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Peter J. Gianaros is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research primarily covers the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with specific attention to cardiology, cognitive neuroscience, and mental health.

Their scientific contributions focus on several intersecting subfields, including Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The main topics their work addresses include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention
  • Cardiac Health and Mental Health
  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies

Peter J. Gianaros has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Psychophysiology
  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine

Recent papers featuring Gianaros or closely linked authors are:

  • "The self in context: brain systems linking mental and physical health" (2021), published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience
  • "Functional MRI Can Be Highly Reliable, but It Depends on What You Measure: A Commentary on Elliott et al. (2020)" (2021), published in Psychological Science
  • "Publication guidelines for human heart rate and heart rate variability studies in psychophysiology-Part 1: Physiological underpinnings and foundations of measurement" (2024), published in Psychophysiology
  • "Long-Term Ambient Air Pollution Exposures and Circulating and Stimulated Inflammatory Mediators in a Cohort of Midlife Adults" (2021), published in Environmental Health Perspectives
  • "Cortical thickness and resting-state cardiac function across the lifespan: A cross-sectional pooled mega-analysis" (2020), published in Psychophysiology

Collaborations have been a significant aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Anna L. Marsland
  • Stephen B. Manuck
  • Timothy Verstynen
  • Thomas E. Kraynak
  • Javier Rasero

Best Publications

  • Central role of the brain in stress and adaptation: links to socioeconomic status, health, and disease.

    Bruce S. McEwen;Peter J. Gianaros

  • Stress- and Allostasis-Induced Brain Plasticity

    Bruce S. McEwen;Peter J. Gianaros

  • A Stage Model of Stress and Disease

    Sheldon Cohen;Peter J. Gianaros;Stephen B. Manuck

  • A questionnaire for the assessment of the multiple dimensions of motion sickness.

    Peter J. Gianaros;Eric R. Muth;J. Toby Mordkoff;Max E. Levine

  • 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

  • Prospective reports of chronic life stress predict decreased grey matter volume in the hippocampus

    Peter J. Gianaros;J. Richard Jennings;Lei K. Sheu;Phil J. Greer

  • A Sensitive and Specific Neural Signature for Picture-Induced Negative Affect

    Luke J. Chang;Peter J. Gianaros;Stephen B. Manuck;Anjali Krishnan

  • 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

  • The embodiment of emotional feelings in the brain

    Neil A Harrison;Marcus A Gray;Peter J Gianaros;Hugo D Critchley

  • Brain-Body Pathways Linking Psychological Stress and Physical Health

    Peter J. Gianaros;Tor D. Wager

  • Individual differences in stressor-evoked blood pressure reactivity vary with activation, volume, and functional connectivity of the amygdala.

    Peter J. Gianaros;Lei K. Sheu;Karen A. Matthews;J. Richard Jennings

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

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

  • Regional cerebral blood flow correlates with heart period and high-frequency heart period variability during working-memory tasks: Implications for the cortical and subcortical regulation of cardiac autonomic activity

    Peter J. Gianaros;Frederik M. Van der Veen;J. Richard Jennings

  • Perigenual anterior cingulate morphology covaries with perceived social standing

    Peter J. Gianaros;Jeffrey A. Horenstein;Sheldon Cohen;Karen A. Matthews

  • 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

  • Generalizable representations of pain, cognitive control, and negative emotion in medial frontal cortex

    Philip A. Kragel;Michiko Kano;Lukas Van Oudenhove;Huynh Giao Ly

  • Potential neural embedding of parental social standing

    Peter J. Gianaros;Jeffrey A. Horenstein;Ahmad R. Hariri;Lei K. Sheu

  • Anterior cingulate activity correlates with blood pressure during stress.

    Gianaros Pj;Derbyshire Sw;May Jc;Siegle Gj

  • The self in context: brain systems linking mental and physical health

    Leonie Koban;Peter J. Gianaros;Hedy Kober;Tor D. Wager

  • 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

  • Long-chain omega-3 fatty acid intake is associated positively with corticolimbic gray matter volume in healthy adults

    Sarah M. Conklin;Peter J. Gianaros;Sarah M. Brown;Jeffrey K. Yao

  • Altered functioning of the executive control circuit in late-life depression: episodic and persistent phenomena.

    Howard J. Aizenstein;Meryl A. Butters;Minjie Wu;Laura M. Mazurkewicz

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen B. Manuck
Stephen B. Manuck University of Pittsburgh
J. Richard Jennings
J. Richard Jennings University of Pittsburgh
Anna L. Marsland
Anna L. Marsland University of Pittsburgh
Kirk I. Erickson
Kirk I. Erickson University of Pittsburgh
Karen A. Matthews
Karen A. Matthews University of Pittsburgh
Ahmad R. Hariri
Ahmad R. Hariri Duke University
J. David Creswell
J. David Creswell Carnegie Mellon University
Aidan G. C. Wright
Aidan G. C. Wright University of Pittsburgh
Sheldon Cohen
Sheldon Cohen Carnegie Mellon University
Julian F. Thayer
Julian F. Thayer University of California, Irvine

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