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Peer-Reviewed Publications
Browse all of Dr. Epel’s collaborative publications.
Guevarra DA, Dutcher EG, Crum AJ, Prather AA, Epel ES. Examining the Association of Vaccine-Related Mindsets and Post-Vaccination Antibody Response, Side Effects, and Affective Outcomes. Brain Behav Immun Health. 2024 Jul 16;40:100818. doi: 10.1016/j.bbih.2024.100818. PMID: 39165308; PMCID: PMC11334734.
2024
Aschbacher K, Mather M, Lehrer P, Gevirtz R, Epel E, Peiper NC. Real-time heart rate variability biofeedback amplitude during a large-scale digital mental health intervention differed by age, gender, and mental and physical health. Psychophysiology. 2024 Mar 7:e14533. doi: 10.1111/psyp.14533. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38454612.
2024
Carandang RR, Epel E, Radin R, Lewis J, Ickovics J, Cunningham S. Association between mindful and practical eating skills and eating behaviors among racially diverse pregnant women in four selected clinical sites in the United States. Nutr Health. 2024 Apr 7:2601060241246353. doi: 10.1177/02601060241246353. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38584400.
2024
Surachman A, Hamlat E, Zannas AS, Horvath S, Laraia B, Epel E. Grandparents' Educational Attainment is Associated with Grandchildren's Epigenetic-Based Age Acceleration in the National Growth and Health Study. Soc Sci Med. 2024 Aug;355:117142. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117142. Epub 2024 Jul 14. PMID: 39106784.
2024
Jacobs LM, Schmidt LA, Schillinger D, Schmidt JM, Alegria KE, Parrett B, Pickett A, Epel ES. Did a workplace sugar-sweetened beverage sales ban reduce anxiety-related SSB consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic? Public Health Nutr. 2024 May 3:1-14. doi: 10.1017/S1368980024000995. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38698591.
2024
Prather AA, Dutcher EG, Robinson J, Lin J, Blackburn E, Hecht FM, Mason AE, Fromer E, Merino B, Frazier R, O'Bryan J, Drury S, Epel ES. Predictors of long-term neutralizing antibody titers following COVID-19 vaccination by three vaccine types: the BOOST study. Sci Rep. 2023 May 9;13(1):6505. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-33320-x.
2023
Jones-Mason K, Coccia M, Alkon A, Melanie Thomas KC, Laraia B, Adler N, Epel ES, Bush NR. Parental sensitivity modifies the associations between maternal prenatal stress exposure, autonomic nervous system functioning and infant temperament in a diverse, low-income sample. Attach Hum Dev. 2023 Sep 25:1-37. doi: 10.1080/14616734.2023.2257669.
2023
Sturm G, Karan KR, Monzel AS, Santhanam B, Taivassalo T, Bris C, Ware SA, Cross M, Towheed A, Higgins-Chen A, McManus MJ, Cardenas A, Lin J, Epel ES, Rahman S, Vissing J, Grassi B, Levine M, Horvath S, Haller RG, Lenaers G, Wallace DC, St-Onge MP, Tavazoie S, Procaccio V, Kaufman BA, Seifert EL, Hirano M, Picard M. OxPhos Defects Cause Hypermetabolism and Reduce Lifespan in Cells and in Patients with Mitochondrial Diseases. Commun Biol. 2023 Jan 12;6(1):22.
2023
Laraia, B., Brownell, K., Friebur, R., Perera, R., Brown, E., Mayer, S. E., Feng, I., Clermont, S., Ritchie, L. D., & Epel, E. (2023). Cohort profile: the longitudinal National Growth and Health Study (NGHS) of black and white girls from Northern California tracking how behavioural and psychosocial risk factors predict cardiovascular risk and biological ageing in midlife and in offspring. BMJ open, 13(11), e072957. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-072957
2023
Martin SL, Cardel MI, Carson TL, Hill JO, Stanley T, Grinspoon S, Stegar F, Blackman Carr LT, Ashby-Thompson M, Stewart D, Ard J; Nutrition Obesity Research Center Taskforce to Advance the Careers of Researchers from Groups Underrepresented in Academia; Stanford FC. Increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the fields of nutrition and obesity: A roadmap to equity in academia. Am J Clin Nutr. 2023 Feb 9:S0002-9165(23)01565-4.
2023
Crosswell AD, Mayer SE, Whitehurst LN, Picard M, Zebarjadian S, Epel ES. Deep rest: An integrative model of how contemplative practices combat stress and enhance the body's restorative capacity. Psychol Rev. 2024 Jan;131(1):247-270. doi: 10.1037/rev0000453. Epub 2023 Dec 25. PMID: 38147050; PMCID: PMC11003855.
2023
Chow FC, Mundada NS, Abohashem S, La Joie R, Iaccarino L, Arechiga VM, Swaminathan S, Rabinovici GD, Epel ES, Tawakol A, Hsue PY. Psychological stress is associated with arterial inflammation in people living with treated HIV infection. Brain Behav Immun. 2023 Jun 25;113:21-28. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2023.06.019.
2023
Parker JE, Enders CK, Fitzpatrick SL, Mujahid MS, Laraia BA, Epel ES, Tomiyama AJ. Longitudinal associations between adolescent skin color satisfaction and adult health outcomes in Black women. Health Psychol. 2024 Apr;43(4):289-297. doi: 10.1037/hea0001336. Epub 2023 Dec 7. PMID: 38059930; PMCID: PMC10939857.
2023
Bobba-Alves N, Sturm G, Lin J, Ware SA, Karan KR, Monzel AS, Bris C, Procaccio V, Lenaers G, Higgins-Chen A, Levine M, Horvath S, Santhanam BS, Kaufman BA, Hirano M, Epel E, Picard M. Cellular allostatic load is linked to increased energy expenditure and accelerated biological aging. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2023 Jun 14;155:106322. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106322.
2023
Buro AW, Baskin M, Miller D, Ward T, West DS, Gore LR, Gwede CK, Epel E, Carson TL. Rationale and study protocol for a randomized controlled trial to determine the effectiveness of a culturally relevant, stress management enhanced behavioral weight loss intervention on weight loss outcomes of black women. BMC Public Health.
2022 Jan 28;22(1):193
2022
Lu AT, Binder AM, Zhang J, Yan Q, Reiner AP, Cox SR, Corley J, Harris SE, Kuo PL, Moore AZ, Bandinelli S, Stewart JD, Wang C, Hamlat EJ, Epel ES, Schwartz JD, Whitsel EA, Correa A, Ferrucci L, Marioni RE, Horvath S. DNA methylation GrimAge version 2. Aging (Albany NY). 2022 Dec 14;14(23):9484-9549.
2022
Mason AE, Hecht FM, Davis SK, Natale JL, Hartogensis W, Damaso N, Claypool KT, Dilchert S, Dasgupta S, Purawat S, Viswanath VK, Klein A, Chowdhary A, Fisher SM, Anglo C, Puldon KY, Veasna D, Prather JG, Pandya LS, Fox LM, Busch M, Giordano C, Mercado BK, Song J, Jaimes R, Baum BS, Telfer BA, Philipson CW, Collins PP, Rao AA, Wang EJ, Bandi RH, Choe BJ, Epel ES, Epstein SK, Krasnoff JB, Lee MB, Lee SW, Lopez GM, Mehta A, Melville LD, Moon TS, Mujica-Parodi LR, NoelKM, Orosco MA, Rideout JM, Robishaw JD, Rodriguez RM, Shah KH, Siegal JH, Gupta A, Altintas I, Smarr BL. Author Correction: Detection of COVID-19 using multimodal data from a wearable device: results from the first TemPredict Study. Sci Rep. 2022 Mar 16;12(1):4568. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-
08723-x. Erratum for: Sci Rep. 2022 Mar 2;12(1):3463.
2022
Hooker AR, Sagui-Henson SJ, Daubenmier J, Moran PJ, Hartogensis W, Acree M, Kristeller J, Epel ES, Mason AE, Hecht FM. Effects of a Mindfulness-Based Weight Loss Intervention on Long-Term Psychological Well-Being Among Adults with Obesity: Secondary Analyses from the Supporting Health by Integrating Nutrition and Exercise (SHINE) Trial. Mindfulness (N Y). 2022 Sep;13(9):2227-2242.
2022
Seritan AL, Hasser C, Burke MG, Bussmann GL, Charlesworth A, Cooper R, Fortuna LR, Herbst ED, Jayaratne A, Richards A, Stuart BK, Epel E. The Climate Change and Mental Health Task Force: One Academic Psychiatry Department's Efforts to Heed the Call to Action. Acad Psychiatry. 2022 Mar 2:1–2. doi: 10.1007/s40596-022-01606-3.
2022
Mason AE, Hecht FM, Davis SK, Natale JL, Hartogensis W, Damaso N, Claypool KT, Dilchert S, Dasgupta S, Purawat S, Viswanath VK, Klein A, Chowdhary A, Fisher SM, Anglo C, Puldon KY, Veasna D, Prather JG, Pandya LS, Fox LM, Busch M, Giordano C, Mercado BK, Song J, Jaimes R, Baum BS, Telfer BA, Philipson CW, Collins PP, Rao AA, Wang EJ, Bandi RH, Choe BJ, Epel ES, Epstein SK, Krasnoff JB, Lee MB, Lee SW, Lopez GM, Mehta A, Melville LD, Moon TS, Mujica-Parodi LR, Noel KM, Orosco MA, Rideout JM, Robishaw JD, Rodriguez RM, Shah KH, Siegal JH, Gupta A, Altintas I, Smarr BL. Detection of COVID-19 using multimodal data from a wearable device: results from the first TemPredict Study. Sci Rep. 2022 Mar 2.
2022
Daubenmier, Jennifer PhD; Chao, Maria T. DrPH, MPA; Hartogensis, Wendy PhD, MPH; Liu, Rhianon BA; Moran, Patricia J. PhD; Acree, Michael C. PhD; Kristeller, Jean PhD; Epel, Elissa S. PhD; Hecht, Frederick M. MD. Exploratory Analysis of Racial/Ethnic and Educational Differences in a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Mindfulness-Based Weight Loss Intervention. Psychosomatic Medicine: 7/8 2021 - Volume 83 - Issue 6 - p 503-514.
2021
Price CA, Medici V, Nunez MV, Lee V, Sigala DM, Benyam Y, Keim NL, Mason AE, Chen SY, Parenti M, Slupsky C, Epel ES, Havel PJ, Stanhope KL. A Pilot Study Comparing the Effects of Consuming 100% Orange Juice or Sucrose-Sweetened Beverage on Risk Factors for Cardiometabolic Disease in Women. Nutrients. 2021 Feb 26;13(3):760.
2021
Madison AA, Belury MA, AndridgeR, Renna ME, Rosie Shrout M, Malarkey WB, Lin J, Epel ES, Kiecolt-Glaser JK. Omega-3 supplementation and stress reactivity of cellular aging biomarkers: an ancillary substudy of a randomized, controlled trial in midlife adults. Mol Psychiatry. 2021 Jul;26(7):3034-3042.
2021
Aschbacher K, Hagan M, Steine IM, Rivera L, Cole S, Baccarella A, Epel ES, Lieberman A, Bush NR. Adversity in early life and pregnancy are immunologically distinct from total life adversity: macrophage-associated phenotypes in women exposed to interpersonal violence.Transl Psychiatry. 2021 Jul 20;11(1):391.
2021
Mayer SE, Surachman A, Prather AA, Puterman E, Delucchi KL, Irwin MR, Danese A, Almeida DM, Epel ES. The long shadow of childhood trauma for depression in midlife: examining daily psychological stress processes as a persistentrisk pathway. Psychol Med. 2021 Mar 26:1-10. doi: 10.1017/S0033291721000921.
2021
Mehta SS, Applebaum KM, James-Todd T, Coleman-Phox K, Adler N, Laraia B, Epel E, Parry E, Wang M, Park JS, Zota AR. Associations between sociodemographic characteristics and exposures to PBDEs, OH-PBDEs, PCBs, and PFASs in a diverse, overweight population of pregnant women. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2020 Jan;30(1):42-55.
2020
Chae DH, Wang Y, Martz CD, Slopen N, Yip T, Adler NE, Fuller-Rowell TE, Lin J, Matthews KA, Brody GH, Spears EC, Puterman E, Epel ES. Racial discrimination and telomere shortening among African Americans: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. Health Psychol. 2020 Mar;39(3):209-219
2020
Mason, A. E., Saslow, L., Moran, P. J., Kim, S., Abousleiman, H., Hartman, A., … & Hecht, F. (2019). Examining the Effects of Mindful Eating Training on Adherence to a Carbohydrate-Restricted Diet in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes (the DELISH Study): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR research protocols, 8(2), e11002.
2019
Daubenmier J, Epel ES, Moran PJ, Thompson J, Mason AE, Acree M, Goldman V, Kristeller J, Hecht FM, Mendes WB. A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Mindfulness-Based Weight Loss Intervention on Cardiovascular Reactivity to Social-Evaluative Threat Among Adults with Obesity. Mindfulness (N Y). 2019 Dec;10(12):2583-2595.
2019
Mason, A. E., Adler, J. M., Puterman, E., Lakmazaheri, A., Brucker, M., Aschbacher, K., & Epel, E. S. (2019). Stress resilience: Narrative identity may buffer the longitudinal effects of chronic caregiving stress on mental health and telomere shortening. Brain, behavior, and immunity, 77, 101-109.
2019
Conklin, Q. A., King, B. G., Zanesco, A. P., Lin, J., Hamidi, A. B., Pokorny, J. J., … & Epel, E. S. (2018). Corrigendum to” Insight meditation and telomere biology: The effects of intensive retreat and the moderating role of personality”[Brain Behav. Immun. 70 (2018) 233-245]. Brain, behavior, and immunity, 73, 736.
2018
Staffaroni, A. M., Tosun, D., Lin, J., Elahi, F. M., Casaletto, K. B., Wynn, M. J., … & Blackburn, E. H. (2018). Telomere attrition is associated with declines in medial temporal lobe volume and white matter microstructure in functionally independent older adults. Neurobiology of aging, 69, 68-75.
2018
Zota, A. R., Geller, R. J., Romano, L. E., Coleman-Phox, K., Adler, N. E., Parry, E., … & Epel, E. S. (2018). Association between persistent endocrine-disrupting chemicals (PBDEs, OH-PBDEs, PCBs, and PFASs) and biomarkers of inflammation and cellular aging during pregnancy and postpartum. Environment international, 115, 9-20.
2018
Fair, B., Mellon, S. H., Epel, E. S., Lin, J., Révész, D., Verhoeven, J. E., … & Mahan, L. (2017). Telomere length is inversely correlated with urinary stress hormone levels in healthy controls but not in un-medicated depressed individuals-preliminary findings. Journal of psychosomatic research, 99, 177-180.
2017
Bush, N. R., Jones-Mason, K., Coccia, M., Caron, Z., Alkon, A., Thomas, M., … & Epel, E. S. (2017). Effects of pre-and postnatal maternal stress on infant temperament and autonomic nervous system reactivity and regulation in a diverse, low-income population. Development and psychopathology, 29(5), 1553-1571.
2017
Hagan, M. J., Bush, N., Mendes, W. B., Arenander, J., Epel, E., & Puterman, E. (2017). Associations between childhood adversity and daily suppression and avoidance in response to stress in adulthood: can neurobiological sensitivity help explain this relationship?. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 30(2), 163-175.
2017
Adler, E., Dhruva, A., Moran, P. J., Daubenmier, J., Acree, M., Epel, E. S., … & Hecht, F. M. (2017). Impact of a mindfulness-based weight-loss intervention on sleep quality among adults with obesity: data from the SHINE randomized controlled trial. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 23(3), 188-195.
2017
Mason, A. E., Epel, E. S., Kristeller, J., Moran, P. J., Dallman, M., Lustig, R. H., … & Daubenmier, J. (2016). Effects of a mindfulness-based intervention on mindful eating, sweets consumption, and fasting glucose levels in obese adults: data from the SHINE randomized controlled trial. Journal of behavioral medicine, 39(2), 201-213.
2016
Mason, A. E., Epel, E. S., Aschbacher, K., Lustig, R. H., Acree, M., Kristeller, J., … & Laraia, B. (2016). Reduced reward-driven eating accounts for the impact of a mindfulness-based diet and exercise intervention on weight loss: Data from the SHINE randomized controlled trial. Appetite, 100, 86-93.
2016
Bersani, F. S., Wolkowitz, O. M., Lindqvist, D., Yehuda, R., Flory, J., Bierer, L. M., … & Epel, E. S. (2016). Global arginine bioavailability, a marker of nitric oxide synthetic capacity, is decreased in PTSD and correlated with symptom severity and markers of inflammation. Brain, behavior, and immunity, 52, 153-160.
2016
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