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Lynne Lamberg

Lynne Lamberg (born 1942) is an American freelance science journalist, writer and editor. In addition to books on sleep, dreams, and biological rhythms, she has written hundreds of articles on mental and physical health for medical professionals and the general public.

Lynne Lamberg
Portrait by Stanford Lamberg
Portrait by Stanford Lamberg
BornLynne Sheila Friedman[1]
1942
St. Louis, Missouri
OccupationFreelance science journalist, editor and author
EducationUniversity of Michigan
B.A., Washington University in St. Louis
M.A., Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
GenreJournalism
SubjectMedicine and health
SpouseStanford Lamberg

Early life and education

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Lynne (Friedman) Lamberg, the daughter of Ralph M. and Fay G. (Bialick) Friedman,[2] was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1942.[3] After a year at the University of Michigan, she earned an A.B. degree in 1963 at Washington University in St. Louis, where she was a writer and editor for the campus newspaper, Student Life, and editor-in-chief of The Hatchet yearbook. She earned an M.A. in 1967 at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.[4] She married Stanford I. Lamberg in 1962.[5]

Career

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In 1962 Lamberg began her career as assistant director of public relations at the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis (now Barnes-Jewish Hospital). In 1964 she became director of public relations at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.[6]

In the 1970s, Lamberg began to work as a freelance medical writer, focusing on the then-emerging science of sleep. During a nighttime observation at the University of Chicago sleep laboratory, she had an unexpected encounter with two alligators housed in a bathroom, subjects themselves of a sleep study.[7] The experience heightened her interest in reporting on diverse aspects of the then-young science of sleep.

By 1986, she had already written more than 60 articles on sleep and dreams for general circulation magazines, according to The Baltimore Sun.[8]

Lamberg continued to contribute articles to medical publications and popular magazines, according to WebMD: "Lynne Lamberg writes on psychiatry and sleep medicine for physicians in The Journal of the American Medical Association and Psychiatric News. She has written hundreds of articles, book reviews, and op-ed essays for Better Homes and Gardens, Self, Psychology Today, Brainwork, New Choices, Working Woman, Ladies' Home Journal, and other national circulation magazines, as well as for The Baltimore Sun, The Atlanta Constitution, Orlando Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, and other newspapers."[9] The Sleep Foundation said, "She is a regular contributor to JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association), and Psychiatric News, and reviews consumer books on sleep, biological rhythms and dreams."[10]

Critical responses

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In the foreword to Bodyrhythms: Chronobiology and Peak Performance (William Morrow and Company, 1984), William C. Dement said, "...this is the most comprehensive text on sleep and wakefulness that has ever been written for the lay reader, and Lynne Lamberg, its author, is as much of a scientific expert as any nonscientist could be."[11] A review in The Baltimore Sun quoted Lamberg's example explaining chronotherapy: "A drug like aspirin stays in the body for a very long time; it may not make any difference what time it's taken. Other drugs disappear within three or four hours, so the timing may be important."[12][13] Elizabeth DeVita wrote in American Health that the book "...explores changing sleep patterns throughout the life cycle", concluding, "Eventually, says Lamberg, we may see a shift in school schedules, with high school students starting later and ending later in the day, and younger children starting earlier."[14]

Montague Ullman, reviewing Crisis Dreaming, wrote that Lamberg, "...judging from her preface, has a natural affinity for dreams. The result is an excellent introduction to dreams and how to understand them. Written in a graceful, flowing style and set in a personal tone, there results a sense of intimacy between author and reader. This book is authoritative, informative, respectful of the dreamer and the dream, and it offers a structure within which dream work can be pursued."[15]

John Langone, reviewing The Body Clock Guide in The New York Times in 2002, wrote, "Most of us can tell time, but few of us know how to tell body time, according to the authors of this book on (take your pick) chronobiology, chronomedicine, chronotherapy and chronorecord-keeping. 'We pay more attention to watches we wear on our wrists than to clocks we acquire in the womb,' they say. That diverted attention, they add, apparently prevents people from using the body's time machine, its natural rhythms, to fight illness and achieve maximum health. Sound too good to be true? Perhaps. But the science of body time is valid… All in all, it makes for informative reading, and it may well do some good."[16]

Selected publications

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Books

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  • Smolensky, Michael; Lamberg, Lynne (2000). The Body Clock Guide to Better Health: How to Use Your Body's Natural Clock to Fight Illness and Achieve Maximum Health. New York: Henry Holt and Co. ASIN B00TDQ1TL6.
  • Lamberg, Lynne (2000). Skin Disorders (21st Century Health and Wellness). New York: Chelsea House Publishing. ISBN 0791059839.
  • Lamberg, Lynne (1994). Bodyrhythms: Chronobiology and Peak Performance. William Morrow & Co. ISBN 0877959919.
  • Cartwright, Rosalind; Lamberg, Lynne (1992). Crisis Dreaming: Using Your Dreams to Solve Your Problems. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0060921870.
  • Lamberg, Lynne (1988). Drugs and Sleep (Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Drugs, Series 2). New York: Chelsea House Publishers. ISBN 1555462138.
  • Lamberg, Lynne (1984). The American Medical Association Guide to Better Sleep. New York: Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 0394721535.

Selected articles

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Awards, honors

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While she was still in college, her factual feature article, "It's All in a Day's Work", won first prize in the local 1962 National Society of Arts and Letters contest.[17]

In 1986 she was awarded Class AAA first place of the American Academy of Family Physicians in Kansas City, Mo., for "Arthritis: An Encouraging Progress Report", published in Better Homes and Gardens.[4]

Lamberg was presented the first Writer's Award of the Maryland Psychiatric Society Inc., in 1986, cited "for bringing information about mental health and mental illness to the public through the use of the media".[8]

She received the 1999 National Alliance on Mental Illness Outstanding Media Award, for "What Are You Going to Do With a 41-Year-Old Man?"[18]

In 2001 she won the Outstanding Book Award of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, for The Body Clock Guide to Better Health: How to Use Your Body's Natural Clock to Fight Illness and Achieve Maximum Health, co-authored with Michael Smolensky.[8]

In 2005, she received the National Sleep Foundation Communications' Career Leadership Award for her skill in translating complex scientific concepts and reporting on diverse aspects of sleep medicine for a variety of audiences for more than three decades.[10]

In 2006, she received the Society for Women's Health Research Excellence in Women's Health Research Journalism Award, for "Risks and Benefits Key to Psychotropic Use During Pregnancy and Postpartum Period".[19] The citation said, "Lamberg chronicles the difficult choices mothers and their physicians face regarding the complex risks and benefits of taking psychotropic medications and the impact of that decision on mother and child from conception through breastfeeding."[20]

In 2016, the National Association of Science Writers gave Lamberg its Diane McGurgan Service Award, for volunteer service as NASW's Book Editor for more than 16 years, producing resources that highlight members' work and provide support for authors.[21]

Lamberg was the recipient of the Sleep Health Advocate Award of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine in June 2024.[22]

References

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  1. ^ "Friedman and Lamberg engagement". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. October 1, 1961. p. 36. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
  2. ^ "Ralph M. Friedman Recently Dies at 63". St. Louis Jewish Light. May 14, 1975. p. 26. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
  3. ^ "Lynne Friedman Named Editor of W.U. Yearbook". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. April 20, 1961. p. 66. Retrieved August 29, 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Lynne Friedman Lamberg". St. Louis Jewish Light. May 6, 1981. p. 24. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
  5. ^ "Miss Lynne Friedman, Stanford I. Lamberg Married in Temple". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. August 26, 1962. p. 83. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
  6. ^ "St. Louisan Appointed by Pennsylvania Hospital". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. September 2, 1964. p. 65. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
  7. ^ "Meet the 2024 AASM award recipients" (PDF). Montage: A Current Sleep Publication | AASM (2): 13. 2024.
  8. ^ a b c "Lynne Lamberg". The Baltimore Sun. November 9, 1986. p. 140. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
  9. ^ "Lynn Lamberg". WebMD. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
  10. ^ a b "Sleep Topics". Sleep Foundation. September 28, 2018. Archived from the original on April 27, 2006. Retrieved September 11, 2021.
  11. ^ Lamberg, Lynne (November 1, 2000). Bodyrhythms: Chronobiology and Peak Performance. iUniverse. ISBN 0595147852.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  12. ^ Lamberg, Lynne (December 13, 1994). "Time to Heal". The Baltimore Sun. p. 53. Retrieved September 5, 2021.
  13. ^ "Time to Heal (cont.)". The Baltimore Sun. December 13, 1994. p. 57. Retrieved September 5, 2021.
  14. ^ De Vita, Elizabeth (November 1995). "Too Tired to Learn?". American Health.
  15. ^ Ullman, Montague (1995). "Review of Crisis dreaming". Dreaming. 5 (1): 57–60. doi:10.1037/h0094424. ISSN 1573-3351.
  16. ^ Langone, John (February 5, 2002). "Books on Health; Learning to Tell Time on the Body's Clock". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 11, 2021.
  17. ^ "Washington U. Senior Wins Feature Writing Contest". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. March 26, 1962. p. 27. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
  18. ^ Lamberg, Lynne (September 16, 1998). "What Are You Going to Do With a 41-Year-Old Man?". JAMA. 280 (11): 954–956. doi:10.1001/jama.280.11.954-JMN0916-3-1. PMID 9749466. Retrieved September 5, 2021.
  19. ^ Lamberg, Lynne (October 5, 2005). "Risks and Benefits Key to Psychotropic Use During Pregnancy and Postpartum Period". JAMA. 294 (13): 1604–1608. doi:10.1001/jama.294.13.1604. ISSN 0098-7484. PMID 16204654.
  20. ^ "Society Honors Six Journalists with "Excellence in Women's Health Research Journalism Awards"". Newswise. October 26, 2006. Retrieved September 5, 2021.
  21. ^ "Diane McGurgan Service Award winner". www.nasw.org. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
  22. ^ Celmer, Lynn (May 15, 2024). "American Academy of Sleep Medicine announces 2024 award recipients". American Academy of Sleep Medicine – Association for Sleep Clinicians and Researchers. Retrieved October 12, 2024.
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