Péter Dániel Simor Print E-mail

CURRICULUM VITAE

Address: Hungary, Budapest, 1073 Erzsébet krt. 40-42 II.em/12a
Tel.: (+3630) 2755968
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Place/date of birth: Budapest, 1982

EDUCATION:

2009 -
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Cognitive Science Department – PhD student
2001 - 2007
Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogy
Faculty: Psychology
Departments: Cognitive and Health Psychology
1996 - 2001
Károlyi Mihály Hungarian-Spanish bilingual high-school (Budapest), graduation

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:

2007 –
Psychologist at the Nyirő Gyula Hospital, Department of Addictology and Detoxification Center
2007 - 2008
Neuropsychological practice at the National Institute of Medical Rehabilitation, Department of Brain and Craneum Injuries
2006 –
Member of the Implicit Laboratory Association (www.implab.org)

RESEARCH INTEREST:

  • Neurocognitive aspects of sleep and dreaming
  • Dreaming and Emotional Regulation
  • Sleep and dream disorders in Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Quantitative EEG analysis
  • The interplay between affective and cognitive systems in the sleeping brain
  • Sleep and memory

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY:

Selected Publications

2011

  • Csóka, Sz., Simor, P., Szabo, G., Kopp, M. S., Bódizs, R. Early maternal separation, nightmares and bad dreams: results from the Hungarostudy Epidemiological Panel. Attachment and Human Development, 13, 2, 125-140.
  • Simor, P., Köteles, F., Sándor, P., Petke, Zs., Bódizs, R. Mindfulness and dream quality: the inverse relationship between mindfulness and negative dream affect Scandinavian Journal of Psychology (In Press)

2009

2008

Participation in Conferences

2010

  • Simor, P., Csóka Sz., Bódizs, R.
    Nightmares and Bad Dreams in Borderline Personality Disorder: Fantasy as a Coping Skill? 
    20th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society, Lisbon, Portugal, 14-18 sept, 2010.
  • Simor, P., Pajkossy, P., Bódizs, R.
    Neuropsychological characteristics of nightmare sufferers: Preliminary evidence for impaired frontal inhibitory functions.
    15th World Congress of Psychophysiology, 2010, Sept 1-4, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Simor, P., Csóka, Sz., Bódizs, R.:
    Dreaming and Affective Regulation: Preliminary Findings and a Neurocognitive Framework,
    Ducog 2010; Perception and Learning; The second conference of the Central European Cognitive Science Association, 2010, May 6-9, Dubrovnik.

2009

  • Funk, S., Molnár, B., Vajda, P., Olasz, A., Bányai, É., László, K., Simor, P.:
    A mysterious material: the putty – or: Why is it so difficult to give up using drugs? Our therapeutic experiences of the treatment of drug addicts.
    Consciousness, Reality and Identity, The 15th Conference of the Hungarian Psychiatric Association, 2009. jan. 28-31, Debrecen.

2007

  • Simor, P.:
    Let’s sleep on it: Is the Sleeping Brain Creative?
    The Role of Intuition in Decision-making and Economics, The Annual Workshop of The Implicit Laboratory Association. 30 of June 2007, Budapest.

2006

  • Gyarmathy, É., Kálmos, É., Király, I., Lénárd, É., Magyar, V., Milák, P., Ratkóczi, É., Simor, P., Vízkelety, T.:
    The cooperation between individual and group therapists in the treatment of borderline personality disorder.
    Cooperation: fantasy, desire, reality, the second conference of the journal Psychotherapy, May 12-13, 2006, Budapest.

2005

  • Milák, P., Király, I., Mangel, B., Simor, P.:
    Dialectic Behaviour Therapy (DBT): group therapeutic method for the treatment of patients with borderline syndrome.
    The first conference of the Journal Psychotherapy, May 2005, Budapest.
  • Mervó, B., Unoka, Zs., Milák, P., Simor, P., Rózsa, S.:
    The role of the early maladaptive schemes in the different psychopatologies.
    The XII. Jubilee Reunion of The Hungarian Association of Psychiatry, Jan.26-29 2005, Budapest.
  • Ujpál, Zs., Mangel, B., Fogd, D., Simor, P., Milák, P., Unoka, Zs.:
    The hungarian experiencies with the Shedler - Westen diagnostic method SWAP),
    The XII. Jubilee Reunion of The Hungarian Association of Psychiatry, Jan.26-29 2005, Budapest.

Accredited Courses

  • Good Clinical Practice (ICH-GCP),
    Semmelweis Medical University, Institute of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy. Budapest, 7-8 of March, 2007.
  • Electroencephalography for psychiatrists and psychologists,
    organized by the The Hungarian Society of Psychophysiology and Health-Psychology, The Institute of Behavioiral Sciences of the Semelweis Medical University and the Insomnia Workgroup of the Hungarian Psychiatric Society. Budapest, 3 of October 2007.


    • Awards

    2009

  • Dreaming style and cognitive performance: sleep and emotional information processing from a neuropsychological and quantitative EEG perspective. The 2009 Research Grant Award of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and The Dreamscience Foundation.

    • 2007

  • Emotional Regulation in Dreaming, Nightmares and Bad dreams in Borderline Personality Disorder
    - IASD Student Award of the International Association for the Study of Dreams.

    • 2005

  • The paradox of REM sleep, chaos or organization
    - Scientific student grant of the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogy

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

  • Hungarian - native
  • English - Intermediate (Hungarian Intermediate State Examination)
  • Spanish - Advanced (Hungarian Advanced State examination)