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Overview

Anna L. Marsland is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, including Medicine, Psychology, and Neuroscience, with a significant focus on Behavioral Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Biological Psychiatry, and Physiology.

The main topics explored in their work address Stress Responses and Cortisol, Tryptophan and brain disorders, Mental Health Research Topics, Cardiac Health and Mental Health, Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life, COVID-19 and Mental Health, and Cancer-related cognitive impairment studies.

Anna L. Marsland has contributed to multiple research articles published across frequent and relevant scientific venues such as Brain Behavior and Immunity, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Supportive Care in Cancer, Psychosomatic Medicine, and Biological Psychiatry.

Recent papers include:

  • Long-Term Ambient Air Pollution Exposures and Circulating and Stimulated Inflammatory Mediators in a Cohort of Midlife Adults (2021) published in Environmental Health Perspectives
  • Meta-analysis of age and actigraphy-assessed sleep characteristics across the lifespan (2021) published in SLEEP
  • Longitudinal relationships of cytokines, depression and anhedonia in depressed adolescents (2020) published in Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Psychometric Evaluation of a Big Five Personality State Scale for Intensive Longitudinal Studies (2021) published in Assessment
  • Glucocorticoid resistance and β2-adrenergic receptor signaling pathways promote peripheral pro-inflammatory conditions associated with chronic psychological stress: A systematic review across species (2021) published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Throughout their career, Marsland has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including Peter J. Gianaros, Stephen B. Manuck, Kirk I. Erickson, Aidan G.C. Wright, and George Grove.

Best Publications

  • The effects of acute psychological stress on circulating and stimulated inflammatory markers: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Anna L. Marsland;Catherine Walsh;Kimberly Lockwood;Neha A. John-Henderson

  • Psychosocial adjustment of siblings of children with cancer: a systematic review.

    Melissa A. Alderfer;Kristin A. Long;E. Anne Lown;Anna L. Marsland

  • Family adjustment to childhood cancer: a systematic review.

    Kristin A. Long;Anna L. Marsland

  • Interleukin-6 Covaries Inversely with Hippocampal Grey Matter Volume in Middle-Aged Adults

    Anna L. Marsland;Peter J. Gianaros;Sarah M. Abramowitch;Stephen B. Manuck

  • Alterations in Resting-State Functional Connectivity Link Mindfulness Meditation With Reduced Interleukin-6: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    J. David Creswell;Adrienne A. Taren;Emily K. Lindsay;Carol M. Greco

  • Brain morphology links systemic inflammation to cognitive function in midlife adults.

    Anna L. Marsland;Peter J. Gianaros;Dora C.-H. Kuan;Lei K. Sheu

  • Mindfulness Meditation Training Alters Stress-Related Amygdala Resting State Functional Connectivity: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Adrienne A. Taren;Adrienne A. Taren;Peter J. Gianaros;Carol M. Greco;Emily K. Lindsay

  • Negative emotions and acute physiological responses to stress.

    Pamela J. Feldman;Sheldon Cohen;Stephen J. Lepore;Karen A. Matthews

  • How Disturbed Sleep May Be a Risk Factor for Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes A Hypothesis

    Michele L. Okun;James M. Roberts;Anna L. Marsland;Martica Hall

  • Sleep and Antibody Response to Hepatitis B Vaccination

    Aric A Prather;Martica Hall;Jacqueline M Fury;Diana C Ross

  • Lymphocyte subset and cellular immune responses to a brief experimental stressor.

    Elizabeth A. Bachen;Stephen B. Manuck;Anna L. Marsland;Sheldon Cohen

  • Mindfulness Meditation Training and Executive Control Network Resting State Functional Connectivity: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

    Adrienne A Taren;Peter J Gianaros;Carol M Greco;Emily K Lindsay

  • Stress, immune reactivity and susceptibility to infectious disease

    Anna L. Marsland;Elizabeth A. Bachen;Sheldon Cohen;Bruce Rabin

  • Interleukin-6 covaries inversely with cognitive performance among middle-aged community volunteers.

    Anna L Marsland;Karen L Petersen;Rama Sathanoori;Matthew F Muldoon

  • Psychosocial functioning and risk factors among siblings of children with cancer: An updated systematic review.

    Kristin A. Long;Vicky Lehmann;Vicky Lehmann;Cynthia A. Gerhardt;Cynthia A. Gerhardt;Aubrey L. Carpenter

  • Cardiovascular Reactivity and the Course of Immune Response to an Acute Psychological Stressor

    Tracy B Herbert;Sheldon Cohen;Anna L Marsland;Elizabeth A Bachen

  • The pathogenicity of behavior and its neuroendocrine mediation: an example from coronary artery disease.

    Stephen B. Manuck;Anna L. Marsland;Jay R. Kaplan;J. Koudy Williams

  • Immune system differences in men with hypo- or hypercholesterolemia.

    Matthew F. Muldoon;Anna Marsland;Janine D. Flory;Bruce S. Rabin

  • Antagonistic characteristics are positively associated with inflammatory markers independently of trait negative emotionality.

    Anna L. Marsland;Aric A. Prather;Karen L. Petersen;Sheldon Cohen

  • Mediation of the Acute Stress Response by the Skeleton

    Julian Meyer Berger;Parminder Singh;Lori Khrimian;Donald A. Morgan

  • Associations between stress, trait negative affect, acute immune reactivity, and antibody response to hepatitis B injection in healthy young adults.

    Anna L. Marsland;Sheldon Cohen;Bruce S. Rabin;Stephen B. Manuck

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen B. Manuck
Stephen B. Manuck University of Pittsburgh
Peter J. Gianaros
Peter J. Gianaros University of Pittsburgh
Sheldon Cohen
Sheldon Cohen Carnegie Mellon University
Aidan G. C. Wright
Aidan G. C. Wright University of Pittsburgh
Kirk I. Erickson
Kirk I. Erickson University of Pittsburgh
Karen A. Matthews
Karen A. Matthews University of Pittsburgh
J. David Creswell
J. David Creswell Carnegie Mellon University
Melissa A. Alderfer
Melissa A. Alderfer Thomas Jefferson University
Kirk Warren Brown
Kirk Warren Brown Carnegie Mellon University
Janine D. Flory
Janine D. Flory Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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