Scholarly Publications

Richard J. Davidson, Center Director

Recent Publications

Dean III, D. C., Madrid, A., Planalp, E. M., Moody, J. F., Papale, L. A., Knobel, K. M., Wood, E. K., McAdams, R. M., Coe, C. L., Goldsmith, H. H., Davidson, R. J., Alisch, R. S., & Kling, P. J. (in press). Cord Blood DNA Methylation Modifications in Infants are Associated with White Matter Microstructure in the Context of Prenatal Maternal Depression and Anxiety. Scientific Reports.

Goldberg, S. B., Lam, S. U., Britton, W. B., & Davidson, R. J. (in press). Prevalence of meditation-related adverse effects in a population-based sample in the United States. Psychotherapy Research. doi:10.1080/10503307.2021.1933646. [Epub ahead of print].

Davidson, R. J. (in press). Childhood adversity and the brain: Harnessing the power of neuroplasticity Biological Psychiatry.

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Larissa G. Duncan

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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John D. Dunne

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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Simon Goldberg

Recent Publications

Sun, S., Goldberg, S. B., Loucks, E. B., & Brewer, J. A. (in press). Mindfulness-Based Interventions among people of color: A systematic review and meta-Analysis. Psychotherapy Research. 1-14. doi:10.1080/10503307.2021.1937369. [Online ahead of print].

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Julie Poehlmann-Tynan

Recent Publications

Poehlmann-Tynan, J., & Dallaire, D. (Eds.). (2021). Children with Incarcerated Mothers. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-67599-8

Poehlmann-Tynan, J., Muentner, L., Pritzl, K., Cuthrell, H., Hindt, L. A., Davis, L., & Shlafer, R. (2021). The Health and Development of Young Children Who Witnessed Their Parent’s Arrest Prior to Parental Jail Incarceration. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(9), 4512. doi:10.3390/ijerph18094512.

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Charles L. Raison

Recent Publications

Knight, J. M., Costanzo, E. S., Singh, S., Yin, Z., Szabo, A., Pawar, D. S., Hillard, C. J., Rizzo, J. D., D’Souza, A., Pasquini, M., Coe, C. L., Irwin, M. R., Raison, C. L., & Drobyski, W. R. (2021). The IL-6 antagonist tocilizumab is associated with worse depression and related symptoms in the medically ill. Translational Psychiatry, 11, 58. doi:10.1038/s41398-020-01164-y

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

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Melissa Rosenkranz

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. doi:10.1017/S0033291720005346 [Epub ahead of print]

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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Sarah J. Short

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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Heather C. Abercrombie

Recent Publications

Rivera-Bonet, C. N., Birn, R. M., Ladd, C. O., Meyerand, M. E., & Abercrombie, H. C. (2021). Cortisol effects on brain functional connectivity during emotion processing in women with depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 287(15), 247-254. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2021.03.034

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

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Cortland Dahl

Recent Publications

Goldberg, S. B., Baldwin, S. A., Riordan, K. M., Torous, J., Dahl, C. J., Davidson, R. J., & Hirshberg, M. J. (in press). Alliance with an unguided smartphone app: Validation of the Digital Working Alliance Inventory. Assessment.

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

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Robin Goldman

Recent Publications

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

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

Pedersen, W. S., Dean III, D. C., Adluru, N., Gresham, L. K., Lee, S. D., Kelly, M. P., Mumford, J. A., Davidson, R. J., & Schaefer, S. M. (in press). Individual Variation in White Matter Microstructure is Related to Better Recovery from Negative Stimuli. Emotion.

Puccetti, N., Schaefer, S., van Reekum, C., Ong, A., Almeida, D., Ryff, C., Davidson, R. J., & Heller, A. (2021). Linking amygdala persistence to real-world emotional experience and psychological well-being. The Journal of Neuroscience, 41(16), 3721-3730. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1637-20.2021

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Christy Wilson-Mendenhall

Recent Publications

Fugate, J. M. B. & Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D. (in press). Embodied emotion, emotional granularity, and mindfulness: Improved learning in the classroom. In S. Macrine & J. M. B. Fugate (Eds.), Movement matters: How embodied cognition informs teaching and learning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

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