Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health
March 1, 2025
Elizabeth Vandenbogaart, Matthew Figueroa, Diana Winston et al.
1 citation
The symptom burden for patients with Long COVID-associated dysautonomia is high, yet there are currently no effective treatments. Mindfulness programs reduce psychological and physical symptoms as well as inflammatory gene expression in a variety of medical conditions. The study aim was to evaluate the effect of a six-week mindfulness program in women with Long COVID dysautonomia symptoms....
Brain, behavior, and immunity
October 1, 2024
Itay Ricon-Becker, Taylor N West, Barbara L. Fredrickson et al.
To address the challenge of predicting psychological response to a psychosocial intervention we tested the possibility that baseline gene expression profiles might provide information above and beyond baseline psychometric measures. The genomics strategy utilized individual level inferences of transcription factor activity to predict changes in loneliness and affect in response to two...
Mindfulness
May 1, 2022
Taylor N West, Jieni Zhou, Mary Brantley et al.
People raised in low socio-economic status (SES) households are at an increased risk for physical illness in adulthood. A shift in gene expression profiles in the immune system is one biological mechanism thought to account for elevated disease susceptibility, with a frequently-investigated profile being the conserved transcriptional response to adversity (CTRA), characterized by increased...
Brain Behavior and Immunity
April 12, 2022
Janine M. Dutcher, Steve W Cole, Adrian Williams et al.
29 citations
Mindfulness meditation training has been shown to be an effective stress reduction strategy, but less is known about its immunoregulatory impact. In a randomized controlled trial of stressed customer service workers, the present study tested whether a 30-day smartphone-based mindfulness meditation training program (compared to a problem-solving control program) would affect pro-inflammatory...