
- Associate Professor; Clinical Program & Director of the Clinical Ph.D. Program
P: 662-325-1222
Program:
Clinical Psychology
Research:
Sleep, Suicide, Aging
Lab:
The Sleep, Suicide, and Aging Lab
School:
Ph.D. West Virginia University 2012
Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Bio
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
*Titus, C.E., *Speed, K.J., *Cartwright, P.M., Drapeau, C.W., **Heo, Y., & Nadorff, M.R. (2018). What role do nightmares play in suicide? A Brief Exploration. Current Opinion in Psychology, 22, 59-62.
Nadorff, M.R., Drapeau, C. W., & Pigeon, W.R. (2018). Psychiatric illness and sleep in older adults: comorbidity and opportunities for intervention. Sleep Medicine Clinics, 13(1), 81-91.
Berman, M.E., Fanning, J.R., Guillot, C.R., Marsic, A., Bullock, J., Nadorff, M.R., & McCloskey, M.S. (2017). Effects of alcohol dose on deliberate self-harm in men and women. Journal of Clinical and Consulting Psychology, 85(9), 854-861.
Drapeau, C.W., Nadorff, M.R., McCall, W.M., *Titus, C.E., *Barclay, N., **Payne, A. (2019). Screening for suicide risk in adult sleep patients. Sleep Medicine Reviews, 46, 17-26.
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)
*Speed, K.J., Drapeau, C.W., Nadorff, M.R. (2018). Differentiating single and multiple suicide attempters: What nightmares can tell us that other predictors cannot. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 14(5), 829-834
*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.
Nadorff, M.R., Nazem, S., & Fiske, A. (2011). Insomnia symptoms, nightmares and suicidal ideation in a college sample. SLEEP, 34(1), 93-98.
Full list of publications can be found here: https://suicidelab.com/publications/
Current Grant Funding
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