Scholarly Publications

Richard J. Davidson, Center Director

Recent Publications

Goldberg, S.B., Tucker, R.P., Greene, P.A., Simpson, T. L., Hoyt, W. T., Kearney, D. J., Davidson, R. J. (2019). What Can We Learn from Randomized Clinical Trials About the Construct Validity of Self-Report Measures of Mindfulness? A Meta-Analysis. Mindfulness 10, 775–785. doi:10.1007/s12671-018-1032-y

Hirshberg, M. J., Goldberg, S. B., Rosenkranz, M., Davidson, R. J. (in press). Prevalence of Harm in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Psychological Medicine.

Dowe, K. N., Planalp, E. M., Dean, D. C. III., Alexander, A. L., Davidson, R. J., Goldsmith, H. H. (in press). Early Microstructure of White Matter Associated with Infant Attention. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.

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Larissa G. Duncan

Recent Publications

Duncan, L. G., & Bardacke, N. (2019). Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting [E-book]. Handbook of Mindfulness-Based Programmes: Mindfulness Interventions from Education to Health and Therapy. Routledge.

Park, Y.R., Nix, R.L., Duncan, L.G., Coatsworth, J.D. and Greenberg, M.T. (2019). Unfolding Relations among Mindful Parenting, Recurrent Conflict, and Adolescents’ Externalizing and Internalizing Problems. Family Process. doi:10.1111/famp.12498. [Epub ahead of print]

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John D. Dunne

Recent Publications

Dunne, J, Thompson, E., & Schooler, J. (2019). Mindful meta-awareness: Sustained and non-propositional. Current Opinion in Psychology, 28.

Dunne, J. (2020). Pac-Man to the rescue: Conceptuality and non-conceptuality in the Dharmakīrtian Theory of Pseudo-Perception. Philosophy East & West. 70(3), 571-593.

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Simon Goldberg

Recent Publications

Martinez, V. R., Flemotomos, N., Ardulov, V., Somandepalli, K., Goldberg, S. B., Imel, Z. E., Atkins, D. C., Narayanan, S. (2019). Identifying Therapist and Client Personae for Therapeutic Alliance Estimation, presented at Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria, 2019. doi:10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2829

Davis, J. M., Goldberg, S. B., Angel, K. S., Silver, R. H., Kragel, E. A., Lagrew, D. J. (2017). Observational Study on a Mindfulness Training for Smokers within a Smoking Cessation Program. Mindfulness, 8, 1689-1698. doi:/10.1007/s12671-017-0744-8

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Julie Poehlmann-Tynan

Recent Publications

Poehlmann-Tynan, J. (2020). Reuniting Young Children With Their Incarcerated Parents. ZERO TO THREE Journal, 40(4), pp. 30-39.

Shah, P. E., Browne, J., Poehlmann-Tynan, J. (2019). Prematurity: Identifying Risks and Promoting Resilience [E-book]. In C. H. Zeanah (Ed.), Handbook of Infant Mental Health. Guilford Press.

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Charles L. Raison

Recent Publications

Perez, M. L., Raison, C. L., Coe, C. L., Cook, D. B., Meyer, J. D. (2020). Cytokine responses across submaximal exercise intensities in women with major depressive disorder. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health, 2(100046). doi:10/1016/j.bbih.2020.100046

Lowry, C., Flux, M., Raison, C. (2018). Whole-Body Heating: An Emerging Therapeutic Approach to Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder. Focus. doi:10.1176/appi.focus.20180009

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Melissa Rosenkranz

Recent Publications

Hirshberg, M. J., Goldberg, S. B., Rosenkranz, M., Davidson, R. J. (in press). Prevalence of Harm in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Psychological Medicine.

Pedersen, W. S., Kral, T. R. A., Rosenkranz, M. A., Mumford, J. A., Davidson, R. J. (2019). Increased BNST Reactivity to Affective Images is Associated with Greater α-Amylase Response to Social Stress. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 14(12), 1263-1272. doi:10.1093/scan/nsaa010. PMCID: PMC7137719

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Sarah J. Short

Recent Publications

Stephens, R. L., Langworthy, B. W., Short, S. J., Girault, J. B., Styner, M. A., Gilmore, J. H. (in press). White Matter Development from Birth to 6 Years of Age: A Longitudinal Study. Cerebral Cortex. https://doi.org/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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Heather C. Abercrombie

Recent Publications

Plante, D. T., Birn, R. M., Walsh, E. C., Hoks, R. M., Cornejo, M. D., & Abercrombie, H. C. (2018). Reduced resting-state thalamostriatal functional connectivity is associated with excessive daytime sleepiness in persons with and without depressive disorders. Journal of Affective Disorders, 227, 517-520. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2017.11.054 PMCID: PMC5805569

Philippi, C. L., Cornejo, M. D., Frost, C. P., Walsh, E. C., Hoks, R. M., Birn, R., & Abercrombie, H. C. (2018). Neural and behavioral correlates of negative self-focused thought associated with depression. Human Brain Mapping, 39(5), 2246-2257. doi:10.1002/hbm.24003 PMCID: PMC5895491

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Cortland Dahl

Recent Publications

Dahl, C. J. & Davidson, R. J. (2019). Mindfulness and the contemplative life: Pathways to connection, insight, and purpose. Current Opinion in Psychology, 28, 60-4. doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.11.007 PMCID: Policy Exempt -- not a peer-reviewed research article.

Davidson, R. J. & Dahl, C. J. (2017). Outstanding challenges in scientific research on mindfulness and meditation. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 13(1), 62-65. doi: 10.1177/1745691617718358 Policy Exempt -- not a peer reviewed publication.

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Robin Goldman

Recent Publications

Adluru, N., Korponay, C., Norton, D. L., Goldman, R. I., & Davidson, R. J. (2020). BrainAGE and regional volumetric analysis of a Buddhist Monk: A longitudinal MRI case study. Neurocase, 26(2), 79-90. PMCID: PMC7150651. doi:10.1080/13554794.2020.1731553.

Korb, S., Goldman, R., Davidson, R. J., & Niedenthal, P.M. (2019). Increased medial prefrontal cortex and decreased zygomaticus activation in response to disliked smiles suggest top-down inhibition of facial mimicry. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1715 doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01715 PMCID: PMC6677088

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Dan Grupe

Recent Publications

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. NIHMSID: 1062088 doi:10.1038/s41380-019-0631-x

Grupe, D. W., Hushek, B. A., Davis, K., Schoen, A. J., Wielgosz, J., Nitschke, J. B., & Davidson, R. J. (2019). Elevated perceived threat is associated with reduced hippocampal volume in combat veterans. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 14888. PMCID: PMC6797706 doi:10.1038/s41598-01-51533-x

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Pelin Kesebir

Recent Publications

Kesebir, P., Gąsiorowska, A., Goldman, R., & Hirshberg, M. J., & Davidson, R. J. (2019). Emotional Style Questionnaire: A multidimensional measure of healthy emotionality. Psychological Assessment, 31(10), 1234-1246. doi:10.1037/pas0000745 PMCID: PMC6776667

Goldberg, S. B., Flook, L., Hirshberg, M. J., Findley, D., Kesebir, P., Schaefer, S. M., & Davidson, R. J. (2017). Getting a grip on the handgrip task: Handgrip duration correlates with neuroticism but not conscientiousness. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1367. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01367 PMCID: PMC5554525

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Jeanette Mumford

Recent Publications

Urban-Wojcik, E. J., Mumford, J. A., Almeida, D. M., Lachman, M. E., Ryff, C. D., Davidson, R. J., & Schaefer, S. M. (2020). Emodiversity, health, and well-being in the MIDUS daily diary study. Emotion. doi:10.1037/emo0000753. [Epub ahead of print]

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Stacey Schaefer

Recent Publications

Pedersen, W. S., Schaefer, S. M., Gresham, L. K., Lee, S. D., Kelly, M. P., Mumford, J. A., Oler, J. A., Davidson, R. J. (2020). Higher resting-state BNST-CeA connectivity is associated with greater corrugator supercilii reactivity to negatively valenced images. NeuroImage, 207, 116428. PMCID: PMC7058151 doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116428

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Christy Wilson-Mendenhall

Recent Publications

Wilson-Mendenhall, C., J. Dunne, & P. Condon. (2019). Achieving deep integration across disciplines: A process lens on investigating human flourishing. In N. Snow & D. Narvaez (Eds.), Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory: Self, Motivation, and Virtue Innovative Interdisciplinary Research. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.

Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D. (2017). Constructing emotion through simulation. Current Opinion in Psychology, 17, 189-194. doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.07.015

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