 Ruth
Reinsel is an experimental psychologist currently doing medical research in New
York City. She specializes in psychophysiology, using the tools of EEG, evoked
potentials, behavioral performance tests and multivariate statistical analysis
to study memory. Her involvement in parapsychology dates from 1977, when she
began graduate studies at the City College of New York under the supervision of
Dr. Gertrude Schmeidler. She trained for many years in sleep and dream research
and received her Ph.D. in Psychology in 1988 from the City University of New
York for research on cerebral laterality during sleep. Her dissertation research
included a nocturnal PK task which was reported in Research in Parapsychology
1987. Dr. Reinsel is currently director of The
NeuroPsience
Laboratory, which studies the relation between brain and psi functionin,.
Dr. Reinsel is a member of the following professional societies:
American Clinical Neurophysiology Society
American Psychological Society
Cognitive Neuroscience Society
New York Academy of Sciences
Organization for Human Brain Mapping
Society for Psychophysiological Research
Selected Publications
Wollman, M. and Reinsel, R. (1981). Possible cases of spontaneous ESP in the
sleep laboratory. Parapsychology Review, 12 (3), 9-10.
Reinsel, R.
and Wollman, M. (1982). A clairvoyance procedure using the semantic
differential. In: W. G. Roll, R. L. Morris and R. A. White (Eds.), Research
in Parapsychology 1981 (pp. 166-167). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press.
(abstract)
Reinsel, R.
(1982). Parapsychology: An empirical science. In: P. Grim (Ed.),
Philosophy of science and the occult (pp. 151-168). Albany, NY: State
University of New York Press. Reprinted in 2nd ed., 1990, pp. 187-201.
Reinsel, R.
(1988). PK performance as a function of prior stage of sleep and time of
night. In: D. H. Weiner and R. L. Morris, (Eds.), Research in Parapsychology
1987 (pp. 65-69). Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.
Reinsel R.,
Antrobus, J. (1992). Lateralized task performance after awakening from sleep.
In J. Antrobus and M. Bertini, Eds., The Neuropsychology of Sleep and
Dreaming (pp. 63-85). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assocs.
Reinsel R.,
Antrobus, J., and Wollman, M. (1992). Bizarreness in dreams and waking
fantasy. In J. Antrobus and M. Bertini, Eds., The Neuropsychology of Sleep
and Dreaming (pp. 157-184). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assocs.
Reinsel, R.
(1994). Parapsychology: An empirical science. In: B. Slife, (Ed.) Taking
Sides: Clashing views on controversial psychological issues (8th ed., pp.
362-371). Guilford, CT: Dushkin Publishing Group. (Reprinted from
Philosophy of science and the occult (2nd ed., pp. 187-201). Albany, NY:
State University of New York Press, 1990.)
Antrobus, J.,
Kondo, T., Reinsel, R., and Fein, G. (1995). Dreaming in the late morning:
Summation of REM and diurnal cortical activation. Consciousness and Cognition,
4, 275-299.
Maher, M. C.,
Vartanian, I. A., Chernigovskaya, T. and Reinsel, R. (1996). A physiological
concomitant of the laying-on of hands: Changes in healers' tactile
sensitivity. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research,
90 (2), 77-96.
Reinsel, R.
(2003). Dissociation and mental health in mediums and sensitives: A pilot
survey. In S. Wilson (Ed.), Proceedings of the Parapsychological Association,
46th Annual conference (pp. 200-221). Vancouver, Canada: Aug. 2-4,
2003.
Reinsel, R.
(2004). Physical mediumship, macro-PK and the autonomic nervous system
(abstract). In S. Schmidt (Ed.), Proceedings of the Parapsychological
Association, 47th Annual Conference (pp. ). Vienna, Austria:
Aug. 5-8, 2004. We thanks the Parapsychological Association Board (www.parapsych.org) for the permission to publish the above material.
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