Elissa Epel, PhD
Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

She is the Director of the Aging, Metabolism, and Emotions Center (www.amecenter.ucsf.edu), Associate Director of the Center for Health and Community and the NIDDK UCSF NORC, member of the National Academy of Medicine, and past President of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research and Co-Chair of the Mind and Life Institute Steering Council. Epel is leading a Mental Health Council, as part of the UC wide Center for Climate, Healthy and Equity, focusing on climate distress to activation.

Elissa studies psychological, social, and behavioral processes related to chronic psychological stress and health, and how to apply this basic science to scalable interventions that can reach vulnerable populations. She studies processes that accelerate biological aging, with a focus on toxic stress, overeating and effects on metabolism, and cellular aging (including the telomere/telomerase maintenance system). She and her colleagues develop and test interventions that combine behavioral, psychological, and mindfulness training. Currently, she is testing short term interventions to improve stress resilience and physiological homeostatic capacity, to slow aging. She co-leads studies funded by NIA, NCCIH, NIDDK, and NHLBI, including an NIH funded national Stress Network, and an Emotional Well Being Network, and has been involved in National Institute Health initiatives on reversibility of early life adversity, and Science of Behavior Change.

Epel studied psychology and psychobiology at Stanford University, and clinical and health psychology at Yale University. She completed a clinical internship at the Palo Alto Veterans Healthcare System and an NIMH postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF. Epel has received several awards including the APA Early Career Award, Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research Neal Miller Young Investigator Award, and the 2017 Silver Innovator Award from the Alliance for Aging Research. She has been named a highly cited researcher since 2019 (top 1% of papers cited based on Web of Science) and in 2022 among the top 10% in NIH funding in psychiatry nationally.

Epel co-wrote with nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn, The Telomere Effect (2017), a NYT bestseller under Science, which is translated in 30 languages. In 2022, she wrote The Stress Prescription, on science based fundamental practices to reduce stress and increase well being. Her personal website is www.elissaepel.com.

Her work has been featured in venues such as TEDMED, NBC’s Today Show, CBS’s Morning Show, 60 minutes, National Public Radio, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Wisdom 2.0, Health 2.0, and in many science documentaries. Epel led the creation of expert written web-based resources and short videos for pandemics and other crises, including psychological first aid and mental health issues at https://cope.ucsf.edu.

• Association between mindful and practical eating skills and eating behaviors among racially diverse pregnant women in four selected clinical sites in the United States.
  Nutrition and health 2024 Carandang RR, Epel E, Radin R, Lewis J, Ickovics J, Cunningham S
• COMMENTARY: Foundational Social Geroscience: Social Stress, Reproductive Health, and Lifecourse Aging across mammals.
  Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2024 Epel E
• Food insecurity, poor diet, and metabolic measures: The roles of stress and cortisol.
  Appetite 2024 Chiu DT, Parker JE, Wiley CR, Epel ES, Laraia BA, Leung CW, Tomiyama AJ
• 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 Aschbacher K, Mather M, Lehrer P, Gevirtz R, Epel E, Peiper NC
• Deep rest: An integrative model of how contemplative practices combat stress and enhance the body's restorative capacity.
  Psychological review 2023 Crosswell AD, Mayer SE, Whitehurst LN, Picard M, Zebarjadian S, Epel ES
• Longitudinal associations between adolescent skin color satisfaction and adult health outcomes in Black women.
  Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association 2023 Parker JE, Enders CK, Fitzpatrick SL, Mujahid MS, Laraia BA, Epel ES, Tomiyama AJ
• Author Correction: Prosociality should be a public health priority.
  Nature human behaviour 2023 Kubzansky LD, Epel ES, Davidson RJ
• Prosociality should be a public health priority.
  Nature human behaviour 2023 Kubzansky LD, Epel ES, Davidson RJ
• Parental sensitivity modifies the associations between maternal prenatal stress exposure, autonomic nervous system functioning and infant temperament in a diverse, low-income sample.
  Attachment & human development 2023 Jones-Mason K, Coccia M, Alkon A, Melanie Thomas KC, Laraia B, Adler N, Epel ES, Bush NR
• 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 2023 Laraia B, Brownell K, Friebur R, Perera R, Brown E, Mayer SE, Feng I, Clermont S, Ritchie LD, Epel E
• The more symptoms the better? Covid-19 vaccine side effects and long-term neutralizing antibody response.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2023 Dutcher EG, Epel ES, Mason AE, Hecht FM, Robinson JE, Drury SS, Prather AA
• Are pregnancy and parity associated with telomere length? A systematic review.
  BMC pregnancy and childbirth 2023 Houminer-Klepar N, Bord S, Epel E, Baron-Epel O
• Working Status of First-Time Postpartum Mothers and Telomere Length-A 1-Year Prospective Study.
  Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 2023 Houminer-Klepar N, Bord S, Epel E, Lin J, Sultan L, Baron-Epel O
• Adverse Childhood Experiences and BMI: Lifecourse Associations in a Black-White U.S. Women Cohort.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2023 Chiu DT, Brown EM, Tomiyama AJ, Brownell KE, Abrams B, Mujahid MS, Epel ES, Laraia BA
• Envisioning the Future of Well-Being Efforts for Health Care Workers-Successes and Lessons Learned From the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  JAMA psychiatry 2023 Mangurian C, Fitelson E, Devlin M, Pumar M, Epel E, Dahiya P, Mayer LES, Jackson-Triche M
• Controlled trial of a workplace sales ban on sugar-sweetened beverages.
  Public health nutrition 2023 Schmidt JM, Epel ES, Jacobs LM, Mason AE, Parrett B, Pickett AM, Mousli LM, Schmidt LA
• Acute and Chronic Stress Associations With Blood Pressure: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study on an App-Based Platform.
  Psychosomatic medicine 2023 Mak HW, Gordon AM, Prather AA, Epel ES, Mendes WB
• Perceived Stress and Depressive Symptoms Are Associated With Emotional Eating but Not Nutritional Intake During Pregnancy: A Prospective Cohort Study.
  Journal of midwifery & women's health 2023 Carandang RR, Epel E, Radin R, Lewis JB, Ickovics JR, Cunningham SD
• Psychological stress is associated with arterial inflammation in people living with treated HIV infection.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2023 Chow FC, Mundada NS, Abohashem S, La Joie R, Iaccarino L, Arechiga VM, Swaminathan S, Rabinovici GD, Epel ES, Tawakol A, Hsue PY
• Association between maternal eating and young child feeding in a community sample.
  BMC pregnancy and childbirth 2023 Singh S, Cordeiro A, Epel E, Coccia M, Laraia B, Adler N, Bush NR
• Shorter telomere length predicts poor antidepressant response and poorer cardiometabolic indices in major depression.
  Scientific reports 2023 Rampersaud R, Wu GWY, Reus VI, Lin J, Blackburn EH, Epel ES, Hough CM, Mellon SH, Wolkowitz OM
• Early life adversity predicts an accelerated cellular aging phenotype through early timing of puberty.
  Psychological medicine 2023 Hamlat EJ, Neilands TB, Laraia B, Zhang J, Lu AT, Lin J, Horvath S, Epel ES
• Cellular allostatic load is linked to increased energy expenditure and accelerated biological aging.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 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
• A Lens on Caregiver Stress in Cancer: Longitudinal Investigation of Cancer-Related Stress and Telomere Length Among Family Caregivers of Adult Patients With Cancer.
  Psychosomatic medicine 2023 Kim Y, Lin J, Epel ES, Carver CS
• Adolescent BMI trajectory and associations with adult metabolic syndrome and offspring obesity.
  Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2023 Frank DM, Bradshaw PT, Mujahid M, Epel E, Lararia BA
• Predictors of long-term neutralizing antibody titers following COVID-19 vaccination by three vaccine types: the BOOST study.
  Scientific reports 2023 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
• Behavioral Medicine Research Council (BMRC) Statement Papers: A New Approach to Consensus Building in Behavioral Medicine Science.
  Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine 2023 Ruiz JM, Bacon SL, Bennett GG, Brondolo E, Czajkowski SM, Davidson KW, Epel ES, Revenson TA
• Behavioral Medicine Research Council (BMRC) Statement Papers: A New Approach to Consensus Building in Behavioral Medicine Science.
  Psychosomatic medicine 2023 Ruiz JM, Bacon SL, Bennett GG, Brondolo E, Czajkowski SM, Davidson KW, Epel ES, Revenson TA, Behavioral Medicine Research Council
• Behavioral Medicine Research Council (BMRC) statement papers: A new approach to consensus building in behavioral medicine science.
  Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association 2023 Ruiz JM, Bacon SL, Bennett GG, Brondolo E, Czajkowski SM, Davidson KW, Epel ES, Revenson TA
• Impact of digital meditation on work stress and health outcomes among adults with overweight: A randomized controlled trial.
  PloS one 2023 Radin RM, Epel ES, Mason AE, Vaccaro J, Fromer E, Guan J, Prather AA
• Longitudinal Stability of Disordered-Eating Symptoms From Age 12 to 40 in Black and White Women.
  Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science 2023 Parker JE, Levinson JA, Hunger JM, Enders CK, Laraia BA, Epel ES, Tomiyama AJ
• OxPhos defects cause hypermetabolism and reduce lifespan in cells and in patients with mitochondrial diseases.
  Communications biology 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…
• DNA methylation GrimAge version 2.
  Aging 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…
• Intergenerational effects of maternal lifetime stressor exposure on offspring telomere length in Black and White women.
  Psychological medicine 2022 Mayer SE, Guan J, Lin J, Hamlat E, Parker JE, Brownell K, Price C, Mujahid M, Tomiyama AJ, Slavich GM, Laraia BA, Epel ES
• Long-term effects of a prenatal mindfulness intervention on depressive symptoms in a diverse sample of women.
  Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 2022 Roubinov DS, Epel ES, Coccia M, Coleman-Phox K, Vieten C, Adler NE, Laraia B, Bush NR
• Corrigendum to "Association of subjective social status with epigenetic aging among Black and White women" [Psychoneuroendocrinology, 141 (2022), 105748].
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2022 Hamlat EJ, Adler NE, Laraia B, Surachman A, Lu AT, Zhang J, Horvath S, Epel ES
• Dimensions of childhood adversity differentially affect biological aging in major depression.
  Translational psychiatry 2022 Rampersaud R, Protsenko E, Yang R, Reus V, Hammamieh R, Wu GWY, Epel E, Jett M, Gautam A, Mellon SH, Wolkowitz OM
• Correction to: The Climate Change and Mental Health Task Force: One Academic Psychiatry Department's Efforts to Heed the Call to Action.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 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
• Is it me or my child? The association between maternal depression and children's behavior problems in mothers and their children with or without autism.
  Family process 2022 Roubinov D, Don B, Blades R, Epel E
• 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 2022 Hooker AR, Sagui-Henson SJ, Daubenmier J, Moran PJ, Hartogensis W, Acree M, Kristeller J, Epel ES, Mason AE, Hecht FM
• Advocacy to support climate and health policies: recommended actions for the Society of Behavioral Medicine.
  Translational behavioral medicine 2022 Mendoza-Vasconez AS, McLaughlin E, Sallis JF, Maibach E, Epel E, Bennett G, Nogueira L, Thayer J, Dietz WH
• The Role of Behavioral Medicine in Addressing Climate Change-Related Health Inequities.
  Translational behavioral medicine 2022 Nogueira L, White KE, Bell B, Alegria KE, Bennett G, Edmondson D, Epel E, Holman EA, Kronish IM, Thayer J
• Association of Food Insecurity and Food Addiction Symptoms: A Secondary Analysis of Two Samples of Low-Income Female Adults.
  Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 2022 Parnarouskis L, Gearhardt AN, Mason AE, Adler NE, Laraia BA, Epel ES, Leung CW
• The Psychological Distress of Food Insecurity: A Qualitative Study of the Emotional Experiences of Parents and Their Coping Strategies.
  Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 2022 Leung CW, Laraia BA, Feiner C, Solis K, Stewart AL, Adler NE, Epel ES
• COVID-19 and Lessons to Improve Preparedness for the Next Pandemic.
  JAMA 2022 Mangurian C, Fitelson EM, Epel E
• Prospective relationships between skin color satisfaction, body satisfaction, and binge eating in Black girls.
  Body image 2022 Parker JE, Enders CK, Mujahid MS, Laraia BA, Epel ES, Tomiyama AJ
• Correction to: Asymmetrical Effects of Sleep and Emotions in Daily Life.
  Affective science 2022 Newman DB, Epel ES, Coccia M, Puterman E, Prather AA
• Improving the Language Specificity of Stress in Psychological and Population Health Science.
  Psychosomatic medicine 2022 Crosswell AD, Epel ES, Mendes WB, Prather AA
• Asymmetrical Effects of Sleep and Emotions in Daily Life.
  Affective science 2022 Newman DB, Epel ES, Coccia M, Puterman E, Prather AA
• Effects of Early Life Adversity on Pubertal Timing and Tempo in Black and White Girls: The National Growth and Health Study.
  Psychosomatic medicine 2022 Hamlat EJ, Laraia B, Bleil ME, Deardorff J, Tomiyama AJ, Mujahid M, Shields GS, Brownell K, Slavich GM, Epel ES
• Examining Experiences of Poor Sleep During Pregnancy: A Qualitative Study to Inform the Development of a Prenatal Sleep Intervention.
  Global advances in health and medicine 2022 Felder JN, Mirchandaney R, Harrison J, Manber R, Cuneo J, Krystal A, Epel E, Hecht F
• Association of subjective social status with epigenetic aging among Black and White women.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2022 Hamlat EJ, Adler NE, Laraia B, Surachman A, Lu AT, Zhang J, Horvath S, Epel ES
• Author Correction: Detection of COVID-19 using multimodal data from a wearable device: results from the first TemPredict Study.
  Scientific reports 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 …
• The Effects of a Prenatal Mindfulness Intervention on Infant Autonomic and Behavioral Reactivity and Regulation.
  Psychosomatic medicine 2022 Noroña-Zhou AN, Coccia M, Epel E, Vieten C, Adler NE, Laraia B, Jones-Mason K, Alkon A, Bush NR
• Detection of COVID-19 using multimodal data from a wearable device: results from the first TemPredict Study.
  Scientific reports 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 …
• The Climate Change and Mental Health Task Force: One Academic Psychiatry Department's Efforts to Heed the Call to Action.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 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
• Randomized controlled trial of digital cognitive behavior therapy for prenatal insomnia symptoms: effects on postpartum insomnia and mental health.
  Sleep 2022 Felder JN, Epel ES, Neuhaus J, Krystal AD, Prather AA
• 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 Buro AW, Baskin M, Miller D, Ward T, West DS, Gore LR, Gwede CK, Epel E, Carson TL
• Differences in gut microbiome by insulin sensitivity status in Black and White women of the National Growth and Health Study (NGHS): A pilot study.
  PloS one 2022 Price CA, Jospin G, Brownell K, Eisen JA, Laraia B, Epel ES
• Drive for thinness in adolescents predicts greater adult BMI in the Growth and Health Study cohort over 20 years.
  Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2021 Laraia BA, Leung CW, Tomiyama AJ, Ritchie LD, Crawford PB, Epel ES
• Childhood stress and midlife depression in women: the influence of diet quality.
  Nutritional neuroscience 2021 Chiu DT, Hamlat EJ, Leung CW, Epel ES, Laraia BA
• Blood-based mitochondrial respiratory chain function in major depression.
  Translational psychiatry 2021 Fernström J, Mellon SH, McGill MA, Picard M, Reus VI, Hough CM, Lin J, Epel ES, Wolkowitz OM, Lindqvist D
• A Brief Motivational Intervention Differentially Reduces Sugar-sweetened Beverage (SSB) Consumption.
  Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine 2021 Mason AE, Schmidt L, Ishkanian L, Jacobs LM, Leung C, Jensen L, Cohn MA, Schleicher S, Hartman AR, Wojcicki JM, Lustig RH, Epel ES
• Prescription for healing the climate crisis: Insights on how to activate health professionals to advocate for climate and health solutions.
  The journal of climate change and health 2021 Luong KT, Kotcher J, Miller J, Campbell E, Epel E, Sarfaty M, Maibach E
• Longitudinal hair cortisol in low-income young children: A useful biomarker of behavioral symptom change?
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2021 Hagan M, Coccia M, Rivera L, Epel E, Aschbacher K, Laudenslager M, 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.
  Translational psychiatry 2021 Aschbacher K, Hagan M, Steine IM, Rivera L, Cole S, Baccarella A, Epel ES, Lieberman A, Bush NR
• Accomplishing breakthroughs in behavioural medicine research.
  Nature human behaviour 2021 Davidson KW, Bacon SL, Bennett GG, Brondolo E, Czajkowski SM, Diefenbach MA, Epel ES, Matthews K, Revenson TA, Ruiz JM, Segerstrom SC, Behavioral Medicine Research Council
• Exploratory Analysis of Racial/Ethnic and Educational Differences in a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Mindfulness-Based Weight Loss Intervention.
  Psychosomatic medicine 2021 Daubenmier J, Chao MT, Hartogensis W, Liu R, Moran PJ, Acree MC, Kristeller J, Epel ES, Hecht FM
• Longer Leukocyte Telomere Length Predicts Stronger Response to a Workplace Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Sales Ban: An Exploratory Study.
  Current developments in nutrition 2021 Wojcicki JM, Lustig RH, Jacobs LM, Mason AE, Hartman A, Leung C, Stanhope K, Lin J, Schmidt LA, Epel ES
• Omega-3 supplementation and stress reactivity of cellular aging biomarkers: an ancillary substudy of a randomized, controlled trial in midlife adults.
  Molecular psychiatry 2021 Madison AA, Belury MA, Andridge R, Renna ME, Rosie Shrout M, Malarkey WB, Lin J, Epel ES, Kiecolt-Glaser JK
• "GrimAge," an epigenetic predictor of mortality, is accelerated in major depressive disorder.
  Translational psychiatry 2021 Protsenko E, Yang R, Nier B, Reus V, Hammamieh R, Rampersaud R, Wu GWY, Hough CM, Epel E, Prather AA, Jett M, Gautam A, Mellon SH, Wolkowitz OM
• The long shadow of childhood trauma for depression in midlife: examining daily psychological stress processes as a persistent risk pathway.
  Psychological medicine 2021 Mayer SE, Surachman A, Prather AA, Puterman E, Delucchi KL, Irwin MR, Danese A, Almeida DM, Epel ES
• Enhanced Stress Resilience Training in Surgeons: Iterative Adaptation and Biopsychosocial Effects in 2 Small Randomized Trials.
  Annals of surgery 2021 Lebares CC, Coaston TN, Delucchi KL, Guvva EV, Shen WT, Staffaroni AM, Kramer JH, Epel ES, Hecht FM, Ascher NL, Harris HW, Cole SW
• 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 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
• Emergency physician stressors, concerns, and behavioral changes during COVID-19: A longitudinal study.
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2021 Baumann BM, Cooper RJ, Medak AJ, Lim S, Chinnock B, Frazier R, Roberts BW, Epel ES, Rodriguez RM
• The Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Psychological Functioning in Family Caregivers: Secondary Analyses of a Randomized Controlled Trial.
  Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine 2021 Hives BA, Buckler EJ, Weiss J, Schilf S, Johansen KL, Epel ES, Puterman E
• Effects of Aerobic Exercise Training on Daily Psychological Processes in Family Caregivers: Secondary Analyses of a Randomized Controlled Trial.
  Affective science 2021 Caplin A, Beauchamp MR, Weiss J, Schilf S, Hives B, DeLongis A, Johansen KL, Epel ES, Puterman E
• Early life adversity, pubertal timing, and epigenetic age acceleration in adulthood.
  Developmental psychobiology 2021 Hamlat EJ, Prather AA, Horvath S, Belsky J, Epel ES
• The association of maternal psychosocial stress with newborn telomere length.
  PloS one 2020 Izano MA, Cushing LJ, Lin J, Eick SM, Goin DE, Epel E, Woodruff TJ, Morello-Frosch R
• Kindness and cellular aging: A pre-registered experiment testing the effects of prosocial behavior on telomere length and well-being.
  Brain, behavior, & immunity - health 2020 Fritz MM, Walsh LC, Cole SW, Epel E, Lyubomirsky S
• Persistent organic pollutants and maternal glycemic outcomes in a diverse pregnancy cohort of overweight women.
  Environmental research 2020 Mehta SS, James-Todd T, Applebaum KM, Bellavia A, Coleman-Phox K, Adler N, Laraia B, Epel E, Parry E, Wang M, Park JS, Zota AR
• HPA axis regulation and epigenetic programming of immune-related genes in chronically stressed and non-stressed mid-life women.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2020 Palma-Gudiel H, Prather AA, Lin J, Oxendine JD, Guintivano J, Xia K, Rubinow DR, Wolkowitz O, Epel ES, Zannas AS
• Are long telomeres better than short? Relative contributions of genetically predicted telomere length to neoplastic and non-neoplastic disease risk and population health burden.
  PloS one 2020 Protsenko E, Rehkopf D, Prather AA, Epel E, Lin J
• Association between socioeconomic markers and adult telomere length differs according to sex: Pro-Saúde study.
  Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologicas 2020 Normando P, Bezerra FF, Santana BA, Calado RT, Santos-Rebouças CB, Epel ES, Faerstein E
• Maternal Psychological Resilience During Pregnancy and Newborn Telomere Length: A Prospective Study.
  The American journal of psychiatry 2020 Verner G, Epel E, Lahti-Pulkkinen M, Kajantie E, Buss C, Lin J, Blackburn E, Räikkönen K, Wadhwa PD, Entringer S
• Maternal Stress During Pregnancy Predicts Infant Infectious and Noninfectious Illness.
  The Journal of pediatrics 2020 Bush NR, Savitz J, Coccia M, Jones-Mason K, Adler N, Boyce WT, Laraia B, Epel E
• Cost-Effectiveness Of A Workplace Ban On Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Sales: A Microsimulation Model.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2020 Basu S, Jacobs LM, Epel E, Schillinger D, Schmidt L
• Pre-treatment allostatic load and metabolic dysregulation predict SSRI response in major depressive disorder: a preliminary report.
  Psychological medicine 2020 Hough CM, Bersani FS, Mellon SH, Morford AE, Lindqvist D, Reus VI, Epel ES, Wolkowitz OM
• Prenatal Maternal Objective and Subjective Stress Exposures and Rapid Infant Weight Gain.
  The Journal of pediatrics 2020 Felder JN, Epel E, Coccia M, Cordeiro A, Laraia B, Adler N, Coleman-Phox K, Bush NR
• Efficacy of Digital Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the Treatment of Insomnia Symptoms Among Pregnant Women: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
  JAMA psychiatry 2020 Felder JN, Epel ES, Neuhaus J, Krystal AD, Prather AA
• Advancing Research on Psychosocial Stress and Aging with the Health and Retirement Study: Looking Back to Launch the Field Forward.
  The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2020 Crosswell AD, Suresh M, Puterman E, Gruenewald TL, Lee J, Epel ES
• Understanding the Psychological Distress of Food Insecurity: A Qualitative Study of Children's Experiences and Related Coping Strategies.
  Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 2020 Leung CW, Stewart AL, Portela-Parra ET, Adler NE, Laraia BA, Epel ES
• Cardiovascular Disease-Related Pregnancy Complications Are Associated with Increased Maternal Levels and Trajectories of Cardiovascular Disease Biomarkers During and After Pregnancy.
  Journal of women's health (2002) 2020 Parikh NI, Laria B, Nah G, Singhal M, Vittinghoff E, Vieten C, Stotland N, Coleman-Phox K, Adler N, Albert MA, Epel E
• Correction: 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 2020 Mason AE, Saslow L, Moran PJ, Kim S, Wali PK, Abousleiman H, Hartman A, Richler R, Schleicher S, Hartogensis W, Epel ES, Hecht F
• Racial discrimination and telomere shortening among African Americans: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study.
  Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association 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
• Association of a Workplace Sales Ban on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages With Employee Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Health.
  JAMA internal medicine 2020 Epel ES, Hartman A, Jacobs LM, Leung C, Cohn MA, Jensen L, Ishkanian L, Wojcicki J, Mason AE, Lustig RH, Stanhope KL, Schmidt LA
• Can Childhood Adversity Affect Telomeres of the Next Generation? Possible Mechanisms, Implications, and Next-Generation Research.
  The American journal of psychiatry 2020 Epel ES
• The stress field ages: A close look into cellular aging processes.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2019 Entringer S, Epel ES
• Do stress eating or compulsive eating influence metabolic health in a mindfulness-based weight loss intervention?
  Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association 2019 Radin RM, Epel ES, Daubenmier J, Moran P, Schleicher S, Kristeller J, Hecht FM, Mason AE
• Pregnant Patient Perceptions of Provider Detection and Treatment of Insomnia.
  Behavioral sleep medicine 2019 Felder JN, Hartman AR, Epel ES, Prather AA
• Variants in gene encoding for vitamin D binding protein were associated with leukocyte telomere length: The Pró-Saúde Study.
  Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) 2019 Normando P, Santos-Rebouças C, Leung C, Epel E, da Fonseca AC, Zembrzuski V, Faerstein E, Bezerra FF
• Correlates of longitudinal leukocyte telomere length in the Costa Rican Longevity Study of Healthy Aging (CRELES): On the importance of DNA collection and storage procedures.
  PloS one 2019 Rosero-Bixby L, Rehkopf DH, Dow WH, Lin J, Epel ES, Azofeifa J, Leal A
• An 8-Week Relaxation Program Consisting of Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Mindfulness Meditation to Reduce Stress and Attenuate Stress-Driven Eating.
  Applied psychology. Health and well-being 2019 Masih T, Dimmock JA, Epel E, Guelfi KJ
• Effects of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Distress, Weight Gain, and Glucose Control for Pregnant Low-Income Women: A Quasi-Experimental Trial Using the ORBIT Model.
  International journal of behavioral medicine 2019 Epel E, Laraia B, Coleman-Phox K, Leung C, Vieten C, Mellin L, Kristeller JL, Thomas M, Stotland N, Bush N, Lustig RH, Dallman M, Hecht FM, Adler N
• Associations between sociodemographic characteristics and exposures to PBDEs, OH-PBDEs, PCBs, and PFASs in a diverse, overweight population of pregnant women.
  Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology 2019 Mehta SS, Applebaum KM, James-Todd T, Coleman-Phox K, Adler N, Laraia B, Epel E, Parry E, Wang M, Park JS, Zota AR
• A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Mindfulness-Based Weight Loss Intervention on Cardiovascular Reactivity to Social-Evaluative Threat Among Adults with Obesity.
  Mindfulness 2019 Daubenmier J, Epel ES, Moran PJ, Thompson J, Mason AE, Acree M, Goldman V, Kristeller J, Hecht FM, Mendes WB
• Association of Short-term Change in Leukocyte Telomere Length With Cortical Thickness and Outcomes of Mental Training Among Healthy Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
  JAMA network open 2019 Puhlmann LMC, Valk SL, Engert V, Bernhardt BC, Lin J, Epel ES, Vrticka P, Singer T
• Chronic psychosocial and financial burden accelerates 5-year telomere shortening: findings from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study.
  Molecular psychiatry 2019 Cabeza de Baca T, Prather AA, Lin J, Sternfeld B, Adler N, Epel ES, Puterman E
• Transactions between Maternal and Child Depressive Symptoms Emerge Early in Life.
  Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53 2019 Roubinov DS, Epel ES, Adler NE, Laraia BA, Bush NR
• Correction: Maternal caregivers have confluence of altered cortisol, high reward-driven eating, and worse metabolic health.
  PloS one 2019 Radin RM, Mason AE, Laudenslager ML, Epel ES
• Obstructive sleep apnea, nighttime arousals, and leukocyte telomere length: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
  Sleep 2019 Carroll JE, Irwin MR, Seeman TE, Diez-Roux AV, Prather AA, Olmstead R, Epel E, Lin J, Redline S
• Maternal caregivers have confluence of altered cortisol, high reward-driven eating, and worse metabolic health.
  PloS one 2019 Radin RM, Mason AE, Laudenslager ML, Epel ES
• Sweet cognition: The differential effects of glucose consumption on attentional food bias in individuals of lean and obese status.
  Physiology & behavior 2019 Mason AE, Jhaveri K, Schleicher S, Almeida C, Hartman A, Wackerly A, Alba D, Koliwad SK, Epel ES, Aschbacher K
• Maternal pro-inflammatory state during pregnancy and newborn leukocyte telomere length: A prospective investigation.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2019 Lazarides C, Epel ES, Lin J, Blackburn EH, Voelkle MC, Buss C, Simhan HN, Wadhwa PD, Entringer S
• Cumulative lifetime stress exposure and leukocyte telomere length attrition: The unique role of stressor duration and exposure timing.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2019 Mayer SE, Prather AA, Puterman E, Lin J, Arenander J, Coccia M, Shields GS, Slavich GM, Epel ES
• 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 2019 Mason AE, Saslow L, Moran PJ, Kim S, Wali PK, Abousleiman H, Hartman A, Richler R, Schleicher S, Hartogensis W, Epel ES, Hecht F
• Mind wandering and stress: When you don't like the present moment.
  Emotion (Washington, D.C.) 2019 Crosswell AD, Coccia M, Epel ES
• Rapid Assessment of Reward-Related Eating: The RED-X5.
  Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2019 Vainik U, Eun Han J, Epel ES, Janet Tomiyama A, Dagher A, Mason AE
• Stress resilience: Narrative identity may buffer the longitudinal effects of chronic caregiving stress on mental health and telomere shortening.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2018 Mason AE, Adler JM, Puterman E, Lakmazaheri A, Brucker M, Aschbacher K, Epel ES
• Neighborhood Typology and Cardiometabolic Pregnancy Outcomes in the Maternal Adiposity Metabolism and Stress Study.
  Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2018 Headen I, Laraia B, Coleman-Phox K, Vieten C, Adler N, Epel E
• Meditation, stress processes, and telomere biology.
  Current opinion in psychology 2018 Conklin QA, Crosswell AD, Saron CD, Epel ES
• Diet Quality Indices and Leukocyte Telomere Length Among Healthy US Adults: Data From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2002.
  American journal of epidemiology 2018 Leung CW, Fung TT, McEvoy CT, Lin J, Epel ES
• Burnout and gender in surgical training: A call to re-evaluate coping and dysfunction.
  American journal of surgery 2018 Lebares CC, Braun HJ, Guvva EV, Epel ES, Hecht FM
• Weight Loss Maintenance and Cellular Aging in the Supporting Health Through Nutrition and Exercise Study.
  Psychosomatic medicine 2018 Mason AE, Hecht FM, Daubenmier JJ, Sbarra DA, Lin J, Moran PJ, Schleicher SG, Acree M, Prather AA, Epel ES
• Aerobic exercise lengthens telomeres and reduces stress in family caregivers: A randomized controlled trial - Curt Richter Award Paper 2018.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2018 Puterman E, Weiss J, Lin J, Schilf S, Slusher AL, Johansen KL, Epel ES
• 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 2018 Conklin QA, King BG, Zanesco AP, Lin J, Hamidi AB, Pokorny JJ, Jesús Álvarez-López M, Cosín-Tomás M, Huang C, Kaliman P, Epel ES, Saron CD
• Justice for all? Beliefs about justice for self and others and telomere length in African Americans.
  Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology 2018 Lucas T, Woerner J, Pierce J, Granger DA, Lin J, Epel ES, Assari S, Lumley MA
• In vitro proinflammatory gene expression predicts in vivo telomere shortening: A preliminary study.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2018 Lin J, Sun J, Wang S, Milush JM, Baker CAR, Coccia M, Effros RB, Puterman E, Blackburn E, Prather AA, Epel E
• Associations between chronic caregiving stress and T cell markers implicated in immunosenescence.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2018 Prather AA, Epel ES, Portela Parra E, Coccia M, Puterman E, Aiello AE, Dhabhar FS
• Lack of partner impacts newborn health through maternal depression: A pilot study of low-income immigrant Latina women.
  Midwifery 2018 Cabeza de Baca T, Wojcicki JM, Epel ES, Adler NE
• Acceptance or Despair? Maternal Adjustment to Having a Child Diagnosed with Autism.
  Journal of autism and developmental disorders 2018 Da Paz NS, Siegel B, Coccia MA, Epel ES
• The mindful moms training: development of a mindfulness-based intervention to reduce stress and overeating during pregnancy.
  BMC pregnancy and childbirth 2018 Vieten C, Laraia BA, Kristeller J, Adler N, Coleman-Phox K, Bush NR, Wahbeh H, Duncan LG, Epel E
• A randomized, controlled trial of mindfulness-based stress reduction in HIV infection.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2018 Hecht FM, Moskowitz JT, Moran P, Epel ES, Bacchetti P, Acree M, Kemeny ME, Mendes WB, Duncan LG, Weng H, Levy JA, Deeks SG, Folkman S
• Cross-border ties, nativity, and inflammatory markers in a population-based prospective study of Latino adults.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2018 Torres JM, Epel ES, To TM, Lee A, Aiello AE, Haan MN
• Chronic Obesity and Incident Hypertension in Latina Women Are Associated with Accelerated Telomere Length Loss over a 1-Year Period.
  Metabolic syndrome and related disorders 2018 Wojcicki JM, Elwan D, Lin J, Blackburn E, Epel E
• Telomere attrition is associated with declines in medial temporal lobe volume and white matter microstructure in functionally independent older adults.
  Neurobiology of aging 2018 Staffaroni AM, Tosun D, Lin J, Elahi FM, Casaletto KB, Wynn MJ, Patel N, Neuhaus J, Walters SM, Epel ES, Blackburn EH, Kramer JH
• Novel Interventions to Reduce Stress and Overeating in Overweight Pregnant Women: A Feasibility Study.
  Maternal and child health journal 2018 Laraia BA, Adler NE, Coleman-Phox K, Vieten C, Mellin L, Kristeller JL, Thomas M, Stotland NE, Lustig RH, Dallman MF, Hecht FM, Bush NR, de Groat CL, Epel E
• Cord blood klotho levels are inversely associated with leptin in healthy Latino neonates at risk for obesity.
  Journal of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism : JPEM 2018 Wojcicki JM, Prather AA, Epel E, Wang D, Dubal DB
• Accumulating Data to Optimally Predict Obesity Treatment (ADOPT) Core Measures: Psychosocial Domain.
  Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2018 Sutin AR, Boutelle K, Czajkowski SM, Epel ES, Green PA, Hunter CM, Rice EL, Williams DM, Young-Hyman D, Rothman AJ
• Chronic Stress and Impulsive Risk-Taking Predict Increases in Visceral Fat over 18 Months.
  Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2018 Mason AE, Schleicher S, Coccia M, Epel ES, Aschbacher K
• More than a feeling: A unified view of stress measurement for population science.
  Frontiers in neuroendocrinology 2018 Epel ES, Crosswell AD, Mayer SE, Prather AA, Slavich GM, Puterman E, Mendes WB
• 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 2018 Zota AR, Geller RJ, Romano LE, Coleman-Phox K, Adler NE, Parry E, Wang M, Park JS, Elmi AF, Laraia BA, Epel ES
• Insight meditation and telomere biology: The effects of intensive retreat and the moderating role of personality.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2018 Conklin QA, King BG, Zanesco AP, Lin J, Hamidi AB, Pokorny JJ, Álvarez-López MJ, Cosín-Tomás M, Huang C, Kaliman P, Epel ES, Saron CD
• Stress, Telomeres, and Psychopathology: Toward a Deeper Understanding of a Triad of Early Aging.
  Annual review of clinical psychology 2018 Epel ES, Prather AA
• Effect of prenatal mindfulness training on depressive symptom severity through 18-months postpartum: A latent profile analysis.
  Journal of clinical psychology 2018 Felder JN, Roubinov D, Bush NR, Coleman-Phox K, Vieten C, Laraia B, Adler NE, Epel E
• A Mitochondrial Health Index Sensitive to Mood and Caregiving Stress.
  Biological psychiatry 2018 Picard M, Prather AA, Puterman E, Cuillerier A, Coccia M, Aschbacher K, Burelle Y, Epel ES
• Circulating cell-free mitochondrial DNA, but not leukocyte mitochondrial DNA copy number, is elevated in major depressive disorder.
  Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2018 Lindqvist D, Wolkowitz OM, Picard M, Ohlsson L, Bersani FS, Fernström J, Westrin Å, Hough CM, Lin J, Reus VI, Epel ES, Mellon SH
• An energetic view of stress: Focus on mitochondria.
  Frontiers in neuroendocrinology 2018 Picard M, McEwen BS, Epel ES, Sandi C
• Maternal depressive symptoms and infant healthcare utilization: The moderating role of prenatal mindfulness.
  General hospital psychiatry 2018 Roubinov DS, Felder JN, Vieten C, Coleman-Phox K, Laraia B, Adler N, Wilson L, Epel E, Bush NR
• Associations Between Cellular Aging Markers and Metabolic Syndrome: Findings From the CARDIA Study.
  The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 2018 Révész D, Verhoeven JE, Picard M, Lin J, Sidney S, Epel ES, Penninx BWJH, Puterman E
• Shorter preschool, leukocyte telomere length is associated with obesity at age 9 in Latino children.
  Clinical obesity 2017 Kjaer TW, Faurholt-Jepsen D, Mehta KM, Christensen VB, Epel E, Lin J, Blackburn E, Wojcicki JM
• Effects of pre- and postnatal maternal stress on infant temperament and autonomic nervous system reactivity and regulation in a diverse, low-income population-CORRIGENDUM.
  Development and psychopathology 2017 Bush NR, Jones-Mason K, Coccia M, Caron Z, Alkon A, Thomas M, Coleman-Phox K, Wadhwa PD, Laraia BA, Adler NE, Epel ES
• Basal and reactivity levels of cortisol in one-month-old infants born to overweight or obese mothers from an ethnically and racially diverse, low-income community sample.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2017 Jones-Mason KM, Coccia M, Grover S, Epel ES, Bush NR
• 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 2017 Bush NR, Jones-Mason K, Coccia M, Caron Z, Alkon A, Thomas M, Coleman-Phox K, Wadhwa PD, Laraia BA, Adler NE, Epel ES
• Increased Cellular Aging by 3 Years of Age in Latino, Preschool Children Who Consume More Sugar-Sweetened Beverages: A Pilot Study.
  Childhood obesity (Print) 2017 Wojcicki JM, Medrano R, Lin J, Epel E
• A Randomized Pilot Study of a Phone-Based Mindfulness and Weight Loss Program.
  Behavioral medicine (Washington, D.C.) 2017 Carpenter KM, Vickerman KA, Salmon EE, Javitz HS, Epel ES, Lovejoy JC
• Burnout and Stress Among US Surgery Residents: Psychological Distress and Resilience.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2017 Lebares CC, Guvva EV, Ascher NL, O'Sullivan PS, Harris HW, Epel ES
• Childhood adversity, social support, and telomere length among perinatal women.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2017 Mitchell AM, Kowalsky JM, Epel ES, Lin J, Christian LM
• Telomere length and procedural justice predict stress reactivity responses to unfair outcomes in African Americans.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2017 Lucas T, Pierce J, Lumley MA, Granger DA, Lin J, Epel ES
• Stress-induced eating and the relaxation response as a potential antidote: A review and hypothesis.
  Appetite 2017 Masih T, Dimmock JA, Epel ES, Guelfi KJ
• Shorter Leukocyte Telomere Length in Relation to Presumed Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Mexican-American Men in NHANES 1999-2002.
  International journal of hepatology 2017 Wojcicki JM, Rehkopf D, Epel E, Rosenthal P
• Socioeconomic Status, Financial Strain, and Leukocyte Telomere Length in a Sample of African American Midlife Men.
  Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities 2017 Schrock JM, Adler NE, Epel ES, Nuru-Jeter AM, Lin J, Blackburn EH, Taylor RJ, Chae DH
• 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 2017 Fair B, Mellon SH, Epel ES, Lin J, Révész D, Verhoeven JE, Penninx BW, Reus VI, Rosser R, Hough CM, Mahan L, Burke HM, Blackburn EH, Wolkowitz OM
• Improving Assessment of the Spectrum of Reward-Related Eating: The RED-13.
  Frontiers in psychology 2017 Mason AE, Vainik U, Acree M, Tomiyama AJ, Dagher A, Epel ES, Hecht FM
• The Relationship Between Childhood Psychosocial Stressor Level and Telomere Length: A Meta-Analysis.
  Health psychology research 2017 Hanssen LM, Schutte NS, Malouff JM, Epel ES
• Severity of anxiety- but not depression- is associated with oxidative stress in Major Depressive Disorder.
  Journal of affective disorders 2017 Steenkamp LR, Hough CM, Reus VI, Jain FA, Epel ES, James SJ, Morford AE, Mellon SH, Wolkowitz OM, Lindqvist D
• Trait acceptance predicts fewer daily negative emotions through less stressor-related rumination.
  Emotion (Washington, D.C.) 2017 Catalino LI, Arenander J, Epel E, Puterman E
• Effects of daily maladaptive coping on nightly sleep in mothers.
  Psychology & health 2017 Felder JN, Epel ES, Coccia M, Puterman E, Prather AA
• Long-term calorie restriction in humans is not associated with indices of delayed immunologic aging: A descriptive study.
  Nutrition and healthy aging 2017 Tomiyama AJ, Milush JM, Lin J, Flynn JM, Kapahi P, Verdin E, Sinclair E, Melov S, Epel ES
• Sexual intimacy in couples is associated with longer telomere length.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2017 Cabeza de Baca T, Epel ES, Robles TF, Coccia M, Gilbert A, Puterman E, Prather AA
• Depressive symptoms and gestational length among pregnant adolescents: Cluster randomized control trial of CenteringPregnancy® plus group prenatal care.
  Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 2017 Felder JN, Epel E, Lewis JB, Cunningham SD, Tobin JN, Rising SS, Thomas M, Ickovics JR
• Poor Sleep Quality, Psychological Distress, and the Buffering Effect of Mindfulness Training During Pregnancy.
  Behavioral sleep medicine 2017 Felder JN, Laraia B, Coleman-Phox K, Bush N, Suresh M, Thomas M, Adler N, Epel E, Prather AA
• Impact of a Mindfulness-Based Weight-Loss Intervention on Sleep Quality Among Adults with Obesity: Data from the SHINE Randomized Controlled Trial.
  Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) 2016 Adler E, Dhruva A, Moran PJ, Daubenmier J, Acree M, Epel ES, Bacchetti P, Prather AA, Mason A, Hecht FM
• Correction: Change in Leukocyte Telomere Length Predicts Mortality in Patients with Stable Coronary Heart Disease from the Heart and Soul Study.
  PloS one 2016 Goglin SE, Farzaneh-Far R, Epel ES, Lin J, Blackburn EH, Whooley MA
• Higher serum DHEA concentrations before and after SSRI treatment are associated with remission of major depression.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2016 Hough CM, Lindqvist D, Epel ES, Denis MS, Reus VI, Bersani FS, Rosser R, Mahan L, Burke HM, Wolkowitz OM, Mellon SH
• Disease drivers of aging.
  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2016 Hodes RJ, Sierra F, Austad SN, Epel E, Neigh GN, Erlandson KM, Schafer MJ, LeBrasseur NK, Wiley C, Campisi J, Sehl ME, Scalia R, Eguchi S, Kasinath BS, Halter JB, Cohen HJ, Demark-Wahnefried W, Ahles …
• Short and sweet: Associations between self-reported sleep duration and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among adults in the United States.
  Sleep health 2016 Prather AA, Leung CW, Adler NE, Ritchie L, Laraia B, Epel ES
• Oxidative stress, inflammation and treatment response in major depression.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2016 Lindqvist D, Dhabhar FS, James SJ, Hough CM, Jain FA, Bersani FS, Reus VI, Verhoeven JE, Epel ES, Mahan L, Rosser R, Wolkowitz OM, Mellon SH
• Leukocyte Telomere Length in Relation to 17 Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Disease Risk: A Cross-Sectional Study of US Adults.
  PLoS medicine 2016 Rehkopf DH, Needham BL, Lin J, Blackburn EH, Zota AR, Wojcicki JM, Epel ES
• Associations between childhood adversity and daily suppression and avoidance in response to stress in adulthood: can neurobiological sensitivity help explain this relationship?
  Anxiety, stress, and coping 2016 Hagan MJ, Bush N, Mendes WB, Arenander J, Epel E, Puterman E
• Change in Leukocyte Telomere Length Predicts Mortality in Patients with Stable Coronary Heart Disease from the Heart and Soul Study.
  PloS one 2016 Goglin SE, Farzaneh-Far R, Epel ES, Lin J, Blackburn EH, Whooley MA
• Lifespan adversity and later adulthood telomere length in the nationally representative US Health and Retirement Study.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2016 Puterman E, Gemmill A, Karasek D, Weir D, Adler NE, Prather AA, Epel ES
• Chronic stress is associated with reduced circulating hematopoietic progenitor cell number: A maternal caregiving model.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2016 Aschbacher K, Milush JM, Gilbert A, Almeida C, Sinclair E, Epling L, Grenon SM, Marco EJ, Puterman E, Epel E
• Meditation and vacation effects have an impact on disease-associated molecular phenotypes.
  Translational psychiatry 2016 Epel ES, Puterman E, Lin J, Blackburn EH, Lum PY, Beckmann ND, Zhu J, Lee E, Gilbert A, Rissman RA, Tanzi RE, Schadt EE
• The P4 Health Spectrum - A Predictive, Preventive, Personalized and Participatory Continuum for Promoting Healthspan.
  Progress in cardiovascular diseases 2016 Sagner M, McNeil A, Puska P, Auffray C, Price ND, Hood L, Lavie CJ, Han ZG, Chen Z, Brahmachari SK, McEwen BS, Soares MB, Balling R, Epel E, Arena R
• Early exclusive breastfeeding is associated with longer telomeres in Latino preschool children.
  The American journal of clinical nutrition 2016 Wojcicki JM, Heyman MB, Elwan D, Lin J, Blackburn E, Epel E
• Cortisol/DHEA ratio and hippocampal volume: A pilot study in major depression and healthy controls.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2016 Jin RO, Mason S, Mellon SH, Epel ES, Reus VI, Mahan L, Rosser RL, Hough CM, Burke HM, Mueller SG, Wolkowitz OM
• Leukocyte telomere length predicts SSRI response in major depressive disorder: A preliminary report.
  Molecular neuropsychiatry 2016 Hough CM, Bersani FS, Mellon SH, Epel ES, Reus VI, Lindqvist D, Lin J, Mahan L, Rosser R, Burke H, Coetzee J, Nelson JC, Blackburn EH, Wolkowitz OM
• Sugary beverage and food consumption, and leukocyte telomere length maintenance in pregnant women.
  European journal of clinical nutrition 2016 Leung CW, Laraia BA, Coleman-Phox K, Bush NR, Lin J, Blackburn EH, Adler NE, Epel ES
• Alterations in leukocyte transcriptional control pathway activity associated with major depressive disorder and antidepressant treatment.
  Translational psychiatry 2016 Mellon SH, Wolkowitz OM, Schonemann MD, Epel ES, Rosser R, Burke HB, Mahan L, Reus VI, Stamatiou D, Liew CC, Cole SW
• Toward a mechanistic understanding of psychosocial factors in telomere degradation.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2016 Mathur MB, Epel E, Kind S, Desai M, Parks CG, Sandler DP, Khazeni N
• Telomere length change plateaus at 4 years of age in Latino children: associations with baseline length and maternal change.
  Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG 2016 Wojcicki JM, Shiboski S, Heyman MB, Elwan D, Lin J, Blackburn E, Epel E
• Effects of a mindfulness-based weight loss intervention in adults with obesity: A randomized clinical trial.
  Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2016 Daubenmier J, Moran PJ, Kristeller J, Acree M, Bacchetti P, Kemeny ME, Dallman M, Lustig RH, Grunfeld C, Nixon DF, Milush JM, Goldman V, Laraia B, Laugero KD, Woodhouse L, Epel ES, Hecht FM
• A Prospective Investigation of Prenatal Mood and Childbirth Perceptions in an Ethnically Diverse, Low-Income Sample.
  Birth (Berkeley, Calif.) 2016 Congdon JL, Adler NE, Epel ES, Laraia BA, Bush NR
• Systematic and Cell Type-Specific Telomere Length Changes in Subsets of Lymphocytes.
  Journal of immunology research 2016 Lin J, Cheon J, Brown R, Coccia M, Puterman E, Aschbacher K, Sinclair E, Epel E, Blackburn EH
• 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 2016 Mason AE, Epel ES, Aschbacher K, Lustig RH, Acree M, Kristeller J, Cohn M, Dallman M, Moran PJ, Bacchetti P, Laraia B, Hecht FM, Daubenmier J
• Perceived stress and telomere length: A systematic review, meta-analysis, and methodologic considerations for advancing the field.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2016 Mathur MB, Epel E, Kind S, Desai M, Parks CG, Sandler DP, Khazeni N
• Factors related to telomere length.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2016 Prather AA, Hecht FM, Epel ES
• Telomere length as a predictor of response to Pioglitazone in patients with unremitted depression: a preliminary study.
  Translational psychiatry 2016 Rasgon N, Lin KW, Lin J, Epel E, Blackburn E
• Cord blood telomere length in Latino infants: relation with maternal education and infant sex.
  Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association 2015 Wojcicki JM, Olveda R, Heyman MB, Elwan D, Lin J, Blackburn E, Epel E
• Associations of childhood adversity and adulthood trauma with C-reactive protein: A cross-sectional population-based study.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2015 Lin JE, Neylan TC, Epel E, O'Donovan A
• 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 2015 Mason AE, Epel ES, Kristeller J, Moran PJ, Dallman M, Lustig RH, Acree M, Bacchetti P, Laraia BA, Hecht FM, Daubenmier J
• Peripheral telomere length and hippocampal volume in adolescents with major depressive disorder.
  Translational psychiatry 2015 Henje Blom E, Han LK, Connolly CG, Ho TC, Lin J, LeWinn KZ, Simmons AN, Sacchet MD, Mobayed N, Luna ME, Paulus M, Epel ES, Blackburn EH, Wolkowitz OM, Yang TT
• Dispositional Mindfulness in People with HIV: Associations with Psychological and Physical Health.
  Personality and individual differences 2015 Moskowitz JT, Duncan LG, Moran PJ, Acree M, Epel ES, Kemeny ME, Hecht FM, Folkman S
• Association of dimensional psychological health measures with telomere length in male war veterans.
  Journal of affective disorders 2015 Bersani FS, Lindqvist D, Mellon SH, Epel ES, Yehuda R, Flory J, Henn-Hasse C, Bierer LM, Makotkine I, Abu-Amara D, Coy M, Reus VI, Lin J, Blackburn EH, Marmar C, Wolkowitz OM
• 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 2015 Bersani FS, Wolkowitz OM, Lindqvist D, Yehuda R, Flory J, Bierer LM, Makotine I, Abu-Amara D, Coy M, Reus VI, Epel ES, Marmar C, Mellon SH
• Discrimination, mental health, and leukocyte telomere length among African American men.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2015 Chae DH, Epel ES, Nuru-Jeter AM, Lincoln KD, Taylor RJ, Lin J, Blackburn EH, Thomas SB
• Exercise mitigates cumulative associations between stress and BMI in girls age 10 to 19.
  Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association 2015 Puterman E, Prather AA, Epel ES, Loharuka S, Adler NE, Laraia B, Tomiyama AJ
• Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis dysregulation and cortisol activity in obesity: A systematic review.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2015 Incollingo Rodriguez AC, Epel ES, White ML, Standen EC, Seckl JR, Tomiyama AJ
• The impact of group prenatal care on pregnancy and postpartum weight trajectories.
  American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2015 Magriples U, Boynton MH, Kershaw TS, Lewis J, Rising SS, Tobin JN, Epel E, Ickovics JR
• Putting the brakes on the "drive to eat": Pilot effects of naltrexone and reward-based eating on food cravings among obese women.
  Eating behaviors 2015 Mason AE, Laraia B, Daubenmier J, Hecht FM, Lustig RH, Puterman E, Adler N, Dallman M, Kiernan M, Gearhardt AN, Epel ES
• Leukocyte telomere length and mortality in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2002.
  Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 2015 Needham BL, Rehkopf D, Adler N, Gregorich S, Lin J, Blackburn EH, Epel ES
• Mitochondrial DNA copy number is reduced in male combat veterans with PTSD.
  Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry 2015 Bersani FS, Morley C, Lindqvist D, Epel ES, Picard M, Yehuda R, Flory J, Bierer LM, Makotkine I, Abu-Amara D, Coy M, Reus VI, Lin J, Blackburn EH, Marmar C, Wolkowitz OM, Mellon SH
• Longevity factor klotho and chronic psychological stress.
  Translational psychiatry 2015 Prather AA, Epel ES, Arenander J, Broestl L, Garay BI, Wang D, Dubal DB
• Telomere length is associated with oppositional defiant behavior and maternal clinical depression in Latino preschool children.
  Translational psychiatry 2015 Wojcicki JM, Heyman MB, Elwan D, Shiboski S, Lin J, Blackburn E, Epel E
• Maternal Folate Concentration in Early Pregnancy and Newborn Telomere Length.
  Annals of nutrition & metabolism 2015 Entringer S, Epel ES, Lin J, Blackburn EH, Buss C, Shahbaba B, Gillen DL, Venkataramanan R, Simhan HN, Wadhwa PD
• Psychiatric disorders and leukocyte telomere length: Underlying mechanisms linking mental illness with cellular aging.
  Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2015 Lindqvist D, Epel ES, Mellon SH, Penninx BW, Révész D, Verhoeven JE, Reus VI, Lin J, Mahan L, Hough CM, Rosser R, Bersani FS, Blackburn EH, Wolkowitz OM
• Race-Ethnicity, Poverty, Urban Stressors, and Telomere Length in a Detroit Community-based Sample.
  Journal of health and social behavior 2015 Geronimus AT, Pearson JA, Linnenbringer E, Schulz AJ, Reyes AG, Epel ES, Lin J, Blackburn EH
• Acute responses to opioidergic blockade as a biomarker of hedonic eating among obese women enrolled in a mindfulness-based weight loss intervention trial.
  Appetite 2015 Mason AE, Lustig RH, Brown RR, Acree M, Bacchetti P, Moran PJ, Dallman M, Laraia B, Adler N, Hecht FM, Daubenmier J, Epel ES
• Excessive Sugar Consumption May Be a Difficult Habit to Break: A View From the Brain and Body.
  The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 2015 Tryon MS, Stanhope KL, Epel ES, Mason AE, Brown R, Medici V, Havel PJ, Laugero KD
• Anxiety disorders and accelerated cellular ageing.
  The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science 2015 Verhoeven JE, Révész D, van Oppen P, Epel ES, Wolkowitz OM, Penninx BW
• PBMC telomerase activity, but not leukocyte telomere length, correlates with hippocampal volume in major depression.
  Psychiatry research 2015 Wolkowitz OM, Mellon SH, Lindqvist D, Epel ES, Blackburn EH, Lin J, Reus VI, Burke H, Rosser R, Mahan L, Mackin S, Yang T, Weiner M, Mueller S
• Maternal estriol concentrations in early gestation predict infant telomere length.
  The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 2015 Entringer S, Epel ES, Lin J, Blackburn EH, Buss C, Simhan HN, Wadhwa PD
• Household food insecurity is positively associated with depression among low-income supplemental nutrition assistance program participants and income-eligible nonparticipants.
  The Journal of nutrition 2014 Leung CW, Epel ES, Willett WC, Rimm EB, Laraia BA
• Tired telomeres: Poor global sleep quality, perceived stress, and telomere length in immune cell subsets in obese men and women.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2014 Prather AA, Gurfein B, Moran P, Daubenmier J, Acree M, Bacchetti P, Sinclair E, Lin J, Blackburn E, Hecht FM, Epel ES
• Associations of cadmium and lead exposure with leukocyte telomere length: findings from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2002.
  American journal of epidemiology 2014 Zota AR, Needham BL, Blackburn EH, Lin J, Park SK, Rehkopf DH, Epel ES
• Anger is associated with increased IL-6 stress reactivity in women, but only among those low in social support.
  International journal of behavioral medicine 2014 Puterman E, Epel ES, O'Donovan A, Prather AA, Aschbacher K, Dhabhar FS
• Geroscience: linking aging to chronic disease.
  Cell 2014 Kennedy BK, Berger SL, Brunet A, Campisi J, Cuervo AM, Epel ES, Franceschi C, Lithgow GJ, Morimoto RI, Pessin JE, Rando TA, Richardson A, Schadt EE, Wyss-Coray T, Sierra F
• Soda and cell aging: associations between sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and leukocyte telomere length in healthy adults from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys.
  American journal of public health 2014 Leung CW, Laraia BA, Needham BL, Rehkopf DH, Adler NE, Lin J, Blackburn EH, Epel ES
• The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal-leptin axis and metabolic health: a systems approach to resilience, robustness and control.
  Interface focus 2014 Aschbacher K, Rodriguez-Fernandez M, van Wietmarschen H, Tomiyama AJ, Jain S, Epel E, Doyle FJ, van der Greef J
• Peripheral antioxidant markers are associated with total hippocampal and CA3/dentate gyrus volume in MDD and healthy controls-preliminary findings.
  Psychiatry research 2014 Lindqvist D, Mueller S, Mellon SH, Su Y, Epel ES, Reus VI, Rosser R, Mahan L, Mackin RS, Yang TT, Wolkowitz OM
• Depression, anxiety and telomere length in young adults: evidence from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
  Molecular psychiatry 2014 Needham BL, Mezuk B, Bareis N, Lin J, Blackburn EH, Epel ES
• Adverse childhood experiences and leukocyte telomere maintenance in depressed and healthy adults.
  Journal of affective disorders 2014 Chen SH, Epel ES, Mellon SH, Lin J, Reus VI, Rosser R, Kupferman E, Burke H, Mahan L, Blackburn EH, Wolkowitz OM
• Associations of weight stigma with cortisol and oxidative stress independent of adiposity.
  Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association 2014 Tomiyama AJ, Epel ES, McClatchey TM, Poelke G, Kemeny ME, McCoy SK, Daubenmier J
• Food insecurity is inversely associated with diet quality of lower-income adults.
  Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 2014 Leung CW, Epel ES, Ritchie LD, Crawford PB, Laraia BA
• Determinants of telomere attrition over 1 year in healthy older women: stress and health behaviors matter.
  Molecular psychiatry 2014 Puterman E, Lin J, Krauss J, Blackburn EH, Epel ES
• Effect of restorative yoga vs. stretching on diurnal cortisol dynamics and psychosocial outcomes in individuals with the metabolic syndrome: the PRYSMS randomized controlled trial.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2014 Corey SM, Epel E, Schembri M, Pawlowsky SB, Cole RJ, Araneta MR, Barrett-Connor E, Kanaya AM
• Relationship between leukocyte telomere length, telomerase activity, and hippocampal volume in early aging.
  JAMA neurology 2014 Jacobs EG, Epel ES, Lin J, Blackburn EH, Rasgon NL
• The reward-based eating drive scale: a self-report index of reward-based eating.
  PloS one 2014 Epel ES, Tomiyama AJ, Mason AE, Laraia BA, Hartman W, Ready K, Acree M, Adam TC, St Jeor S, Kessler D
• Potential for a stress reduction intervention to promote healthy gestational weight gain: focus groups with low-income pregnant women.
  Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health 2014 Thomas M, Vieten C, Adler N, Ammondson I, Coleman-Phox K, Epel E, Laraia B
• Clues to maintaining calorie restriction? Psychosocial profiles of successful long-term restrictors.
  Appetite 2014 Incollingo Belsky AC, Epel ES, Tomiyama AJ
• Chronic stress increases vulnerability to diet-related abdominal fat, oxidative stress, and metabolic risk.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2014 Aschbacher K, Kornfeld S, Picard M, Puterman E, Havel PJ, Stanhope K, Lustig RH, Epel E
• Seasonal variation of peripheral blood leukocyte telomere length in Costa Rica: A population-based observational study.
  American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council 2014 Rehkopf DH, Dow WH, Rosero-Bixby L, Lin J, Epel ES, Blackburn EH
• Discrimination, racial bias, and telomere length in African-American men.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2014 Chae DH, Nuru-Jeter AM, Adler NE, Brody GH, Lin J, Blackburn EH, Epel ES
• Associations of ghrelin with eating behaviors, stress, metabolic factors, and telomere length among overweight and obese women: preliminary evidence of attenuated ghrelin effects in obesity?
  Appetite 2014 Buss J, Havel PJ, Epel E, Lin J, Blackburn E, Daubenmier J
• Speaking under pressure: low linguistic complexity is linked to high physiological and emotional stress reactivity.
  Psychophysiology 2013 Saslow LR, McCoy S, van der Löwe I, Cosley B, Vartan A, Oveis C, Keltner D, Moskowitz JT, Epel ES
• A new biomarker of hedonic eating? A preliminary investigation of cortisol and nausea responses to acute opioid blockade.
  Appetite 2013 Daubenmier J, Lustig RH, Hecht FM, Kristeller J, Woolley J, Adam T, Dallman M, Epel E
• Major depressive disorder and accelerated cellular aging: results from a large psychiatric cohort study.
  Molecular psychiatry 2013 Verhoeven JE, Révész D, Epel ES, Lin J, Wolkowitz OM, Penninx BW
• Poor sleep quality potentiates stress-induced cytokine reactivity in postmenopausal women with high visceral abdominal adiposity.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2013 Prather AA, Puterman E, Epel ES, Dhabhar FS
• Effect of comprehensive lifestyle changes on telomerase activity and telomere length in men with biopsy-proven low-risk prostate cancer: 5-year follow-up of a descriptive pilot study.
  The Lancet. Oncology 2013 Ornish D, Lin J, Chan JM, Epel E, Kemp C, Weidner G, Marlin R, Frenda SJ, Magbanua MJM, Daubenmier J, Estay I, Hills NK, Chainani-Wu N, Carroll PR, Blackburn EH
• Longer leukocyte telomere length in Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula: a population-based study.
  Experimental gerontology 2013 Rehkopf DH, Dow WH, Rosero-Bixby L, Lin J, Epel ES, Blackburn EH
• Indirect effect of financial strain on daily cortisol output through daily negative to positive affect index in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2013 Puterman E, Haritatos J, Adler NE, Sidney S, Schwartz JE, Epel ES
• Cortisol patterns are associated with T cell activation in HIV.
  PloS one 2013 Patterson S, Moran P, Epel E, Sinclair E, Kemeny ME, Deeks SG, Bacchetti P, Acree M, Epling L, Kirschbaum C, Hecht FM
• Posttraumatic stress disorder is associated with emotional eating.
  Journal of traumatic stress 2013 Talbot LS, Maguen S, Epel ES, Metzler TJ, Neylan TC
• Childhood socioeconomic status, telomere length, and susceptibility to upper respiratory infection.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2013 Cohen S, Janicki-Deverts D, Turner RB, Marsland AL, Casselbrant ML, Li-Korotky HS, Epel ES, Doyle WJ
• Gender differences in the prospective associations of self-reported sleep quality with biomarkers of systemic inflammation and coagulation: findings from the Heart and Soul Study.
  Journal of psychiatric research 2013 Prather AA, Epel ES, Cohen BE, Neylan TC, Whooley MA
• Is the Belief in Meritocracy Palliative for Members of Low Status Groups? Evidence for a Benefit for Self-Esteem and Physical Health via Perceived Control.
  European journal of social psychology 2013 McCoy SK, Wellman JD, Cosley B, Saslow L, Epel E
• Multisystem resiliency moderates the major depression-telomere length association: findings from the Heart and Soul Study.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2013 Puterman E, Epel ES, Lin J, Blackburn EH, Gross JJ, Whooley MA, Cohen BE
• Stress and telomere biology: a lifespan perspective.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2013 Shalev I, Entringer S, Wadhwa PD, Wolkowitz OM, Puterman E, Lin J, Epel ES
• Self-reported mindfulness and cortisol during a Shamatha meditation retreat.
  Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association 2013 Jacobs TL, Shaver PR, Epel ES, Zanesco AP, Aichele SR, Bridwell DA, Rosenberg EL, King BG, Maclean KA, Sahdra BK, Kemeny ME, Ferrer E, Wallace BA, Saron CD
• Good stress, bad stress and oxidative stress: insights from anticipatory cortisol reactivity.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2013 Aschbacher K, O'Donovan A, Wolkowitz OM, Dhabhar FS, Su Y, Epel E
• Socioeconomic status, health behavior, and leukocyte telomere length in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2002.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2013 Needham BL, Adler N, Gregorich S, Rehkopf D, Lin J, Blackburn EH, Epel ES
• Accelerated cell aging in female APOE-ε4 carriers: implications for hormone therapy use.
  PloS one 2013 Jacobs EG, Kroenke C, Lin J, Epel ES, Kenna HA, Blackburn EH, Rasgon NL
• Food insecurity with past experience of restrained eating is a recipe for increased gestational weight gain.
  Appetite 2013 Laraia B, Epel E, Siega-Riz AM
• Chronic psychological stress and racial disparities in body mass index change between Black and White girls aged 10-19.
  Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine 2013 Tomiyama AJ, Puterman E, Epel ES, Rehkopf DH, Laraia BA
• Relation between leukocyte telomere length and incident coronary heart disease events (from the 1995 Canadian Nova Scotia Health Survey).
  The American journal of cardiology 2013 Ye S, Shaffer JA, Kang MS, Harlapur M, Muntner P, Epel E, Guernsey D, Schwartz JE, Davidson KW, Kirkland S, Honig LS, Shimbo D
• Recruitment and retention of pregnant women for a behavioral intervention: lessons from the maternal adiposity, metabolism, and stress (MAMAS) study.
  Preventing chronic disease 2013 Coleman-Phox K, Laraia BA, Adler N, Vieten C, Thomas M, Epel E
• Racial discrimination is associated with a measure of red blood cell oxidative stress: a potential pathway for racial health disparities.
  International journal of behavioral medicine 2012 Szanton SL, Rifkind JM, Mohanty JG, Miller ER, Thorpe RJ, Nagababu E, Epel ES, Zonderman AB, Evans MK
• Dysregulated relationship of inflammation and oxidative stress in major depression.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2012 Rawdin BJ, Mellon SH, Dhabhar FS, Epel ES, Puterman E, Su Y, Burke HM, Reus VI, Rosser R, Hamilton SP, Nelson JC, Wolkowitz OM
• Maternal psychosocial stress during pregnancy is associated with newborn leukocyte telomere length.
  American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2012 Entringer S, Epel ES, Lin J, Buss C, Shahbaba B, Blackburn EH, Simhan HN, Wadhwa PD
• Exaggerated neurobiological sensitivity to threat as a mechanism linking anxiety with increased risk for diseases of aging.
  Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2012 O'Donovan A, Slavich GM, Epel ES, Neylan TC
• An intricate dance: Life experience, multisystem resiliency, and rate of telomere decline throughout the lifespan.
  Social and personality psychology compass 2012 Puterman E, Epel E
• Association between kidney function and telomere length: the heart and soul study.
  American journal of nephrology 2012 Bansal N, Whooley MA, Regan M, McCulloch CE, Ix JH, Epel E, Blackburn E, Lin J, Hsu CY
• Depressive symptoms are not associated with leukocyte telomere length: findings from the Nova Scotia Health Survey (NSHS95), a population-based study.
  PloS one 2012 Shaffer JA, Epel E, Kang MS, Ye S, Schwartz JE, Davidson KW, Kirkland S, Honig LS, Shimbo D
• Chronic stress elevates telomerase activity in rats.
  Biology letters 2012 Beery AK, Lin J, Biddle JS, Francis DD, Blackburn EH, Epel ES
• Pain is associated with short leukocyte telomere length in women with fibromyalgia.
  The journal of pain 2012 Hassett AL, Epel E, Clauw DJ, Harris RE, Harte SE, Kairys A, Buyske S, Williams DA
• Omega-3 fatty acids, oxidative stress, and leukocyte telomere length: A randomized controlled trial.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2012 Kiecolt-Glaser JK, Epel ES, Belury MA, Andridge R, Lin J, Glaser R, Malarkey WB, Hwang BS, Blackburn E
• Educational attainment and late life telomere length in the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2012 Adler N, Pantell MS, O'Donovan A, Blackburn E, Cawthon R, Koster A, Opresko P, Newman A, Harris TB, Epel E
• Social hierarchy and depression: the role of emotion suppression.
  The Journal of psychology 2012 Langner CA, Epel ES, Matthews KA, Moskowitz JT, Adler NE
• Mood patterns based on momentary assessment of positive and negative moods over a day and coronary artery calcification in the CARDIA study.
  Psychosomatic medicine 2012 Kroenke CH, Seeman T, Matthews K, Adler N, Epel E
• Leptin concentrations in response to acute stress predict subsequent intake of comfort foods.
  Physiology & behavior 2012 Tomiyama AJ, Schamarek I, Lustig RH, Kirschbaum C, Puterman E, Havel PJ, Epel ES
• Socioeconomic status and cell aging in children.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2012 Needham BL, Fernandez JR, Lin J, Epel ES, Blackburn EH
• A pilot study of yogic meditation for family dementia caregivers with depressive symptoms: effects on mental health, cognition, and telomerase activity.
  International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2012 Lavretsky H, Epel ES, Siddarth P, Nazarian N, Cyr NS, Khalsa DS, Lin J, Blackburn E, Irwin MR
• Financial strain and impaired fasting glucose: the moderating role of physical activity in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study.
  Psychosomatic medicine 2012 Puterman E, Adler N, Matthews KA, Epel E
• Stress appraisals and cellular aging: a key role for anticipatory threat in the relationship between psychological stress and telomere length.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2012 O'Donovan A, Tomiyama AJ, Lin J, Puterman E, Adler NE, Kemeny M, Wolkowitz OM, Blackburn EH, Epel ES
• Changes in stress, eating, and metabolic factors are related to changes in telomerase activity in a randomized mindfulness intervention pilot study.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2011 Daubenmier J, Lin J, Blackburn E, Hecht FM, Kristeller J, Maninger N, Kuwata M, Bacchetti P, Havel PJ, Epel E
• What is eating you? Stress and the drive to eat.
  Appetite 2011 Groesz LM, McCoy S, Carl J, Saslow L, Stewart J, Adler N, Laraia B, Epel E
• Does cellular aging relate to patterns of allostasis? An examination of basal and stress reactive HPA axis activity and telomere length.
  Physiology & behavior 2011 Tomiyama AJ, O'Donovan A, Lin J, Puterman E, Lazaro A, Chan J, Dhabhar FS, Wolkowitz O, Kirschbaum C, Blackburn E, Epel E
• Maintenance of a positive outlook during acute stress protects against pro-inflammatory reactivity and future depressive symptoms.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2011 Aschbacher K, Epel E, Wolkowitz OM, Prather AA, Puterman E, Dhabhar FS
• Physical fitness and telomere length in patients with coronary heart disease: findings from the Heart and Soul Study.
  PloS one 2011 Krauss J, Farzaneh-Far R, Puterman E, Na B, Lin J, Epel E, Blackburn E, Whooley MA
• Telomerase, telomere length, and coronary artery calcium in black and white men in the CARDIA study.
  Atherosclerosis 2011 Kroenke CH, Pletcher MJ, Lin J, Blackburn E, Adler N, Matthews K, Epel E
• Shorter leukocyte telomere length in midlife women with poor sleep quality.
  Journal of aging research 2011 Prather AA, Puterman E, Lin J, O'Donovan A, Krauss J, Tomiyama AJ, Epel ES, Blackburn EH
• Higher fasting glucose levels are associated with reduced circulating angiogenic cell migratory capacity among healthy individuals.
  American journal of cardiovascular disease 2011 Aschbacher K, Chen Q, Varga M, Haddad DJ, Yeghiazarians Y, Epel E, Wolkowitz OM, Springer ML
• Mindfulness Intervention for Stress Eating to Reduce Cortisol and Abdominal Fat among Overweight and Obese Women: An Exploratory Randomized Controlled Study.
  Journal of obesity 2011 Daubenmier J, Kristeller J, Hecht FM, Maninger N, Kuwata M, Jhaveri K, Lustig RH, Kemeny M, Karan L, Epel E
• Comfort food is comforting to those most stressed: evidence of the chronic stress response network in high stress women.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2011 Tomiyama AJ, Dallman MF, Epel ES
• Autonomic and adrenocortical reactivity and buccal cell telomere length in kindergarten children.
  Psychosomatic medicine 2011 Kroenke CH, Epel E, Adler N, Bush NR, Obradovic J, Lin J, Blackburn E, Stamperdahl JL, Boyce WT
• Physical activity moderates effects of stressor-induced rumination on cortisol reactivity.
  Psychosomatic medicine 2011 Puterman E, O'Donovan A, Adler NE, Tomiyama AJ, Kemeny M, Wolkowitz OM, Epel E
• Telomeres and lifestyle factors: roles in cellular aging.
  Mutation research 2011 Lin J, Epel E, Blackburn E
• Stress exposure in intrauterine life is associated with shorter telomere length in young adulthood.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2011 Entringer S, Epel ES, Kumsta R, Lin J, Hellhammer DH, Blackburn EH, Wüst S, Wadhwa PD
• Serum BDNF levels before treatment predict SSRI response in depression.
  Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry 2011 Wolkowitz OM, Wolf J, Shelly W, Rosser R, Burke HM, Lerner GK, Reus VI, Nelson JC, Epel ES, Mellon SH
• Depression and leukocyte telomere length in patients with coronary heart disease: data from the Heart and Soul Study.
  Psychosomatic medicine 2011 Hoen PW, de Jonge P, Na BY, Farzaneh-Far R, Epel E, Lin J, Blackburn E, Whooley MA
• Cumulative inflammatory load is associated with short leukocyte telomere length in the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study.
  PloS one 2011 O'Donovan A, Pantell MS, Puterman E, Dhabhar FS, Blackburn EH, Yaffe K, Cawthon RM, Opresko PL, Hsueh WC, Satterfield S, Newman AB, Ayonayon HN, Rubin SM, Harris TB, Epel ES, Health Aging and Body …
• Childhood trauma associated with short leukocyte telomere length in posttraumatic stress disorder.
  Biological psychiatry 2011 O'Donovan A, Epel E, Lin J, Wolkowitz O, Cohen B, Maguen S, Metzler T, Lenoci M, Blackburn E, Neylan TC
• Leukocyte telomere length in major depression: correlations with chronicity, inflammation and oxidative stress--preliminary findings.
  PloS one 2011 Wolkowitz OM, Mellon SH, Epel ES, Lin J, Dhabhar FS, Su Y, Reus VI, Rosser R, Burke HM, Kupferman E, Compagnone M, Nelson JC, Blackburn EH
• Telomere shortening in formerly abused and never abused women.
  Biological research for nursing 2011 Humphreys J, Epel ES, Cooper BA, Lin J, Blackburn EH, Lee KA
• Chronic maternal depression is associated with reduced weight gain in latino infants from birth to 2 years of age.
  PloS one 2011 Wojcicki JM, Holbrook K, Lustig RH, Epel E, Caughey AB, Muñoz RF, Shiboski SC, Heyman MB
• The relative importance of predictors of body mass index change, overweight and obesity in adolescent girls.
  International journal of pediatric obesity : IJPO : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity 2011 Rehkopf DH, Laraia BA, Segal M, Braithwaite D, Epel E
• Intensive meditation training, immune cell telomerase activity, and psychological mediators.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2010 Jacobs TL, Epel ES, Lin J, Blackburn EH, Wolkowitz OM, Bridwell DA, Zanesco AP, Aichele SR, Sahdra BK, MacLean KA, King BG, Shaver PR, Rosenberg EL, Ferrer E, Wallace BA, Saron CD
• Greater endogenous estrogen exposure is associated with longer telomeres in postmenopausal women at risk for cognitive decline.
  Brain research 2010 Lin J, Kroenke CH, Epel E, Kenna HA, Wolkowitz OM, Blackburn E, Rasgon NL
• Sex differences in factors influencing recovery from arthroscopic knee surgery.
  Clinical orthopaedics and related research 2010 Rosenberger PH, Dhabhar FS, Epel E, Jokl P, Ickovics JR
• The power of exercise: buffering the effect of chronic stress on telomere length.
  PloS one 2010 Puterman E, Lin J, Blackburn E, O'Donovan A, Adler N, Epel E
• Trajectories of change in obesity and symptoms of depression: the CARDIA study.
  American journal of public health 2010 Needham BL, Epel ES, Adler NE, Kiefe C
• Depression gets old fast: do stress and depression accelerate cell aging?
  Depression and anxiety 2010 Wolkowitz OM, Epel ES, Reus VI, Mellon SH
• Socio-economic differentials in peripheral biology: cumulative allostatic load.
  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2010 Seeman T, Epel E, Gruenewald T, Karlamangla A, McEwen BS
• Association of marine omega-3 fatty acid levels with telomeric aging in patients with coronary heart disease.
  JAMA 2010 Farzaneh-Far R, Lin J, Epel ES, Harris WS, Blackburn EH, Whooley MA
• Black sheep get the blues: a psychobiological model of social rejection and depression.
  Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2010 Slavich GM, O'Donovan A, Epel ES, Kemeny ME
• Telomere length trajectory and its determinants in persons with coronary artery disease: longitudinal findings from the heart and soul study.
  PloS one 2010 Farzaneh-Far R, Lin J, Epel E, Lapham K, Blackburn E, Whooley MA
• Dynamics of telomerase activity in response to acute psychological stress.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2009 Epel ES, Lin J, Dhabhar FS, Wolkowitz OM, Puterman E, Karan L, Blackburn EH
• Surgical stress-induced immune cell redistribution profiles predict short-term and long-term postsurgical recovery. A prospective study.
  The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume 2009 Rosenberger PH, Ickovics JR, Epel E, Nadler E, Jokl P, Fulkerson JP, Tillie JM, Dhabhar FS
• Analyses and comparisons of telomerase activity and telomere length in human T and B cells: insights for epidemiology of telomere maintenance.
  Journal of immunological methods 2009 Lin J, Epel E, Cheon J, Kroenke C, Sinclair E, Bigos M, Wolkowitz O, Mellon S, Blackburn E
• Glucocorticoids. Mood, memory, and mechanisms.
  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2009 Wolkowitz OM, Burke H, Epel ES, Reus VI
• Can meditation slow rate of cellular aging? Cognitive stress, mindfulness, and telomeres.
  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2009 Epel E, Daubenmier J, Moskowitz JT, Folkman S, Blackburn E
• Low serum IL-10 concentrations and loss of regulatory association between IL-6 and IL-10 in adults with major depression.
  Journal of psychiatric research 2009 Dhabhar FS, Burke HM, Epel ES, Mellon SH, Rosser R, Reus VI, Wolkowitz OM
• Psychological and metabolic stress: a recipe for accelerated cellular aging?
  Hormones (Athens, Greece) 2009 Epel ES
• Socioeconomic status in relation to early menarche among black and white girls.
  Cancer causes & control : CCC 2008 Braithwaite D, Moore DH, Lustig RH, Epel ES, Ong KK, Rehkopf DH, Wang MC, Miller SM, Hiatt RA
• Pessimism correlates with leukocyte telomere shortness and elevated interleukin-6 in post-menopausal women.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2008 O'Donovan A, Lin J, Tillie J, Tillie JM, Dhabhar FS, Wolkowitz OM, Wolkowitz O, Blackburn EH, Blackburn E, Epel ES, Epel E
• The rate of leukocyte telomere shortening predicts mortality from cardiovascular disease in elderly men.
  Aging 2008 Epel ES, Merkin SS, Cawthon R, Blackburn EH, Adler NE, Pletcher MJ, Seeman TE
• Neurobiological and neuropsychiatric effects of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and DHEA sulfate (DHEAS).
  Frontiers in neuroendocrinology 2008 Maninger N, Wolkowitz OM, Reus VI, Epel ES, Mellon SH
• Dietary restraint and telomere length in pre- and postmenopausal women.
  Psychosomatic medicine 2008 Kiefer A, Lin J, Blackburn E, Epel E
• Increased telomerase activity and comprehensive lifestyle changes: a pilot study.
  The Lancet. Oncology 2008 Ornish D, Lin J, Daubenmier J, Weidner G, Epel E, Kemp C, Magbanua MJ, Marlin R, Yglecias L, Carroll PR, Blackburn EH
• A longitudinal study of coping, anxiety and glycemic control in adults with type 1 diabetes.
  Psychology & health 2008 Sultan S, Epel E, Sachon C, Vaillant G, Hartemann-Heurtier A
• Positive affect uniquely predicts lower risk of mortality in people with diabetes.
  Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association 2008 Moskowitz JT, Epel ES, Acree M
• When blue turns to grey: do stress and depression accelerate cell aging?
  The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry 2008 Wolkowitz OM, Epel ES, Mellon S
• Why egalitarianism might be good for your health: physiological thriving during stressful intergroup encounters.
  Psychological science 2007 Mendes WB, Gray HM, Mendoza-Denton R, Major B, Epel ES
• Psychosomatic medicine: the scientific foundation of the biopsychosocial model.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2007 Novack DH, Cameron O, Epel E, Ader R, Waldstein SR, Levenstein S, Antoni MH, Wainer AR
• Stress, eating and the reward system.
  Physiology & behavior 2007 Adam TC, Epel ES
• Socioeconomic status, race, and diurnal cortisol decline in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study.
  Psychosomatic medicine 2006 Cohen S, Schwartz JE, Epel E, Kirschbaum C, Sidney S, Seeman T
• Cell aging in relation to stress arousal and cardiovascular disease risk factors.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2005 Epel ES, Lin J, Wilhelm FH, Wolkowitz OM, Cawthon R, Adler NE, Dolbier C, Mendes WB, Blackburn EH
• Are stress eaters at risk for the metabolic syndrome?
  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2004 Epel E, Jimenez S, Brownell K, Stroud L, Stoney C, Niaura R
• Flattened cortisol rhythms in metastatic breast cancer patients.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2004 Abercrombie HC, Giese-Davis J, Sephton S, Epel ES, Turner-Cobb JM, Spiegel D
• Stress hormone-related psychopathology: pathophysiological and treatment implications.
  The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry 2001 Wolkowitz OM, Epel ES, Reus VI
• Stress may add bite to appetite in women: a laboratory study of stress-induced cortisol and eating behavior.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2001 Epel E, Lapidus R, McEwen B, Brownell K
• Relationship of subjective and objective social status with psychological and physiological functioning: preliminary data in healthy white women.
  Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association 2000 Adler NE, Epel ES, Castellazzo G, Ickovics JR
• Stress and body shape: stress-induced cortisol secretion is consistently greater among women with central fat.
  Psychosomatic medicine 2000 Epel ES, McEwen B, Seeman T, Matthews K, Castellazzo G, Brownell KD, Bell J, Ickovics JR
• Social status, anabolic activity, and fat distribution.
  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1999 Epel E, Adler N, Ickovics J, McEwen B
• Body shape ideals across gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, race, and age in personal advertisements.
  The International journal of eating disorders 1996 Epel ES, Spanakos A, Kasl-Godley J, Brownell KD
• The effects of message framing on mammography utilization.
  Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association 1995 Banks SM, Salovey P, Greener S, Rothman AJ, Moyer A, Beauvais J, Epel E
• Women's health research: policy and practice.
  IRB 1993 Ickovics JR, Epel ES