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,.