEEP.

*Webb, C.A., *Cui, R., *Titus, C., Fiske, A., & Nadorff, M.R. (2018). Sleep Disturbance, Activities of Daily Living, and Depressive Symptoms among Older Adults. Clinical Gerontologist, 41(2), 172-180.

Worley, C.B., *Bolstad, C.J., and Nadorff, M.R. (In Press).  Epidemiology of disturbing dreams in a diverse U.S. sample.  Sleep Medicine.

Full list of publications can be found here: https://suicidelab.com/publications/

Current Grant Funding

2021 – 2026 Mental Health Awareness Training grant
Funding Agency: SAMHSA
Grant Title: Extending the Mental Health Network of Mississippi Through Mental Health Awareness Training
Total costs: $624,995
Role: PI

2020 – 2021 Mississippi Governor’s Emergency Education Response (GEER) Grant
Funding Agency: State of Mississippi
Grant Title: Improving Mississippi Mental Healthcare Through Telehealth
Total costs: $217,906
Role: PI

2020 – 2021 Mississippi Governor’s Emergency Education Response (GEER) Grant
Funding Agency: State of Mississippi
Grant Title: Mental Health Gatekeeper Trainings
Total costs: $174,411
Role: Co-I (PI: Dr. Mary Nelson Robertson)

2020 – 2022 Rural Opioids Technical Assistance Grant
Funding agency: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Grant title: PReventing Opioid Misuse In the SouthEast: PROMISE Initiative 3.0
Total costs: 1,098,846
Role: Co-PI (PI: Dr. David Buys)

2019 - 2024 Garrett Lee Smith State Suicide Prevention Grant (subcontract from MS Dept. of Mental Health)
Funding Agency: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Grant title: Innovative MSU Cares - Preventing and Responding to Mississippi Youth Suicide
Total Costs: $1,678,552
Role: Co-PI (with Dr. Emily Stafford also as Co-PI)

2019 – 2024 Drug Free Communities Grant
Funding Agency: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Grant title: Drug Free Starkville Collaboration
Total Costs: $624,385
Role: PI

2020 - 2022 Garrett Lee Smith State Suicide Prevention Grant
Funding Agency: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Grant title: It Takes A Community: A Comprehensive, Collaborative Suicide Prevention Program
Total Costs: $305,965
Role: PI

Past Grant Funding

2017 - 2020 R15 AREA Grant (Competitive Renewal); National Institutes of Health (NIMH)
Number: R15 MH101573-02
Topic: Reward Devaluation, Positive Valence Systems Disturbance, and Impairment
Total Costs: $417,379
Role: Co-Investigator (PI: Dr. Sam Winer)

2014 - 2017 R15 AREA Grant; National Institutes of Health (NIMH)
Number: 1R15MH101573
Topic: Subchance Perception of Positive Information, Psychopathology, and Impaired Functioning
Total Costs: $416,388
Role: Co-Investigator

2013 - 2016 Garrett Lee Smith Campus Suicide Prevention Grant
Funding Agency: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Grant title: Making Suicide a Never Event at MSU
Total Costs: $304,073
Role: Primary Investigator