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Overview

Julian F. Thayer is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on Medicine, Neuroscience, and Psychology. Within these broader fields, their work includes significant contributions to Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Behavioral Neuroscience.

The researcher's studies often revolve around several key topics, including Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, Mental Health Research Topics, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development.

Julian F. Thayer has published extensively in various academic journals. The most frequent venues include:

  • International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Psychophysiology
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback

Their most recent papers include:

  • Stress and Health: A Review of Psychobiological Processes, 2020, Annual Review of Psychology
  • International Consensus Based Review and Recommendations for Minimum Reporting Standards in Research on Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation (Version 2020), 2021, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Heart rate variability in the prediction of mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis of healthy and patient populations, 2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Better Safe Than Sorry: A Common Signature of General Vulnerability for Psychopathology, 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • The compassionate vagus: A meta-analysis on the connection between compassion and heart rate variability, 2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Throughout their career, Julian F. Thayer has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including:

  • DeWayne P. Williams
  • Mara Mather
  • Julian Koenig
  • Kaoru Nashiro
  • Jungwon Min

Best Publications

  • A meta-analysis of heart rate variability and neuroimaging studies: implications for heart rate variability as a marker of stress and health.

    Julian F. Thayer;Julian F. Thayer;Fredrik Åhs;Mats Fredrikson;John J. Sollers

  • A model of neurovisceral integration in emotion regulation and dysregulation.

    Julian F Thayer;Richard D Lane

  • The relationship of autonomic imbalance, heart rate variability and cardiovascular disease risk factors

    Julian F. Thayer;Shelby S. Yamamoto;Jos F. Brosschot

  • Claude Bernard and the heart-brain connection: further elaboration of a model of neurovisceral integration.

    Julian F. Thayer;Richard D. Lane

  • Heart rate variability, prefrontal neural function, and cognitive performance: the neurovisceral integration perspective on self-regulation, adaptation, and health.

    Julian F. Thayer;Julian F. Thayer;Julian F. Thayer;Anita L. Hansen;Evelyn Saus-Rose;Bjorn Helge Johnsen

  • Heart Rate Variability and Cardiac Vagal Tone in Psychophysiological Research - Recommendations for Experiment Planning, Data Analysis, and Data Reporting.

    Sylvain Laborde;Emma Mosley;Emma Mosley;Julian F. Thayer

  • The perseverative cognition hypothesis: a review of worry, prolonged stress-related physiological activation, and health.

    Jos F. Brosschot;William Gerin;Julian F. Thayer

  • The role of vagal function in the risk for cardiovascular disease and mortality.

    Julian F. Thayer;Richard D. Lane

  • The Continuing Problem of False Positives in Repeated Measures ANOVA in Psychophysiology: A Multivariate Solution

    Michael W. Vasey;Julian F. Thayer

  • Autonomic characteristics of generalized anxiety disorder and worry.

    Julian F. Thayer;Bruce H. Friedman;Thomas D. Borkovec

  • Vagal influence on working memory and attention.

    Anita Lill Hansen;Bjørn Helge Johnsen;Julian F. Thayer

  • Neural correlates of heart rate variability during emotion

    Richard D. Lane;Kateri McRae;Kateri McRae;Eric M. Reiman;Kewei Chen

  • Heart rate variability as a transdiagnostic biomarker of psychopathology

    Theodore P. Beauchaine;Julian F. Thayer

  • Autonomic balance revisited: Panic anxiety and heart rate variability

    Bruce H. Friedman;Julian F. Thayer

  • Beyond Heart Rate Variability: Vagal Regulation of Allostatic Systems

    Julian F. Thayer;Esther Sternberg

  • Psychosomatics and psychopathology: looking up and down from the brain

    Julian F. Thayer;Jos F. Brosschot

  • Sex differences in healthy human heart rate variability: A meta-analysis.

    Julian Koenig;Julian Koenig;Julian F. Thayer

  • Stress and Health: A Review of Psychobiological Processes.

    Daryl B O'Connor;Julian F Thayer;Kavita Vedhara

  • Expanding stress theory: prolonged activation and perseverative cognition.

    Jos F. Brosschot;Suzanne Pieper;Julian F. Thayer

  • Daily worry is related to low heart rate variability during waking and the subsequent nocturnal sleep period.

    Jos F. Brosschot;Eduard Van Dijk;Julian F. Thayer

  • Anxiety and autonomic flexibility: a cardiovascular approach.

    Bruce H Friedman;Julian F Thayer

Frequent Co-Authors

Jos F. Brosschot
Jos F. Brosschot Leiden University
Richard D. Lane
Richard D. Lane University of Arizona
Bjørn Helge Johnsen
Bjørn Helge Johnsen University of Bergen
Michael Kaess
Michael Kaess University of Bern
Michael W. Vasey
Michael W. Vasey The Ohio State University
Andrew H. Kemp
Andrew H. Kemp Swansea University
Cristina Ottaviani
Cristina Ottaviani Sapienza University of Rome
Inger Hilde Nordhus
Inger Hilde Nordhus University of Bergen
Ståle Pallesen
Ståle Pallesen University of Bergen
Mara Mather
Mara Mather University of Southern California

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