Journal ArticleJ Psychiatr Res · December 2024
People with lower levels of social connection are at increased risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors. This extends to populations at greater risk of death by suicide, including U.S. military veterans. Despite this well-established association, it is unc ...
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Journal ArticleJ Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci · November 1, 2024
BACKGROUND: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic medical condition characterized by red blood cell sickling, vaso-occlusion, hemolytic anemia, and subsequently, end-organ damage and reduced survival. Because of this significant pathophysiology and early ...
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Journal ArticlemedRxiv · October 23, 2024
Epigenetic measures of aging derived from DNA methylation are promising biomarkers associated with prospective morbidity and mortality, but require validation in real-world medical settings. Using data from 2,216 post-9/11 veterans, we examined whether acc ...
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Journal ArticleTranslational psychiatry · July 2024
Although stress and adversity are largely universal experiences, people exposed to greater hardship are at increased risk for negative health consequences. Recent studies identify accelerated biological aging as a mechanism that could explain how trauma an ...
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Journal ArticlePsychiatry Res · June 2024
Measures of epigenetic aging derived from DNA methylation (DNAm) have enabled the assessment of biological aging in new populations and cohorts. In the present study, we used an epigenetic measure of aging, DunedinPACE, to examine rates of aging across dem ...
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Journal ArticleJ Psychiatr Res · June 2024
Exposure to toxins-such as heavy metals and air pollution-can result in poor health and wellbeing. Recent scientific and media attention has highlighted negative health outcomes associated with toxic exposures for U.S. military personnel deployed overseas. ...
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Journal ArticlePsychiatry Res · March 2024
Cannabis use has been increasing over the past decade, not only in the general US population, but particularly among military veterans. With this rise in use has come a concomitant increase in cannabis use disorder (CUD) among veterans. Here, we performed ...
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Journal ArticleTransl Psychiatry · January 6, 2024
People who experience trauma and develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are at increased risk for poor health. One mechanism that could explain this risk is accelerated biological aging, which is associated with the accumulation of chronic diseases, ...
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Journal ArticleClinical Psychological Science · January 1, 2024
Adversity that exhibits continuity across the life course has long-term detrimental effects on physical and mental health. Using 920 participants from the Dunedin Study, we tested the following hypotheses: (a) Children (ages 3–15) who experienced adversity ...
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Journal ArticlePrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · July 2023
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with poorer health, which has spurred public health efforts to reduce the number of adverse events children experience. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that all ACEs can be prevented. For adults who already ...
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Journal ArticlePsychosom Med · June 1, 2023
OBJECTIVE: Stress and stressful events are associated with poorer health; however, there are multiple ways to conceptualize and measure stress and stress responses. One physiological mechanism through which stress could result in poorer health is accelerat ...
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Journal ArticleNeurology · September 2022
Background and objectivesDNA methylation algorithms are increasingly used to estimate biological aging; however, how these proposed measures of whole-organism biological aging relate to aging in the brain is not known. We used data from the Alzhei ...
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Journal ArticlePsychophysiology · August 2022
Both greater cardiovascular reactivity and lesser reactivity ("blunting") to laboratory stressors are linked to poor health outcomes, including among people who have a history of traumatic experiences. In a sample of recently separated and divorced adults ...
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Journal ArticlePNAS nexus · May 2022
To design effective pro-vaccination messaging, it is important to know "where people are coming from"-the personal experiences and long-standing values, motives, lifestyles, preferences, emotional tendencies, and information-processing capacities of people ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA pediatrics · April 2022
ImportanceBiological aging is a distinct construct from health; however, people who age quickly are more likely to experience poor health. Identifying pediatric health conditions associated with accelerated aging could help develop treatment appro ...
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Journal ArticleBrain, behavior, and immunity · October 2021
Stressful life events have been linked to declining health, and inflammation has been proposed as a physiological mechanism that might explain this association. Using 828 participants from the Dunedin Longitudinal Study, we tested whether people who experi ...
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Journal ArticleClinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · September 2021
Cardiovascular reactivity has been proposed as a biomarker linking childhood adversity and poorer health. The current study examined the association of childhood adversity, cardiovascular reactivity, and health in the Dunedin (n=922) and MIDUS studi ...
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Journal ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982) · September 2021
ObjectivesPersonality traits are linked with healthy aging, but it is not clear how these associations come to manifest across the life-course and across generations. To study this question, we tested a series of hypotheses about (a) personality-t ...
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Journal ArticleBiological psychiatry · August 2021
BackgroundChildhood adversity has been previously associated with alterations in brain structure, but heterogeneous designs, methods, and measures have contributed to mixed results and have impeded progress in mapping the biological embedding of c ...
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Journal ArticlePsychosomatic medicine · June 2021
ObjectiveThe Great Recession in 2008 was a period of severe economic upheaval and myriad financial stressors. Financial stress is associated with poorer health, but for whom is this stress the most health-relevant? The current study examined the a ...
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Journal ArticlePsychosomatic medicine · May 2021
ObjectiveSocial distancing has been one of the primary interventions used to slow the spread of COVID-19 during the ongoing pandemic. Although statewide stay-at-home orders in the United States received a large degree of media and political attent ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of traumatic stress · April 2021
The emotional processing theory of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) posits that avoidance is central to PTSD development and maintenance. Prolonged exposure (PE) therapy, which clinically focuses on avoidance reduction, has strong empirical support as ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of traumatic stress · April 2021
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is linked to both altered physiological functioning and poorer cardiovascular health outcomes, including an increased risk for cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular-related mortality. An important question is whethe ...
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ConferencePsychology and aging · December 2020
The characteristics of people's relationships have relevance to health-high quality romantic relationships are associated with improved health whereas intimate partner violence is associated with poorer health. Recently, increased attention has been focuse ...
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Journal ArticleBrain, behavior, and immunity · August 2020
BackgroundBereavement is associated with poorer health and early mortality. Increased systemic inflammation is one pathophysiological pathway thought to explain this health risk. However, few studies have examined systemic inflammation before and ...
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Journal ArticleAnnals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · August 2020
BackgroundSocial distancing-when people limit close contact with others outside their household-is a primary intervention available to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The importance of social distancing is unlikely to change until effective treatmen ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of psychiatric research · July 2020
Although cognitive behavioral interventions improve attitudes toward mental health treatment and reduce stigma, little is known about which types of attitudes change, or how this change occurs. Active duty soldiers with PTSD (N = 162) were randomized to 10 ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of behavioral medicine · June 2020
Stressful health situations may compromise spouses'/partners' ability to provide patients with support. We tested whether partner status/partner presence in the emergency department (ED) were associated with patients' adherence to daily cardiovascular medi ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of affective disorders · January 2020
BackgroundPosttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) results in high costs to society, particularly among military personnel. Much is known about PTSD treatments-such as exposure therapies-and their outcomes, but less is known about how treatment might ...
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Journal ArticlePsychosomatic medicine · January 2020
ObjectivePosttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is linked to poor health, including cardiovascular disease. These effects may be a result of increased tonic cardiovascular function and cardiovascular reactivity. Despite PTSD's negative health burden ...
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Journal ArticleNeuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition · September 2019
Aging adults experience declines in working memory and episodic memory, however, it is unclear how these declines operate over time. Decreased working memory may be associated with early changes in episodic memory, by reducing older adults' ability to mean ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of psychiatric research · September 2019
ObjectiveThe current study sought to examine the relationship between changes in distress for items on in-vivo exposure hierarchies and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom change over the course of exposure therapy.MethodsActive ...
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Journal ArticlePsychiatry research · August 2019
Research has described the association between lifetime trauma exposure and psychiatric symptoms among various cohorts, but little is known about the effect of lifetime trauma histories on the symptom expression of active-duty military personnel diagnosed ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Social and Personal Relationships · June 1, 2019
Divorce is a stressful life event that is associated with increased risk for poor mental and physical health. A key goal for research in this area is to understand individual differences in who fares well or poorly over time, and whether behavioral markers ...
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Journal ArticlePsychophysiology · May 2019
Close relationships, especially high-quality romantic relationships, are consistently associated with positive physical health outcomes. Attenuated cardiovascular reactivity is one physiological mechanism implicated in explaining these effects. Drawing on ...
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Journal ArticleAnnals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · March 2019
BackgroundMarital separation and divorce are associated with an increased risk of early mortality, but the specific biobehavioral pathways that explain this association remain largely unknown.PurposeThis study sought to identify the putat ...
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Journal ArticlePsychosomatic medicine · January 2019
ObjectiveResearch in psychosomatic medicine includes a long history of studying how responses to anger-provoking situations are associated with health. In the context of a marriage, spouses may differ in their anger-coping response style. Where on ...
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Journal ArticleCollabra: Psychology · January 1, 2019
Martial dissolution is associated with risk for poor mental health outcomes, but less is known about the variables and processes that may explain this risk. In a sample of recently-separated adults (N = 138), this study examined the association of psycholo ...
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Journal ArticlePsychiatric rehabilitation journal · June 2018
ObjectiveSchizophrenia researchers have focused on phenomenological aspects of the disorder to better understand its underlying nature. In particular, development of personal narratives-that is, the complexity with which people form, organize, and ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Social and Clinical Psychology · April 1, 2018
When romantic relationships end, many people experience a loss in identity or loss of self with subsequent psychological distress. To evaluate the predictive validity of loss of self in a sample of separated/divorced adults (N = 133), we use self-report da ...
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Journal ArticlePsychosomatic medicine · July 2017
ObjectiveDivorce is a common stressor that is associated with increased risk for poor long-term physical and mental health. Using an experimental design, the current study examined the impact of expressive writing (EW) on average heart rate (HR), ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Social and Clinical Psychology · May 1, 2017
Divorce is a common stressor that is associated with increased risk for poor mental health. This study examined the creation of narrative as a psychological mechanism explaining the link between psychological overinvolvement and psychological distress in a ...
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Journal ArticleAging & mental health · February 2017
ObjectivesSeveral risk and protective factors are associated with changes in cognitive functioning in aging adults - including physical health, depression, physical activity, and social activities - though the findings for participation in social ...
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Journal ArticleBrain, behavior, and immunity · February 2017
Inflammatory models of neurodegeneration suggest that higher circulating levels of inflammation can lead to cognitive decline. Despite established independent associations between greater body mass, increased inflammation, and cognitive decline, no prior r ...
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Journal ArticlePsychological science · August 2016
Divorce is a stressor associated with long-term health risk, though the mechanisms of this effect are poorly understood. Cardiovascular reactivity is one biological pathway implicated as a predictor of poor long-term health after divorce. A sample of recen ...
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Journal ArticleAnnals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · June 2016
BackgroundPhysical activity and body mass predict cognition in the elderly. However, mixed evidence suggests that obesity is associated with poorer cognition, while also protecting against cognitive decline in older age.PurposeWe investig ...
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Journal ArticlePsychological science · February 2016
Spouses influence each other's psychological functioning and quality of life. To explore whether this interdependence continues after a person becomes widowed, we tested whether deceased spouses' characteristics were associated with their widowed partners' ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · June 2015
Although marital dissolution is associated with increased risk for poor mental and physical health outcomes, many people report improvements in functioning after divorce. To study the hypothesis that women in lower quality marriages would report the best o ...
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Journal ArticlePsychology and aging · June 2015
Married couples evidence interdependence in their psychological and physical wellbeing across the life span. This is particularly true in aging populations that experience declines in physical health and cognitive ability. This study investigated the effec ...
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Journal ArticleCurrent directions in psychological science · April 2015
This paper reviews what is known about the association between marital dissolution and health outcomes in adults. Two of the major empirical findings in the literature-that most people do well following marital separation and that this life event increases ...
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