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Cardiac autonomic control buffers blood pressure variability responses to challenge: a psychophysiologic model of coronary artery diseaseR P Sloan
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Psychosom Med 61:58-68. 1999..Together, these data suggest a coherent, testable psychophysiological model of CAD. In this article, we review these data and make recommendations for research to examine the model...
Impact of aerobic training on cardiovascular reactivity to and recovery from challengeRichard P Sloan
Division of Behavioral Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, 1150 St Nicholas Avenue, Suite 121, New York, NY 10032, USA
Psychosom Med 73:134-41. 2011..To test the hypothesis that aerobic, but not strength, training would lead to attenuated reactivity to and more rapid recovery from cognitive and orthostatic challenge and that deconditioning would reverse this effect...
Socioeconomic status and health: is parasympathetic nervous system activity an intervening mechanism?Richard P Sloan
Behavioral Medicine Program, Columbia University Medical Center, Box 427, 622 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA
Int J Epidemiol 34:309-15. 2005..The link between socioeconomic status (SES) and health is widely recognized but the pathophysiologic mechanisms are not well understood. We tested the hypothesis that parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) regulation is one such mechanism...
Science, medicine, and intercessory prayerRichard P Sloan
Behavioral Medicine Program, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
Perspect Biol Med 49:504-14. 2006..Finally, these studies claim findings incompatible with current views of the physical universe and consciousness. Unless these problems are solved, studies of IP should not be conducted...
RR interval variability is inversely related to inflammatory markers: the CARDIA studyRichard P Sloan
Behavioral Medicine Program, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
Mol Med 13:178-84. 2007..These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that diminished descending vagal anti-inflammatory signals can allow cytokine overproduction in humans...
Aerobic exercise attenuates inducible TNF production in humansRichard P Sloan
Division of Behavioral Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Appl Physiol 103:1007-11. 2007..001) decreases in TNF release only in the H group. These data suggest that in healthy young adults, a 12-wk high-intensity aerobic training program downregulates blood monocyte production of stimulated cytokine release...
Cardiac autonomic control and the effects of age, race, and sex: the CARDIA studyRichard P Sloan
Behavioral Medicine Program, Columbia University Medical Center, New York NY 10032, USA
Auton Neurosci 139:78-85. 2008..Similarly, cardiac autonomic regulation, measured by RR interval variability (RRV), is associated with risk. The relationship among these variables is unclear...
The effect of aerobic training and cardiac autonomic regulation in young adultsRichard P Sloan
Division of Behavioral Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, 1150 St Nicholas Ave, Suite 121, New York, NY 10032, USA
Am J Public Health 99:921-8. 2009..We tested the effect of aerobic exercise on autonomic regulation of the heart in healthy young adults...
Cardiac autonomic control and treatment of hostility: a randomized controlled trialRichard P Sloan
Division of Behavioral Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
Psychosom Med 72:1-8. 2010..To test whether reduction in hostility increases autonomic regulation of the heart...
Claims about religious involvement and health outcomesRichard P Sloan
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York 10032, USA
Ann Behav Med 24:14-21. 2002..We conclude that there is little empirical basis for assertions that religious involvement or activity is associated with beneficial health outcomes...
Hostility, gender, and cardiac autonomic controlR P Sloan
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Psychosom Med 63:434-40. 2001..These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that hostile individuals experience multiple stressful interpersonal transactions each day, resulting in overall lower HF power during the day but not at night...
Race, cardiovascular reactivity, and preterm delivery among active-duty military womenMaureen Hatch
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Epidemiology 17:178-82. 2006..Rates of preterm delivery in the United States are higher in black women compared with whites. In this study, we examined cardiovascular reactivity and risk of preterm delivery among black and white military women...
Effects of desipramine on autonomic input to the heartB T Walsh
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 38:1186-92. 1999..To examine the impact of age on the effects of desipramine (DMI) on autonomic input to the heart...
Changes in autonomic regulation with age: implications for psychopharmacologic treatments in children and adolescentsC A Galanter
New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, New York, USA
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 9:257-65. 1999..Parasympathetic changes, as reflected by HPV, do not. In light of these findings, more research is needed on children's and adolescents' relative cardiac risk with psychotropic medications as opposed to adults'...
Mixed-effects models in psychophysiologyE Bagiella
Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Psychophysiology 37:13-20. 2000..We described mixed-effects modeling and illustrated its applicability with a simple example...
Vagal rebound and recovery from psychological stressE S Mezzacappa
Behavioral Medicine Program, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032 3784, USA
Psychosom Med 63:650-7. 2001..To characterize cardiovascular recovery and examine the possible relationship of vagal activity and reflexes to risk for heart disease...
Cerebral activation, hostility, and cardiovascular control during mental stressP A Shapiro
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, Box 427, 622 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Psychosom Res 48:485-91. 2000..This pilot study examined cardiovascular and cerebral blood flow responses to stress in subjects with high and low levels of trait hostility...
Physiologic responses to cognitive challenge during pregnancy: effects of task and repeat testingC Monk
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, 622 West 168th St, New York, NY 10032, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 40:149-59. 2001....
Enhanced stress reactivity in paediatric anxiety disorders: implications for future cardiovascular healthC Monk
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, NY 10032, USA
Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 4:199-206. 2001..As such, the current data suggest that the presence of an anxiety disorder may identify youth who exhibit autonomic profiles that place them at risk for cardiac disease...
Heart rate variability in depressive and anxiety disordersJ M Gorman
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
Am Heart J 140:77-83. 2000..Hence there is potential for the treatment of psychiatric disorders to affect positively the development and course of cardiovascular disease...
An in vivo correlate of exercise-induced neurogenesis in the adult dentate gyrusAna C Pereira
The Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer s Disease and the Aging Brain, Department of Neurology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:5638-43. 2007....
Relation between depression after coronary artery bypass surgery and 12-month outcome: a prospective studyI Connerney
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Lancet 358:1766-71. 2001..We have assessed the effect of depression on outcomes after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery...
Attendance at religious services, health, and the lessons of trinityRichard P Sloan
Psychosom Med 69:493-4. 2007
Religious involvement and health outcomes among older persons in TaiwanD M Yeager
Department of Theology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
Soc Sci Med 63:2228-41. 2006..Consequently, we question whether the purported health benefits are attributable to religion or to social activity in general...
Cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway activity and High Mobility Group Box-1 (HMGB1) serum levels in patients with rheumatoid arthritisRichard S Goldstein
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, and Department of Emergency Medicine, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA
Mol Med 13:210-5. 2007....
Fetal heart rate reactivity differs by women's psychiatric status: an early marker for developmental risk?Catherine Monk
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 43:283-90. 2004..To determine whether there are differences in fetal heart rate (FHR) reactivity associated with women's psychiatric status...
Effects of women's stress-elicited physiological activity and chronic anxiety on fetal heart rateCatherine Monk
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, and Behavioral Medicine Program, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 24:32-8. 2003..This indicates that variations in women's emotion-based physiological activity can affect the fetus and may be centrally important to fetal development...
Low arterial compliance in young African-American malesAdrienne S Zion
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mailman School of Public Health, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 630 West 168th Street, Box 38, New York, NY 10032
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285:H457-62. 2003..These alterations may be antecedent markers of disease and valuable in the detection of degenerative cardiovascular processes in individuals at risk...
Evaluation of blood pressure and baroreflex sensitivity by radial artery tonometry versus finger arteriolar photoplethysmographyAdrienne S Zion
Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Teachers College Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Am J Hypertens 16:371-4. 2003..Englewood, CO), a device that is no longer manufactured. Currently, beat-to-beat BP are obtained from the radial artery using the Colin tonometer...
Deriving heart period variability from blood pressure waveformsPaula S McKinley
Behavioral Medicine Program, Dept of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Univ, 622 W 168th St, PH Bldg Suite 11 460 stem New York, NY 10032, USA
J Appl Physiol 95:1431-8. 2003..High-frequency HPV indexes were somewhat less reliably computed. In conclusion, in healthy adults, with the use of appropriate methods, BP waveforms can produce reliable indexes of HPV...
Hostility, interpersonal interactions, and ambulatory blood pressureElizabeth Brondolo
Department of Psychology, St John s University, New York, NY, USA
Psychosom Med 65:1003-11. 2003..This study examined aspects of the transactional model of hostility and health by investigating relationships among hostility, interpersonal interactions, and ambulatory blood pressure in a healthy community sample...
Religious attendance as a predictor of survival in the EPESE cohortsEmilia Bagiella
Division of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Int J Epidemiol 34:443-51. 2005..Although most of the early literature consists of studies with methodological flaws, some recent well-conducted reports show that religious attendance is associated with reduced mortality in selected subgroups and populations...
New approach to the statistical analysis of cardiovascular dataMichele R Norton
Dept. of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Appl Physiol 98:2298-303. 2005..We conclude that this approach may allow a more thorough analysis of cardiovascular parameters that are measured under different experimental conditions, such as blood pressure or heart rate variability...
The literature on religion and health: caveat emptorRichard P Sloan
Behavioral Medicine Program, Columbia University Medical Center, 622 West 168th St, Box 427, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Pastoral Care Counsel 58:271-6. 2004
Risk factors, confounding, and the illusion of statistical controlNicholas J S Christenfeld
Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0109, USA
Psychosom Med 66:868-75. 2004..Statistical adjustment serves a useful function, but it cannot transform observational studies into natural experiments, and involves far more subjective judgment than many users realize...
Temporal stability of acute stress-induced changes in leukocyte subsets and cellular adhesion molecules in older adultsKaren A Adler
Department of Psychiatry, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Brain Behav Immun 16:262-74. 2002..The level of temporal stability achieved is comparable to that seen previously in younger adults, indicating that acute psychosocial stress produces reliable changes in circulating leukocytes and cell adhesion molecules in older adults...
The MANTRA II studyRichard P Sloan
Lancet 366:1769-70; author reply 1770-1. 2005
Research Grants
- Exercise and Inflammation: Autonomic, Affective & Cellular MechanismsRichard P Sloan; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- Cytokine-induced depression & the serotonin transporterRichard Sloan; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Behavioral Ecology and Hostility & Cardiac ANS ControlRichard Sloan; Fiscal Year: 2007..b>Richard Sloan and colleagues at Columbia University...
- Autonomic Control & Birth Outcomes in Minority WomenRichard Sloan; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- HOSTILITY REDUCTION AND AUTONOMIC CONTROL OF THE HEARTRichard Sloan; Fiscal Year: 2004....
- CARDIOVASCULAR AUTONOMIC CONTROL IN STRESS AND ANXIETYRichard Sloan; Fiscal Year: 2002..In this application, 5 experimental tests of this model are proposed. ..
- PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC STRESS, EXERCISE AND AUTONOMIC CONTROLRichard Sloan; Fiscal Year: 2001..A series of hypotheses will test the impact of aerobic conditioning on autonomic control of the heart, BPV responses to challenge, mood, and BPV throughout the day. ..
