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Audrey R. Tyrka is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Medicine, Neuroscience, and Psychology. Their work encompasses several subfields including Clinical Psychology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Molecular Biology, Behavioral Neuroscience, and Neurology.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics with notable attention to Child Abuse and Trauma, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Birth, Development, and Health, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies, and Tryptophan and brain disorders.

Recent published papers by Audrey R. Tyrka include:

  • A systematic review of childhood maltreatment and DNA methylation: candidate gene and epigenome-wide approaches (2021) in Translational Psychiatry
  • Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of PTSD across 10 military and civilian cohorts identifies methylation changes in AHRR (2020) in Nature Communications
  • Stress and Psychiatric Disorders: The Role of Mitochondria (2020) in Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
  • Mitochondria and early-life adversity (2021) in Mitochondrion
  • Molecular markers of neuroendocrine function and mitochondrial biogenesis associated with early life stress (2020) in Psychoneuroendocrinology

Audrey R. Tyrka has frequently collaborated with several other researchers, including Teresa E. Daniels, Stephanie H. Parade, Linda L. Carpenter, Lawrence H. Price, and Emily Zitkovsky.

Their work has been published repeatedly in venues such as Biological Psychiatry, Psychoneuroendocrinology, Brain Stimulation, Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science, and Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health.

Best Publications

  • Deep Brain Stimulation of the Ventral Capsule/Ventral Striatum for Treatment-Resistant Depression

    Donald A. Malone;Darin D. Dougherty;Ali R. Rezai;Linda L. Carpenter

  • Decreased Adrenocorticotropic Hormone and Cortisol Responses to Stress in Healthy Adults Reporting Significant Childhood Maltreatment

    Linda L. Carpenter;John P. Carvalho;Audrey R. Tyrka;Audrey R. Tyrka;Lauren M. Wier

  • Association between Plasma IL-6 Response to Acute Stress and Early-Life Adversity in Healthy Adults

    Linda L Carpenter;Linda L Carpenter;Cyrena E Gawuga;Audrey R Tyrka;Audrey R Tyrka;Janet K Lee

  • Childhood adversity and epigenetic modulation of the leukocyte glucocorticoid receptor: preliminary findings in healthy adults.

    Audrey R. Tyrka;Audrey R. Tyrka;Lawrence H. Price;Lawrence H. Price;Carmen Marsit;Oakland C. Walters

  • A Randomized Sham-Controlled Trial of Deep Brain Stimulation of the Ventral Capsule/Ventral Striatum for Chronic Treatment-Resistant Depression

    Darin D. Dougherty;Ali R. Rezai;Linda L. Carpenter;Robert H. Howland

  • Sex differences in emotional and physiological responses to the Trier Social Stress Test.

    Megan M. Kelly;Audrey R. Tyrka;George M. Anderson;Lawrence H. Price

  • Childhood maltreatment and telomere shortening: preliminary support for an effect of early stress on cellular aging.

    Audrey R. Tyrka;Audrey R. Tyrka;Lawrence H. Price;Lawrence H. Price;Hung-Teh Kao;Hung-Teh Kao;Barbara Porton;Barbara Porton

  • Telomeres and Early-Life Stress: An Overview

    Lawrence H. Price;Hung-Teh Kao;Hung-Teh Kao;Darcy E. Burgers;Linda L. Carpenter;Linda L. Carpenter

  • Effect of childhood physical abuse on cortisol stress response

    Linda L. Carpenter;Thaddeus T. Shattuck;Audrey R. Tyrka;Thomas D. Geracioti

  • Effect of childhood emotional abuse and age on cortisol responsivity in adulthood

    Linda L. Carpenter;Audrey R. Tyrka;Nicole S. Ross;Lamya Khoury

  • Sex differences in the use of coping strategies: predictors of anxiety and depressive symptoms

    Megan M. Kelly;Audrey R. Tyrka M.D.;Audrey R. Tyrka M.D.;Lawrence H. Price;Lawrence H. Price;Linda L. Carpenter;Linda L. Carpenter

  • Gene–environment interactions: early life stress and risk for depressive and anxiety disorders

    Nicole R. Nugent;Nicole R. Nugent;Audrey R. Tyrka;Audrey R. Tyrka;Linda L. Carpenter;Linda L. Carpenter;Lawrence H. Price;Lawrence H. Price

  • Childhood parental loss and adult hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal function.

    Audrey R. Tyrka;Audrey R. Tyrka;Lauren Wier;Lawrence H. Price;Lawrence H. Price;Nicole Ross

  • Interaction of Childhood Maltreatment with the Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Receptor Gene: Effects on Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Reactivity

    Audrey R. Tyrka;Lawrence H. Price;Joel Gelernter;Caroline Schepker

  • Depression and telomere length: A meta-analysis

    Kathryn K. Ridout;Kathryn K. Ridout;Samuel J. Ridout;Samuel J. Ridout;Lawrence H. Price;Lawrence H. Price;Srijan Sen

  • Alterations of Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number and Telomere Length With Early Adversity and Psychopathology

    Audrey R. Tyrka;Audrey R. Tyrka;Stephanie H. Parade;Lawrence H. Price;Lawrence H. Price;Hung-Teh Kao

  • Early life adversity and telomere length: a meta-analysis

    Kathryn K. Ridout;Mateus Levandowski;Samuel J. Ridout;Samuel J. Ridout;Lindsay Gantz

  • Prospective predictors of the onset of anorexic and bulimic syndromes

    Audrey R. Tyrka;Ingrid Waldron;Julia A. Graber;Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

  • Network Mechanisms of Clinical Response to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder

    Noah S. Philip;Noah S. Philip;Jennifer Barredo;Mascha van ’t Wout-Frank;Audrey R. Tyrka

  • Childhood maltreatment and adult personality disorder symptoms: influence of maltreatment type

    Audrey R. Tyrka;Audrey R. Tyrka;Margaret C. Wyche;Megan M. Kelly;Megan M. Kelly;Lawrence H. Price;Lawrence H. Price

  • Development and Psychopathology

    Elizabeth P. Hayden;C. Emily Durbin

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence H. Price
Lawrence H. Price Brown University
Noah S. Philip
Noah S. Philip Brown University
Ronald Seifer
Ronald Seifer Brown University
Lawrence H. Sweet
Lawrence H. Sweet University of Georgia
George I. Papakostas
George I. Papakostas Harvard University
David Mischoulon
David Mischoulon Harvard University
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn Columbia University
Julia A. Graber
Julia A. Graber University of Florida
Joel Gelernter
Joel Gelernter Yale University
M. Tracie Shea
M. Tracie Shea Brown University

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