Caroline Hoyniak
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
- Phone: 314-273-5780
- Email: choyniak@nospam.wustl.edu
Education & Training
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, NIMH T32: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2021
- Ph.D.: Indiana University Bloomington, 2019
- D.Sc.: Indiana State University, 2019
Major Awards
- Brain and Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Award, 2023
- NIMH K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award, 2021
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2014
Research Interests
Dr. Hoyniak’s research focuses on the development of sleep problems in early childhood. Her research explores how sleep and circadian rhythm disturbances contribute to risk for the emergence of psychopathology in early childhood, with a particular focus on mood disorders. Her research also explores the contextual factors that confer risk for sleep disturbances in early childhood. In her research, she uses a combination of psychophysiological (e.g., actigraphy, polysomnography, EEG/ERP) and observational (both in-lab and in-home) data collection.
Recent Publications
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Caregiver-child affective dynamics during preschool predict preadolescent suicidal thoughts and behaviors
Quiñones-Camacho, L. E., Gilbert, K. E., Hennefield, L., Hoyniak, C., Thompson, R. J., Tillman, R., Barch, D. M., Luby, J. L. & Whalen, D. J., Apr 2025, In: Personality and Individual Differences. 237, 113048.
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Editorial: Reciprocity between sleep and mood in early childhood – an under-explored neural marker of depression risk
Hoyniak, C. & Luby, J., Sep 2024, In: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines. 65, 9, p. 1133-1134 2 p.
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Preschool Mood Disorders: A Review of the Literature from 2017 to 2024
Hoyniak, C. P., Donohue, M. R., Hennefield, L. & Whalen, D. J., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America.
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The association between maternal sleep and circadian rhythms during pregnancy and infant sleep and socioemotional outcomes
Hoyniak, C. P., Donohue, M. R., Luby, J. L., Barch, D. M., Zhao, P., Smyser, C. D., Warner, B., Rogers, C. E., Herzog, E. D. & England, S. K., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.