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Overview
My research integrates tools and methods from clinical
psychology, health psychology, and social neuroscience to examine how and why social
stressors affect health. I am particularly interested in identifying what types of stress are most relevant for
health, and which cognitive, neural, and peripheral mediators are responsible
for translating the external social environment into the internal biological environment
of disease pathogenesis. By addressing these issues, I hope to explain the considerable
variability that has been observed in susceptibility to major psychiatric and physical disorders,
including asthma, arthritis, cardiovascular disease, ovarian and breast cancer, and depression. This work is
generously sponsored by:
I have secondary interests in the
principles and methods of transformational teaching. This is an approach
to classroom instruction that I have developed with Dr. Philip Zimbardo.
Support for this project has been provided by:
Summary of Current Projects
Neural Bases of Inflammatory Responses to Stress
Life Stress and Neural Responsivity to Reward in Depression
Role of Chronic Stress in Cancer-Related Fatigue in Breast Cancer
Stress, Depression, and the Tumor Microenvironment in Ovarian Cancer
Automated Assessment of Human Life Stress
Principles and Methods of Transformational Teaching
Collaborators
Julienne E. Bower, Ph.D., UCLA |
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Naomi I. Eisenberger, Ph.D., UCLA |
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Elissa E. Epel, Ph.D., UCSF | Website
Ian H. Gotlib, Ph.D., Stanford University | Website
Kate L. Harkness, Ph.D., Queen's University |
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Margaret E. Kemeny, Ph.D., UCSF |
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Susan K. Lutgendorf, Ph.D., University of Iowa |
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Diego A. Pizzagalli, Ph.D., Harvard University |
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Scott M. Monroe, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame | Website
Philip G. Zimbardo, Ph.D., Stanford University |
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