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Gregory Lee Stonerock

Gregory Lee Stonerock

Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Adult Psychiatry & Psychology
gregory.stonerock@duke.edu
DUMC 3651, Durham, NC 27710

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Is exercise a viable therapy for anxiety? Systematic review of recent literature and critical analysis.

Journal article Prog Cardiovasc Dis · 2024 OBJECTIVES: Exercise has been promoted as a treatment for a variety of psychiatric conditions. The benefits of exercise for depression are widely recognized, but the benefits of exercise for anxiety are uncertain. Although several reviews promoted exercise ... Full text Link to item Cite

Depression, social support, and clinical outcomes following lung transplantation: a single-center cohort study.

Journal article Transpl Int · May 2018 Depressive symptoms are common among lung transplant candidates and have been associated with poorer clinical outcomes in some studies. Previous studies have been plagued by methodologic problems, including small sample sizes, few clinical events, and unco ... Full text Link to item Cite

Neurological Sequelae and Clinical Outcomes After Lung Transplantation.

Journal article Transplant Direct · April 2018 BACKGROUND: Neurological complications are common after lung transplantation. However, no large cohort studies have examined the incidence, predictors, and clinical significance of neurological events sustained by lung transplant recipients. METHODS: We co ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Treatment of Anxiety in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease: A Systematic Review.

Journal article Psychosomatics · 2018 BACKGROUND: Anxiety is common in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and is associated with an increased risk for adverse outcomes. There has been a relative paucity of studies concerning treatment of anxiety in patients with CHD. OBJECTIVE: We cond ... Full text Link to item Cite

Role of Counseling to Promote Adherence in Healthy Lifestyle Medicine: Strategies to Improve Exercise Adherence and Enhance Physical Activity.

Journal article Prog Cardiovasc Dis · 2017 Although healthy lifestyles (HL) offer a number of health benefits, nonadherence to recommended lifestyle changes remains a frequent and difficult obstacle to realizing these benefits. Behavioral counseling can improve adherence to an HL. However, individu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Exercise as Treatment for Anxiety: Systematic Review and Analysis.

Journal article Ann Behav Med · August 2015 BACKGROUND: Exercise has been shown to reduce symptoms of anxiety, but few studies have studied exercise in individuals preselected because of their high anxiety. PURPOSE: The objective of this study is to review and critically evaluate studies of exercise ... Full text Link to item Cite

Development and psychometric properties of the Pulmonary-specific Quality-of-Life Scale in lung transplant patients.

Journal article J Heart Lung Transplant · August 2015 BACKGROUND: The Pulmonary-specific Quality-of-Life Scale (PQLS) was developed to measure quality of life (QoL) among patients awaiting lung transplant. The objective of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of the PQLS, identify empirical ... Full text Link to item Cite

Detecting the emergence of chronic pain in sickle cell disease.

Journal article J Pain Symptom Manage · June 2012 CONTEXT: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited hematological disease marked by intense pain. Early in life the pain is episodic, but it becomes increasingly chronic in many cases. Little is known about this emergence of a chronic pain state. OBJECTIVES ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pain-related catastrophizing in healthy women is associated with greater temporal summation of and reduced habituation to thermal pain.

Journal article Clin J Pain · October 2006 OBJECTIVE: Pain-related coping strategies, especially catastrophizing, play an influential role in shaping pain responses. However, although numerous studies have examined the impact of catastrophizing on chronic pain outcomes, relatively few have evaluate ... Full text Link to item Cite

Individual variation in rapid eye movement sleep is associated with pain perception in healthy women: preliminary data.

Journal article Sleep · July 2005 STUDY OBJECTIVES: Sleep-deprivation experiments suggest that sleep loss increases pain sensitivity. It is unclear from preliminary studies, however, whether sleep-related processes are directly associated with pain perception or whether hyperalgesia is due ... Full text Link to item Cite