Mary Beth Casement
About
Mary Beth Casement, M.D., is a pediatrician based in Carlsbad, California, where she practices at Scripps Coastal Medical Center with an affiliation at Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas. Her clinical focus encompasses general pediatric care from birth through young adulthood, with particular interest in developmental and behavioral pediatrics. She approaches her practice as a collaborative resource for parents, attending to both the physical and emotional health of her patients.
Her published research, appearing in journals such as Sleep, Sleep Health, Psychoneuroendocrinology, and the Journal of Affective Disorders, reflects a sustained focus on adolescent sleep and mental health. Her work includes studies on weekend catch-up sleep and its relationship to depression and internalizing symptoms in adolescents, biomarker profiles of sleep disturbance and depression in young adults, the role of daylight access in schools on circadian function, and neighborhood social vulnerability as a factor in racial disparities in insomnia severity. She has also contributed to research on childhood maltreatment and suicide risk in mood disorders. Her body of published work spans more than 50 peer-reviewed articles. She is licensed in California.
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- The Sweet Spot of Weekend Catch-up Sleep: U-shaped Associations with Internalizing Symptoms in Adolescents from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study.
- Weekend catch-up sleep and depressive symptoms in late adolescence and young adulthood: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
- Biomarker profiles of sleep disturbance in adolescence: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2015-2020.
- Supporting healthy development in adolescence: Technology-supported cooperative learning can reduce stress and increase sleep quality.
- Neighborhood social vulnerability as a mediator of racial disparities in insomnia severity.
- Childhood maltreatment and suicide attempts in major depression and bipolar disorders in South Korea: A prospective nationwide cohort study.
- Promoting adolescent sleep and circadian function: A narrative review on the importance of daylight access in schools.
- Biomarker Profiles of Depression During Young Adulthood: Results From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
- "Life will never be the same": a qualitative analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on adults with a history of insomnia.
- Sleep disorders and relative risk of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in youth presenting to emergency departments.
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