Dorothy Bruck

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Source:Victoria University

Dorothy Bruck, BA (Hons) (Uni Tas), PhD (La Trobe), MAPS, is an Emeritus Professor at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. Her academic interests include sleep/wake behaviour, mental health, chronic fatigue, arousal thresholds, human behaviour in emergencies and the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse communities. She is a founding Director of the Sleep Health Foundation, Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia.[1]

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  • 1990 - PhD, La Trobe University (Thesis: Dietary intake and sleepiness after glucose in narcolepsy)[2]

Books[edit | edit source]

  • 2017, Chapter 31 - Sleep, Cognitive and Mood Symptoms in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, in The Handbook of Stress and Health: A Guide to Research and Practice[3]

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  1. https://www.vu.edu.au/contact-us/dorothy-bruck
  2. http://vc-research.kums.ac.ir/kums_content/media/image/2010/09/8032_orig.pdf
  3. Wallis, A., Jackson, M. L., Ball, M., Lewis,D. P. and Bruck,D. (2017) Sleep, Cognitive and Mood Symptoms in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, in The Handbook of Stress and Health: A Guide to Research and Practice (eds C. L. Cooper and J. C. Quick), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781118993811.ch31
  4. Bruck, Dorothy; Jackson, Melinda L. (December 15, 2012). "Sleep Abnormalities in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: A Review". Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. 08 (06): 719–728. doi:10.5664/jcsm.2276. ISSN 1550-9389. PMC 3501671. PMID 23243408.
  5. Jackson, ML; Butt, Henry; Ball, Michelle; Lewis, Donald; Bruck, Dorothy (November 2015), "Sleep quality and the treatment of intestinal microbiota imbalance in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A pilot study.", Sleep Science, 8 (3): 124-33, doi:10.1016/j.slsci.2015.10.001, PMID 26779319
  6. Wallis, Amy; Butt, Henry; Ball, Michelle; Lewis, Donald; Bruck, Dorothy (January 13, 2016), "Support for the Microgenderome: Associations in a Human Clinical Population", Scientific Reports, 6: 19171, doi:10.1038/srep19171, PMID 26757840
  7. Wallis, Amy; Ball, Michelle; McKechnie, Sandra; Butt, Henry L; Lewis, Donald P; Bruck, Dorothy (2017), "Examining clinical similarities between myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and d-lactic acidosis: a systematic review", Journal of Translational Medicine (15): 129, doi:10.1186/s12967-017-1229-1
  8. Wallis, Amy; Ball, Michelle; Butt, Henry L; Lewis, Donald P; McKechnie, Sandra; Paull, Phillip; Jaa-Kwee, Amber; Bruck, Dorothy (2018), "Open-label pilot for treatment targeting gut dysbiosis in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: neuropsychological symptoms and sex comparisons", Journal of Translational Medicine, 16 (1): 24, doi:10.1186/s12967-018-1392-z