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Psychology Faculty
Chris Dunkel Schetter (Chair)
dunkel@psych.ucla.edu
http://health.psych.ucla.edu/CDS |
Stress processes in pregnancy and effects on maternal physical and mental health and infant health and development; biopsychosocial pathways to preterm delivery and low birthweight; cultural and socioeconomic influences on health and health disparities; social support. |
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Annette Stanton (Co-Director)
astanton@ucla.edu |
Stress processes in pregnancy and effects on maternal physical and mental health and infant health and development; biopsychosocial pathways to preterm delivery and low birthweight; cultural and socioeconomic influences on health and health disparities; social support. |
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Julienne Bower
jbower@ucla.edu |
Stress, coping, and health; benefit finding/post-traumatic growth; psychoneuroimmunology; mind-body interactions in cancer. |
Hector Myers
myers@psych.ucla.edu |
Biopsychosocial processes in stress and disease, racial/ethnic health disparities, health risk reduction interventions. |
Rena Repetti
repetti@psych.ucla.edu
http://repettilab.psych.ucla.edu |
Family social interaction; stress and coping processes; the interface between work and the family; child/adolescent social and emotional development within the family and peer contexts; naturalistic, daily report, and longitudinal research designs. |
Janet Tomiyama
tomiyama@psych.ucla.edu
http://www.dishlab.org |
Eating, stress, cellular aging (telomere/telomerase system), obesity, health disparities, weight stigma, comfort foods, behavioral economics, calorie restriction and dieting. |
Affiliated Faculty
Patricia Ganz
pganz@ucla.edu |
Cancer control from studies of individuals at risk for cancer to biopsychosocial studies of the late
effects of cancer treatment; cognitive effects of endocrine treatments for breast cancer; biobehavioral
interventions focused on reducing the risk of breast cancer recurrence. |
Michael Irwin
mirwin1@ucla.edu
http://www.cousinspni.org |
Interactions between behavior and immunity;
consequences of major depression and insomnia
on immune processes; reciprocal links between
inflammatory cytokines, depression and disordered sleep;
capacity of behavioral interventions to improve
insomnia and depressive symptoms in older adults. |
William J. McCarthy
wmccarth@ucla.edu
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Randomized controlled trials of health-related lifestyle change strategies applied to low-income, ethnic minority communities. Behaviors targeted for change include fruit and vegetable intake, increased daily physical activity and smoking cessation. |
Perry Nicassio
PNicassio@mednet.ucla.edu |
Development and implementation of behavioral interventions for patients with chronic illnesses;
role of illness cognition and coping processes in patients with arthritic conditions. |
George M. Slavich
gslavich@mednet.ucla.edu
http://www.uclastresslab.org
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Effects of social stressors on psychological and physical health, particularly depression; neural regulation of inflammatory responses to social stress; social signal transduction; social genomics. |
Lonnie Zeltzer
LZeltzer@mednet.ucla.edu
www.healthnet.ucla.edu/pedspain
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Pediatric chronic pain, end of life care in children, complementary and alternative therapies,
and quality of life in survivors of childhood cancer; relationship between anxiety and pain;
genetic contributors to pain vulnerability; parent/child communication at end of life in children. |
Former Affiliated Faculty
Tara Gruenewald
TGruenewald@mednet.ucla.edu |
Social relationships and health; impact of social-evaluative threat on mental and physical well-being; social status and health;
allostatic processes; psychoneuroimmunology; frailty; aging and health;
biopsychosocial processes involved in maintaining health across the life course |
Bob Kaplan
rmkaplan@ucla.edu |
Methods for quantifying the benefits of a health care interventions |
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