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  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Gary G. Berntson is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields including neuroscience, psychology, and medicine. The scientist's work focuses on understanding complex neurobehavioral systems and physiological regulation.

Berntson's research contributions include studies on the neuroendocrine regulation of behavior, neural dynamics and brain function, as well as heart rate variability and autonomic control. Other topics covered include neuroscience of respiration and sleep, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, non-invasive vital sign monitoring, and EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

They have published papers in several notable venues. These include:

  • "Neural Circuits of Interoception" (2020) in Trends in Neurosciences
  • "Publication guidelines for human heart rate and heart rate variability studies in psychophysiology-Part 1: Physiological underpinnings and foundations of measurement" (2024) in Psychophysiology
  • "Multilevel analysis: Integrating multiple levels of neurobehavioral systems" (2021) in Social Neuroscience
  • "Advisory Board and Contents" (2020) in Trends in Neurosciences

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Trends in Neurosciences
  • Psychophysiology
  • Social Neuroscience

Berntson has collaborated with several researchers repeatedly. Frequent co-authors are:

  • Greg J. Norman
  • Kelly E. Faig
  • Sahib S. Khalsa
  • Elizabeth A. Necka
  • Karen S. Quigley

Their main fields of study cover:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Key subfields include:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health

Gary G. Berntson has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1993.

Best Publications

  • Heart rate variability: Origins, methods, and interpretive caveats

    Gary G. Berntson;J. Thomas Bigger;Dwain L. Eckberg;Paul Grossman

  • Handbook of psychophysiology

    John T. Cacioppo;Louis G. Tassinary;Gary G. Berntson

  • Relationship between attitudes and evaluative space: A critical review, with emphasis on the separability of positive and negative substrates.

    John T. Cacioppo;Gary G. Berntson

  • The affect system has parallel and integrative processing components: Form follows function.

    John T. Cacioppo;Wendi L. Gardner;Gary G. Berntson

  • The psychophysiology of emotion.

    Jeff T. Larsen;Gary G. Berntson;Kirsten M. Poehlmann;Tiffany A. Ito

  • Beyond Bipolar Conceptualizations and Measures: The Case of Attitudes and Evaluative Space:

    John T. Cacioppo;Wendi L. Gardner;Gary G. Berntson

  • Loneliness and health: potential mechanisms.

    John T Cacioppo;Louise C Hawkley;L Elizabeth Crawford;John M Ernst

  • Respiratory sinus arrhythmia: Autonomic origins, physiological mechanisms, and psychophysiological implications.

    Gary G. Berntson;John T. Cacioppo;Karen S. Quigley

  • Loneliness within a nomological net: An evolutionary perspective

    John T. Cacioppo;Louise C. Hawkley;John M. Ernst;Mary Burleson

  • Rudimentary Determinants of Attitudes. II: Arm Flexion and Extension Have Differential Effects on Attitudes

    John T. Cacioppo;Joseph R. Priester;Gary G. Berntson

  • Autonomic determinism: the modes of autonomic control, the doctrine of autonomic space, and the laws of autonomic constraint.

    Gary G. Berntson;John T. Cacioppo;Karen S. Quigley

  • Handbook of psychophysiology, 2nd ed.

    John T. Cacioppo;Louis G. Tassinary;Gary G. Berntson

  • LONELINESS IN EVERYDAY LIFE: CARDIOVASCULAR ACTIVITY, PSYCHOSOCIAL CONTEXT, AND HEALTH BEHAVIORS

    Louise C. Hawkley;Mary H. Burleson;Gary G. Berntson;John T. Cacioppo

  • Multilevel integrative analyses of human behavior: social neuroscience and the complementing nature of social and biological approaches.

    John T. Cacioppo;Gary G. Berntson;John F. Sheridan;Martha K. McClintock

  • Lonely traits and concomitant physiological processes : the MacArthur social neuroscience studies

    John T Cacioppo;John M Ernst;Mary H Burleson;Martha K McClintock

  • Social isolation: Social isolation

    John T. Cacioppo;Louise C. Hawkley;Greg J. Norman;Gary G. Berntson

  • Autonomic cardiac control. III. Psychological stress and cardiac response in autonomic space as revealed by pharmacological blockades.

    Gary G. Berntson;John T. Cacioppo;Philip F. Binkley;Bert N. Uchino

  • Cardiac psychophysiology and autonomic space in humans: empirical perspectives and conceptual implications.

    Gary G. Berntson;John T. Cacioppo;Karen S. Quigley

  • Do Lonely Days Invade the Nights? Potential Social Modulation of Sleep Efficiency

    John T. Cacioppo;Louise C. Hawkley;Gary G. Berntson;John M. Ernst

  • The Anatomy of Loneliness

    John T. Cacioppo;Louise C. Hawkley;Gary G. Berntson

Frequent Co-Authors

John T. Cacioppo
John T. Cacioppo University of Chicago
Louise C. Hawkley
Louise C. Hawkley University of Chicago
Martin Sarter
Martin Sarter University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Gregory J. Norman
Gregory J. Norman Dexcom (United States)
Sarah T. Boysen
Sarah T. Boysen The Ohio State University
Karen S. Quigley
Karen S. Quigley Northeastern University
J. Michael Walker
J. Michael Walker Indiana University
Ronald Glaser
Ronald Glaser The Ohio State University
Curt A. Sandman
Curt A. Sandman University of California, Irvine
Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser
Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser The Ohio State University

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