Center for Healthy Minds | 625 W. Washington Ave., Madison, WI 53703
Scholarly Publications
Faculty
Richard J. Davidson, Center Director
Recent Publications
Yu, Q., King, A. P., Yoon, C., Liberzon, I., Davidison, R. J., & Kitayama, S. (in press).
Interdependent Self-Construal Predicts Increased Gray Matter Volume of Scene Processing Regions in the Brain.
Biological Psychology.
Goldberg, S. B., Flook, L., Hirshberg, M. J., Davidson, R. J., & Schaefer, S. M. (in press).
Brief breath awareness training yields poorer working memory performance in the context of acute stress.
Cognition and Emotion. doi:10.1080/02699931.2021.1878113 [Epub ahead of print]
Urban-Wojcik, E., Lee, S., Charles, S., Almeida, D., Davidson, R. J., & Schaefer, S. (2020).
The Relationship Between Hippocampal Volume and Activity Diversity.
Innovation in Aging, 4(1), 652-653. doi:10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2249. PMCID: PMC7742556
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Recent Publications
Weng, H. Y., Ikeda, M. P., Lewis-Peacock, J. A., Chao, M. T., Fullwiley, D., Goldman, V., Skinner, S., Duncan, L. G., Gazzaley, A., & Hecht, F. M. (2020).
Toward a Compassionate Intersectional Neuroscience: Increasing Diversity and Equity in Contemplative Neuroscience.
Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 573134. PMCID: PMC7711109. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.573134
Sbrilli, M. D., Duncan, L. G., & Laurent, H. K. (2020).
Effects of prenatal mindfulness-based childbirth education on child-bearers’ trajectories of distress: a randomized control trial.
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 20, 623. doi:10.1186/s12884-020-03318-8
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Recent Publications
Compendium Selection Committee, Dalai Lama XIV, and Dunne, J.D. (2020).
The Mind. Edited by Thupten Jinpa. Introduction by the Dalai Lama XIV. Contextual essays by J.D. Dunne. Translated by J.D. Dunne and D. Rochard.
Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, Vol. 2. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications.
Lott, D. T., Yeshi, T., Dolma, S., Tsering, N., Jinpa, N., Woser, T., Dorjee, K., Desel, T., Fitch, D., Finley, A. J., Goldman, R., Ortiz Bernal, A. M., Ragazzi, R., Aroor, K., Koger, J., Francis, A., Perlman, D. M., Wielgosz, J., Bachhuber, D. R. W., Tamdin, T., Sadutshang, T. D., Dunne, J. D., Lutz, A., & Davidson, R. J. (2021).
No Detectable Electroencephalographic Activity 24-hours After Clinical Declaration of Death among Tibetan Buddhist Meditators in apparent tukdam, a putative postmortem meditation state.
Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 3873. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.599190.
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Recent Publications
Sun, S., Goldberg, S. B., Lin, D., Qiao, S., & Operario, D. (in press).
Psychiatric symptoms, risk, and protective factors among university students in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic in China.
Globalization and Health.
Goldberg, S. B., Flook, L., Hirshberg, M. J., Davidson, R. J., & Schaefer, S. M. (in press).
Brief breath awareness training yields poorer working memory performance in the context of acute stress.
Cognition and Emotion. doi:10.1080/02699931.2021.1878113 [Epub ahead of print]
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Recent Publications
Milavetz, Z., Pritzl, K., Muentner, L., & Poehlmann-Tynan, J. (in press).
Unmet Mental Health Needs of Jailed Parents With Young Children.
Family Relations, 70(1), 130-145. doi:10.1111/fare.12525.
Charles, P., Kerr, M., Wirth, J., Jensen, S., Massoglia, M., & Poehlmann-Tynan, J. (2021).
Lessons From the Field: Developing and Implementing an Intervention for Jailed Parents and Their Children.
Family Relations. 70(1), 171-178. doi:10.1111/fare.12524.
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Recent Publications
Mansur, R. B., Delgado-Peraza, F., Subramaniapillai, M., Lee, Y., Iacobucci, M., Nasri, F., Rodrigues, N., Rosenblat, J. D., Brietzke, E., Cosgrove, V. E., Kramer, N. E., Suppes, T., Raison, C. L., Fagiolini, A., Rasgon, N., Chawla, S., Nogueras-Ortiz, C., Kapogiannis, D., & McIntyre, R. S. (2021).
Exploring brain insulin resistance in adults with bipolar depression using extracellular vesicles of neuronal origin.
Journal of Psychiatric Research, 133, 82-92. doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2020.12.007
Mansur, R. B., Delgado-Peraza, F., Subramaniapillai, M., Lee, Y., Iacobucci, M., Rodrigues, N., Rosenblat, J. D., Brietzke, E., Cosgrove, V. E., Kramer, N. E., Suppes, T., Raison, C. L., Chawla, S., Nogueras-Ortiz, C., McIntyre, R. S., & Kapogiannis, D. (2020).
Extracellular Vesicle Biomarkers Reveal Inhibition of Neuroinflammation by Infliximab in Association with Antidepressant Response in Adults with Bipolar Depression.
Cells, 9(4), 895. doi:10.3390/cells9040895 PMCID:PMC7226726
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Recent Publications
Hirshberg, M. J., Goldberg, S. B., Rosenkranz, M., & Davidson, R. J. (in press).
Response to Van Dam and Galante’s correspondence “Underestimating harm in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.”
Psychological Medicine.
Goldberg, S. B., Imhoff-Smith, T., Bolt, D. M., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Dahl, C. J., Davidson, R. J., & Rosenkranz, M. A. (2020).
Testing the Efficacy of a Multicomponent, Self-Guided, Smartphone-Based Meditation App: Three-Armed Randomized Controlled Trial.
JMIR Mental Health, 7(11), 23825. doi:10.2196/23825
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Recent Publications
Stephens, R. L., Langworthy, B. W., Short, S. J., Girault, J. B., Styner, M. A., Gilmore, J. H. (2020).
White Matter Development from Birth to 6 Years of Age: A Longitudinal Study.
Cerebral Cortex, 30(12), 6152-6168. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhaa170
Short, S. J., Willoughby, M. T., Camerota, M., Stephens, R. L., Steiner, R. J., Styner, M., & Gilmore, J. H. (2019).
Individual differences in neonatal white matter are associated with executive function at 3 years of age.
Brain Structure and Function, 224(9), 3159-3169. doi:10.1007/s00429-019-01955-0
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Scientists

Heather C. Abercrombie
Recent Publications
Sommerfeldt, S., Schaefer, S., Mumford, J., Grupe, D., Abercrombie, H., Davidson, R. J. (2020).
Neural Correlates of Heart Rate-Subjective Stress Coherence.
Biological Psychiatry, 87(9), p. S312. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.02.803
Martin, J. D. Abercrombie, H. C., Gilboa-Schechtman, E. Niedenthal, P. M. (2018).
Functionally distinct smiles elicit different physiological responses in an evaluative context.
Scientific Reports, 8(3558). doi:10.1038/s41598-018-21536-1
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Cortland Dahl
Recent Publications
Dahl, C. J., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. H., & Davidson, R. J. (2020).
The plasticity of well-being: A training-based framework for the cultivation of human flourishing.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(51), 32197-32206. doi:10.1073/pnas.2014859117
Goldberg, S. B., Imhoff-Smith, T., Bolt, D. M., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Dahl, C. J., Davidson, R. J., & Rosenkranz, M. A. (2020).
Testing the Efficacy of a Multicomponent, Self-Guided, Smartphone-Based Meditation App: Three-Armed Randomized Controlled Trial.
JMIR Mental Health, 7(11), 23825. doi:10.2196/23825
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Robin Goldman
Recent Publications
Lott, D. T., Yeshi, T., Dolma, S., Tsering, N., Jinpa, N., Woser, T., Dorjee, K., Desel, T., Fitch, D., Finley, A. J., Goldman, R., Ortiz Bernal, A. M., Ragazzi, R., Aroor, K., Koger, J., Francis, A., Perlman, D. M., Wielgosz, J., Bachhuber, D. R. W., Tamdin, T., Sadutshang, T. D., Dunne, J. D., Lutz, A., & Davidson, R. J. (2021).
No Detectable Electroencephalographic Activity 24-hours After Clinical Declaration of Death among Tibetan Buddhist Meditators in apparent tukdam, a putative postmortem meditation state.
Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 3873. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.599190.
Faller, J., Lin, Y., Doose, J., Saber, G. T., McIntosh, J. R., Teves, J. B., Goldman, R. I., George, M. S., Sajda, P., Brown, T. R. (2019).
An EEG-fMRI-TMS instrument to investigate BOLD response to EEG guided stimulation.
Presented at 2019 9th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2019, pp. 1054-1057, doi:10.1109/NER.2019.8716889.
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Dan Grupe
Recent Publications
Sommerfeldt, S., Schaefer, S., Mumford, J., Grupe, D., Abercrombie, H., Davidson, R. J. (2020).
Neural Correlates of Heart Rate-Subjective Stress Coherence.
Biological Psychiatry, 87(9), p. S312. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.02.803
Dennis, E. L., Disner, S. G., Fani, N., Salminen, L. E., Logue, M., Clarke, E. K., ... Morey, R. A. (in press).
Altered White Matter Microstructural Organization in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder across 3,049 Adults: Results from the PGC-ENIGMA PTSD Consortium.
Molecular Psychiatry.doi:10.1038/s41380-019-0631-x. PMCID:PMC7302988 [Epub ahead of print]
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Stacey Schaefer
Recent Publications
Goldberg, S. B., Flook, L., Hirshberg, M. J., Davidson, R. J., & Schaefer, S. M. (in press).
Brief breath awareness training yields poorer working memory performance in the context of acute stress.
Cognition and Emotion. doi:10.1080/02699931.2021.1878113 [Epub ahead of print]
Urban-Wojcik, E., Lee, S., Charles, S., Almeida, D., Davidson, R. J., & Schaefer, S. (2020).
The Relationship Between Hippocampal Volume and Activity Diversity.
Innovation in Aging, 4(1), 652-653. doi:10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2249. PMCID: PMC7742556
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Christy Wilson-Mendenhall
Recent Publications
Dahl, C. J., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. H., & Davidson, R. J. (2020).
The plasticity of well-being: A training-based framework for the cultivation of human flourishing.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(51), 32197-32206. doi:10.1073/pnas.2014859117
Goldberg, S. B., Imhoff-Smith, T., Bolt, D. M., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Dahl, C. J., Davidson, R. J., & Rosenkranz, M. A. (2020).
Testing the Efficacy of a Multicomponent, Self-Guided, Smartphone-Based Meditation App: Three-Armed Randomized Controlled Trial.
JMIR Mental Health, 7(11), 23825. doi:10.2196/23825
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