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Publications by Melissa Rosenkranz

Carrol, D., Busse, W.W., Frye, C.J., Klaus, D.R., Bach, J.C., Floerke, H., Bendlin, B.B., Zetterberg, H., Blennow, K., Heslegrave, A., Hoel, R. & Rosenkranz, M.A. (2025). Regional brain structural alterations in reward and salience networks in asthma. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 126, 80-97. 10.1016/j.bbi.2025.01.028 PMCID: PMC12003077
Higgins, E. T., Busse, W. W., Esnault, S., Christian, B. T., Klaus, D. R., Bach, J. C., Frye, C. J., Rosenkranz, M. A. (2025). Fueling the fire in the lung-brain axis: the salience network connects allergen-provoked TH17 responses to psychological stress in asthma. Brain Behavior and Immunity, 28(1), 276-288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2025.04.004 PMCID: PMC12286730
Liebscher, M., Laubacher, C., Imhoff-Smith, T.P., Birn, R.M., Klaus, D.R., Frye, C.J., Busse, W.W. & Rosenkranz, M.A. (2025). Resting-state Network Dynamics in Asthma: Interplay Between Depressive Symptoms and Airway Inflammation. Biological Psychiatry – Global Open Science, 5(5), 100527. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsgos.2025.10052 PMCID: PMC12180996
Ritz, T., Rosenkranz, M. A., Celedón, J. C., Davenport, P. W., Djukanovic, R., Feldman, J. M., Forsythe, P. Jajour, N. N., Vercelli, D., von Leupoldt, A., & Wright, R. J. (2025). Asthma: Biomedical and Psychobiological Perspectives for the Disease of the Year 2023 Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine, 87(7), 428-444. DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000001410
Treves, I. N., Kucyi, A., Park, M., Kral, T. R. A., Goldberg, S. B., Davidson, R. J., Rosenkranz, M. A., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2025). Connectome predictive modeling of trait mindfulness. Human Brain Mapping, 46(1), e70123. ttps://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.70123 PMCID: PMC11711207
Bartels, CM, Chen, Y, Powell, WR, Rosenkranz, MA, Bendlin, B, Gilmore-Bykovskyi, A, Kramer, J, Busse, W.W., Kind, A.J. (2024). Alzheimer’s Disease Incidence and Prevalence with and without Asthma: A national Medicare cohort study. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 154(2), 498-502.e1. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2024.04.008 PMCID: PMC11305945
Dill-McFarland, K. A., Altman, M. C., Esnault, S., Jarjour, N. N., Busse, W. W., & Rosenkranz, M. A. (2024). Molecular pathways underlying lung-brain axis signaling in asthma: Relevance for psychopathology and neuroinflammation. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 153(1), 111-121. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2023.07.025 PMCID: PMC10841090
Laubacher, C., Imhoff-Smith, T. P., Kalus, D. R., Frye, C. J., Esnault, S., Busse, W. W., & Rosenkranz, M. A. (2024). Salience network resting state functional connectivity during airway inflammation in asthma: A feature of mental health resilience? Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 122, 9-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2024.07.042 PMCID: PMC11419731
Laubacher, C., Kral, T. R. A., Imhoff-Smith, T., Klaus, D. R., Goldman, R. I., Sachs, J., Davidson, R. J., Busse, W. W., & Rosenkranz, M. A. (2024). Resting state functional connectivity changes following mindfulness-based stress reduction predict improvements in disease control for patients with asthma. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 115, 480-493. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2023.10.026 PMCID: PMC10842225
Nair, A. K, Bendlin, B. B., Dean III, D. C., & Rosenkranz, M. A. (2024). Response to Gallina et al.’s correspondence “Failure of the glymphatic system by increases of jugular resistance as possible link between asthma and dementia”. Brain Communications, 6(1), fcae038. doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcae038 PMCID: PMC10896471
Tidwell, T., Namdul, T., Lee, K. E., Riordan, K. M., Skopicki, N., Palkyi, T., Jungney, J., Blake, K., Cheme, J., Namseling, N. Y., Yangzom, D., Tsomo, T., Ridak, D., Gyal, Y., Dakpa, T., Nyinda, T. S., Nyinda, N. G., Youdon, T., Weil, A., Kalzang, Y., Wangmo, P., Dhondrup, R., Weirich, E., Craig, S., & Rosenkranz, M. (2024). Effect of Tibetan Herbal Formulas on Symptom Duration Among Ambulatory Patients with Native SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity Integrative, 5, 100051. doi: 10.1016/j.bbii.2024.100051
Abercrombie, H. C., Barnes, A. L., Nord, E. C., Finley, A. J., Higgins, E. T., Grupe, D. W., Rosenkranz, M. A., Davidson, R. J., & Schaefer, S. M. (2023). Inverse association between stress induced cortisol elevations and negative emotional reactivity to stress in humans. Stress, 26(1). DOI: 10.1080/10253890.2023.2174780 PMCID: PMC9930177
Galante, J., Friedrich, C., Collaboration of Mindfulness Trials (CoMinT), Dalgleish, T., Jones, P. B., & White, I. R. (2023). Individual participant data systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials assessing adult mindfulness-based programmes for mental health promotion in non-clinical settings. Nature Mental Health, 1(7), 462-476. doi: 10.1038/s44220-023-00081-5 PMCID: PMC7615230
Kral, T. R. A., Weng, H. Y., Mitra, V., Imhoff-Smith, T. P., Azemi, E., Goldman, R. I., Rosenkranz, M. A., Wu, S., Chen, A., & Davidson, R. J. (2023). Slower respiration rate is associated with higher self-reported well-being after wellness training. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 15953. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-43176-w PMCID: PMC10518325
Nair A. K., Van Hulle C. A., Bendlin B. B., Zetterberg H., Blennow K., Wild N., Kollmorgen G., Suridjan I., Busse W. W., Dean D. C., Rosenkranz M. A. (2023). Impact of asthma on the brain: evidence from diffusion MRI, CSF biomarkers and cognitive decline. Brain Communications, 5(3), fcad180. https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcad180 PMCID:PMC10292933
Conway, L. C., Woodard, S. R., Zubrod, A.,...Goldberg, S. B., Rosenkranz, M. A.,...& Balmores-Paulino, R. (2022). How Culturally Unique are Pandemic Effects?: Evaluating Cultural Similarities and Differences in Effects of Age, Biological Sex, and Political Beliefs on COVID Impacts. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 937211. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.937211 PMCID: PMC9807227
Higgins, E. T., Davidson, R. J., Busse, W. W., Klaus, D. R., Bednarek, G. T., Goldman, R. I., Sachs, J., & Rosenkranz, M. A. (2022). Clinically relevant effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in individuals with asthma. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health, 25, 100509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbih.2022.100509 PMCID:PMC9513112
Kral, T. R. A., Davis, K., Korponay, C., Hirshberg, M. J., Hoel, R., Tello, L. Y., Goldman, R. I., Rosenkranz, M. A., Lutz, A., & Davidson, R. J. (2022). Absence of structural brain changes from mindfulness-based stress reduction: Two combined randomized controlled trials. Science Advances, 8(20), eabk3316. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abk3316 PMCID: PMC9122316
Kral, T. R. A., Lapate, R. C., Imhoff-Smith, T., Patsenko, E., Grupe, D., Goldman, R., Rosenkranz, M. A., & Davidson, R. J. (2022). Long-term meditation training is associated with enhanced subjective attention and stronger posterior cingulate – rostrolateral prefrontal cortex resting connectivity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(9), 1576-1589. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01881 PMCID:PMC9357181
Nair, A. K., Van Hulle, C. A., Bendlin, B. B., Zetterberg, H., Blennow, K., Wild, N., Kollmorgen, G., Suridjan, I., Busse, W. W., & Rosenkranz, M. A. (2022). Asthma amplifies dementia risk: Evidence from CSF biomarkers and cognitive decline. Alzheimers & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Intervention, 8(1), e12315. https://doi.org/10.1002/trc2.12315 PMCID: PMC9270636.
Riordan, K. M., MacCoon, D., Barrett, B., Rosenkranz, M. A., Chungyalpa, D., Lam, S., Davidson, R. J., & Goldberg, S. B. (2022). Does meditation training promote pro-environmental behavior? A cross-sectional comparison and a randomized controlled trial. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 84, 101900. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101900 PMCID: PMC10035784
Rosenkranz, M. A. (2022). Waiting for Godot: Progress in the measurement of human neuroinflammation with existing tools. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 101, 264-265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2022.01.010.
Rosenkranz, M. A., Dean, D. C., III, Bendlin, B. B., Jarjour, N. N., Esnault, S., Zetterberg, H., Heslegrave, A., Evans, M. D., Davidson, R. J., & Busse, W. W. (2022). Neuroimaging and biomarker evidence of neurodegeneration in asthma. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 149(2), 589-598.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2021.09.010. PMCID:PMC8821112
Rosenkranz, M.A., Esnault, S., Gresham, L., Davidson, R.J., Christian, B.T., Jarjour, N.N. & Busse, W.W. (2022). Role of the Amygdala in Stress-Induced Upregulation of Airway IL-1 Signaling in Asthma. Biological Psychology, 167, 108226. 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108226 PMCID: PMC9426565
Grupe, D. W., Stoller, J. L., Alonso, C., McGehee, C., Smith, C., Mumford, J., Rosenkranz, M. A., & Davidson, R. J. (2021). The impact of mindfulness training on police officer stress, mental health, and salivary cortisol levels. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 720753. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.720753 PMCID: PMC8448191
Hirshberg, M. J., Goldberg, S. B., Rosenkranz, M., & Davidson, R. J. (2021). Response to Van Dam and Galante’s correspondence “Underestimating harm in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.” Psychological Medicine, 1-3. doi:10.1017/S0033291720005346. PMCID:PMC8333244
Loucks, E. B., Rosenkranz, M. A., & Creswell, J. D. (2021). Harnessing Life's Slings and Arrows: The Science and Opportunities for Mindfulness Meditation During a Global Pandemic and Beyond. Psychosomatic Medicine, 83(6), 497-502. doi:10.1097/PSY.0000000000000961 PMCID: PMC8740951
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. PMCID: PMC7732708
Hirshberg, M. J., Goldberg, S. B., Rosenkranz, M., Davidson, R. J. (2020). Prevalence of Harm in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Psychological Medicine, 52(6), 1080-1088. doi:10.1017/S0033291720002834. PMCID: PMC7889774
Rosenkranz, M., Dean, D., Esnault, S., Evans, M., Davidson, R., Busse, W. (2020). Co-Morbid Asthma and Depression as Risk Factors for Neurodegeneration. Biological Psychiatry, 87(9), p. S152. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.02.403 PMCID: Policy Exempt.
Kral, T. R. A., Imhoff-Smith, T., Dean III, D. C., Grupe, D., Adluru, N., Patsenko, E., Mumford, J. A., Goldman, R., Rosenkrankz, M. A., & Davidson, R. J. (2019). Mindfulness-based stress reduction-related changes in posterior cingulate resting state connectivity. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 14(7), 777-787. doi:10.1093/scan/nsz050 PMCID: PMC6778831
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
Rosenkranz, M. A., Dunne, J. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2019). The next generation of mindfulness-based intervention research: What have we learned and where are we headed? Current Opinion in Psychology, 28, 179-83 doi:10.1016/j.codoipsyc.2018.12.022 PMCID: PMC6609495
Rosenkranz, M. A., Evans, M. D., Mumford, J. A., Esnault, S., Davidson, R. J, Busse, W. W. (2019). The Effect of Asthma on Activation of Brain Neurocircuits. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 143(2), AB7. doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2018.12.021 PMCID: Policy Exempt.
Kral, T. R. A., Schuyler, B. S., Mumford, J. A., Rosenkranz, M. A., Lutz, A., & Davidson, R. J. (2018). Impact of short- and long-term mindfulness meditation training on amygdala reactivity to emotional stimuli. NeuroImage, 181, 301-13. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.07.013 PMCID: PMC6671286
Goldberg, S. B., Wielgosz, J., Dahl, C., Schuyler, B., MacCoon, D. S., Rosenkranz, M., Lutz, A., Sebranek, C. A., & Davidson, R. J. (2016). Does the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire measure what we think it does? Construct validity evidence from an active controlled randomized clinical trial. Psychological Assessment, 28(8), 1009-14. doi:10.1037/pas0000233 PMCID: PMC4829487
Rosenkranz, M. A., Esnault, S., Christian, B. T., Crisafi, G., Gresham, L. K., Higgins, A. T., Moore, M. N., Moore, S. M., Weng, H. Y., Salk, R. H., Busse, W. W., & Davidson, R. J. (2016). Mind-body interactions in the regulation of airway inflammation in asthma: A PET study of acute and chronic stress. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 58, 18-30. doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2016.03.024 PMCID: PMC5045317
Rosenkranz, M. A., Lutz, A., Perlman, D. M., Bachhuber, D. R. W., Schuyler, B. S., MacCoon, D. G., & Davidson, R. J. (2016). Reduced stress and inflammatory responsiveness in experienced meditators compared to a matched healthy control group. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 68, 117-25. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2016.02.013 PMCID: PMC4851883
Kaliman, P., Álvarez-López, M. J., Cosín-Tomás, M., Rosenkranz, M. A., Lutz, A., & Davidson, R. J. (2014). Rapid changes in histone deacetylases and inflammatory gene expression in expert meditators. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 40, 96–107. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.11.004 PMCID: PMC4039194
Schuyler, B. S., Kral, T. R., Jacquart, J., Burghy, C. A., Weng, H. Y., Perlman, D. M., Bachhuber, D. R., Rosenkranz, M. A., Maccoon, D. G., van Reekum, C. M., Lutz, A., Davidson, R. J. (2014). Temporal dynamics of emotional responding: Amygdala recovery predicts emotional traits. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9(2), 176-81. doi:10.1093/scan/nss131 PMCID: PMC3907933
Rosenkranz, M., Davidson, R. J., MacCoon, D., Sheridan, J., Kalin, N., & Lutz, A. (2013). A comparison of mindfulness-based stress reduction and an active control in modulation of neurogenic inflammation. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 27(1), 174–84. doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2012.10.013 PMCID: PMC3518553
MacCoon, D. G., Imel, Z. E., Rosenkranz, M. A., Sheftel, J. G., Weng, H. Y., Sullivan, J. C., Bonus, K. A., Stoney, C. M., Salomons, T. V., Davidson, R. J., & Lutz, A. (2012). The validation of an active control intervention for Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Behaviour Research and Therapy, 50, 3-12. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2011.10.011 PMCID: PMC3257026
Rosenkranz, M. A., Busse, W. W., Sheridan, J. F., Crisafi, G. M., & Davidson, R. J. (2012). Are there neurophenotypes for asthma? Functional brain imaging of the interaction between emotion and inflammation in asthma. PLoS ONE, 7(8), e40921. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040921 PMCID: PMC3411610
Rosenkranz, M. A., & Davidson, R. J. (2009). Affective neural circuitry and mind-body influences in asthma. NeuroImage, 47(3), 972–980. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.05.042 PMCID: PMC2748325
Friedman, E. M., Love, G. D., Rosenkranz, M. A., Urry, H. L., Davidson, R. J., Singer, B. H., & Ryff, C. D. (2007). Socioeconomic status predicts objective and subjective sleep quality in aging women. Psychosomatic Medicine, 69, 682-691. doi:10.1097/PSY.0b013e31814ceada
Rosenkranz, M. (2007). Substance P at the nexus of mind and body in chronic inflammation and affective disorders. Psychological Bulletin, 133(6):1007-1037. DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.133.6.1007
Ryff, C. D., Love, G. D., Urry, H. L., Muller, D., Rosenkranz, M. A., Friedman, E. M., Davidson, R. J., & Singer, B. (2006). Psychological well-being and ill-being: Do they have distinct or mirrored biological correlates? Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 75, 85–95. doi:10.1159/000090892
Friedman, E. M., Hayney, M. S., Love, G. D., Urry, H. L., Rosenkranz, M. A., Davidson, R. J., Singer, B. H., & Ryff, C. D. (2005). Social relationships, sleep quality, and interleukin-6 in aging women. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102, 18757-18762. doi:10.1073/pnas.0509281102 PMCID: PMC1317967
Rosenkranz, M. A., Busse, W. W., Johnstone, T., Swenson, C. A., Crisafi, G. M., Jackson, M. M., Bosch, J. A., Sheridan, J. F., & Davidson, R. J. (2005). Neural circuitry underlying the interaction between emotion and asthma symptom exacerbation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102, 13319-13324. doi:10.1073/pnas.0504365102 PMCID: PMC1197272
Urry, H. L., Nitschke, J. B., Dolski, I., Jackson, D. C., Dalton, K. M., Mueller, C. J., Rosenkranz, M. A., Ryff, C. D., Singer, B. H., & Davidson, R. J. (2004). Making a life worth living: Neural correlates of well-being. Psychological Science, 15, 367-372. doi:10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.00686.x
Abercrombie, H. C., Kalin, N. H., Thurow, M. E., Rosenkranz, M. A., & Davidson, R. J. (2003). Cortisol variation in humans affects memory for emotionally-laden and neutral information. Behavioral Neuroscience, 117, 505-516. doi:10.1037/0735-7044.117.3.505
Davidson, R. J., Kabat-Zinn, J., Schumacher, J., Rosenkranz, M. A., Muller, D., Santorelli, S. F., Urbanowski, F., Harrington, A., Bonus, K., & Sheridan, J. F. (2003). Alterations in brain and immune function produced by mindfulness meditation. Psychosomatic Medicine, 65, 564-570. doi:10.1097/01.PSY.0000077505.67574.E3
Jackson, D. C., Mueller, C. J., Dolski, I., Dalton, K. M., Nitschke, J. B., Urry, H. L., Rosenkranz, M. A., Ryff, C. D., Singer, B. H., & Davidson, R. J. (2003). Now you feel it, now you don't: Frontal EEG asymmetry and individual differences in emotion regulation. Psychological Science, 14, 612-617. doi:10.1046/j.0956-7976.2003.psci_1473.x
Rosenkranz, M. A., Jackson, D. C, Dalton K. M., Dolski, I., Ryff, C. D., Singer, B. H., Muller, D., Kalin, N. H., & Davidson, R. J. (2003). Affective style and in vivo immune response: Neurobehavioral mechanisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100, 11148-11152. doi:10.1073/pnas.1534743100 PMCID: PMC196942