Area of research
Behavioral Neuroscience · Biological Psychiatry
Research interest
Research interests include Stress Responses and Cortisol, Tryptophan and brain disorders, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, and Mental Health Research Topics.
Hormonal Contraceptive Use and Affective Disorders: An Updated Review
Protocol for project MHISS: Mental Health and Immunodynamics of Social Stress
Sex Differences in Stress Susceptibility as a Key Mechanism Underlying Depression Risk
The effects of childhood adversity on twenty-five disease biomarkers and twenty health conditions in adulthood: Differences by sex and stressor type
The Psychoneuroimmunological Model of Moral Distress and Health in Healthcare Workers: Toward Individual and System-Level Solutions
The Stress Phenotyping Framework: A multidisciplinary biobehavioral approach for assessing and therapeutically targeting maladaptive stress physiology
Lifetime adversity predicts depression, anxiety, and cognitive impairment in a nationally representative sample of older adults in the United States
Cumulative stressor exposure predicts menstrual cycle affective changes in a transdiagnostic outpatient sample with past-month suicidal ideation
Social Safety Theory: Conceptual foundation, underlying mechanisms, and future directions
Wearable technologies for health research: Opportunities, limitations, and practical and conceptual considerations
A systematic review of associations between emotion regulation characteristics and inflammation
Human social genomics: Concepts, mechanisms, and implications for health
The future is dynamic: A call for intensive longitudinal data in immunopsychiatry
Social disadvantage during pregnancy: effects on gestational age and birthweight
Threat exposure moderates associations between neural and physiological indices of emotion reactivity in adolescent females
Why is subjective stress severity a stronger predictor of health than stressor exposure? A preregistered two‐study test of two hypotheses
The Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Neighborhood Crime on Neonatal Functional Connectivity
Cumulative lifetime acute stressor exposure interacts with reward responsiveness to predict longitudinal increases in depression severity in adolescence
Greater Cumulative Lifetime Stressor Exposure Predicts Blunted Reward Positivity in Adolescent Girls Followed for 2 Years
Research priorities to address the global burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the next decade
Reduced adaptation of glutamatergic stress response is associated with pessimistic expectations in depression
Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action.
Social Safety Theory: A Biologically Based Evolutionary Perspective on Life Stress, Health, and Behavior
Psychosocial Interventions and Immune System Function
The Stress and Adversity Inventory for Adults (Adult STRAIN) in Brazilian Portuguese: Initial Validation and Links With Executive Function, Sleep, and Mental and Physical Health
Interpersonal life stress, inflammation, and depression in adolescence: Testing Social Signal Transduction Theory of Depression
Epithelial‐mesenchymal transition polarization in ovarian carcinomas from patients with high social isolation
Inflammatory cytokine levels implicated in Alzheimer’s disease moderate the effects of sex on verbal memory performance
Chronic inflammation in the etiology of disease across the life span
A longitudinal big data approach for precision health