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Overview

Richard P. Sloan is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a specific emphasis on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. The subfields of study connected to Sloan's work include physiology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and psychiatry and mental health.

The main topics explored in Sloan's research comprise heart rate variability and autonomic control, cardiac health and mental health, stress responses and cortisol, diet and metabolism studies, mental health research topics, blood pressure and hypertension studies, and cardiovascular health and disease prevention.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Sloan cover various aspects of cognitive aging, diet, and cardiovascular health. These include:

  • Insights into the role of diet and dietary flavanols in cognitive aging: results of a randomized controlled trial, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Brain regions vulnerable and resistant to aging without Alzheimer's disease, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Cognitive impairment and World Trade Centre-related exposures, 2021, Nature Reviews Neurology
  • Dietary flavanols restore hippocampal-dependent memory in older adults with lower diet quality and lower habitual flavanol consumption, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Mitochondrial respiratory capacity modulates LPS-induced inflammatory signatures in human blood, 2020, Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health

Sloan frequently collaborates with a group of researchers, including Vincenzo Lauriola, Kathleen McIntyre, Adam M. Brickman, Caroline Trumpff, and Martin Picard. These co-authors have contributed to multiple projects alongside Sloan, indicating longstanding professional relationships.

Their work has been published in various reputable scientific venues, demonstrating a consistent focus across certain journals. Frequent publication venues include Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), arXiv (Cornell University), PLoS ONE, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Heart rate variability in depressive and anxiety disorders.

    Jack M. Gorman;Richard P. Sloan

  • Relation between depression after coronary artery bypass surgery and 12-month outcome: a prospective study.

    Ingrid Connerney;Peter A Shapiro;Joseph S McLaughlin;Emilia Bagiella

  • Molecular drivers and cortical spread of lateral entorhinal cortex dysfunction in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    Usman A Khan;Li Liu;Frank A Provenzano;Diego E Berman

  • Enhancing dentate gyrus function with dietary flavanols improves cognition in older adults

    Adam M. Brickman;Usman A. Khan;Frank A. Provenzano;Lok Kin Yeung

  • Maternal stress responses and anxiety during pregnancy: effects on fetal heart rate.

    Catherine Monk;William P. Fifer;Michael M. Myers;Richard P. Sloan

  • Mixed-effects models in psychophysiology.

    Emilia Bagiella;Emilia Bagiella;Richard P. Sloan;Richard P. Sloan;Richard P. Sloan;Daniel F. Heitjan

  • RR interval variability is inversely related to inflammatory markers: the CARDIA study.

    Richard P. Sloan;Richard P. Sloan;Richard P. Sloan;Heather McCreath;Kevin J. Tracey;Stephen Sidney

  • Claims about religious involvement and health outcomes.

    Richard P. Sloan;Emilia Bagiella

  • Effect of mental stress throughout the day on cardiac autonomic control.

    R.P. Sloan;P.A. Shapiro;E. Bagiella;E. Bagiella;S.M. Boni;S.M. Boni

  • Risk Factors, Confounding, and the Illusion of Statistical Control

    Nicholas J. S. Christenfeld;Richard P. Sloan;Douglas Carroll;Sander Greenland

  • Vagal rebound and recovery from psychological stress.

    Elizabeth Sibolboro Mezzacappa;Robert M. Kelsey;Edward S. Katkin;Richard P. Sloan

  • Cardiac autonomic control and hostility in healthy subjects

    Richard P. Sloan;Peter A. Shapiro;J. Thomas Bigger;Emilia Bagiella

  • The Impact of Aerobic Exercise on Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor and Neurocognition in Individuals With Schizophrenia: A Single-Blind, Randomized Clinical Trial

    David Kimhy;Julia Vakhrusheva;Matthew N. Bartels;Hilary F. Armstrong

  • Religious involvement and health outcomes among older persons in Taiwan.

    D.M. Yeager;Dana A. Glei;Melanie Au;Hui-Sheng Lin

  • The Effect of Aerobic Training and Cardiac Autonomic Regulation in Young Adults

    Richard P. Sloan;Peter A. Shapiro;Ronald E. DeMeersman;Emilia Bagiella

  • Sleep duration and quality in relation to autonomic nervous system measures: The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA)

    Cecilia Castro-Diehl;Ana V Diez Roux;Susan Redline;Teresa Seeman

  • Components of heart rate reactivity during mental arithmetic with and without speaking

    R.P. Sloan;J.B. Korten;M.M. Myers

  • Heart rate variability predicts levels of inflammatory markers: Evidence for the vagal anti-inflammatory pathway.

    Timothy M. Cooper;Paula S. McKinley;Teresa E. Seeman;Tse-Hwei Choo

  • Fetal heart rate reactivity differs by women's psychiatric status: an early marker for developmental risk?

    Catherine Monk;Richard P. Sloan;Michael M. Myers;Lauren Ellman

  • Enhanced stress reactivity in paediatric anxiety disorders: implications for future cardiovascular health.

    Catherine Monk;Pavel Kovelenko;Lauren M. Ellman;Richard P. Sloan

  • Cardiac autonomic control buffers blood pressure variability responses to challenge: a psychophysiologic model of coronary artery disease.

    Sloan Rp;Shapiro Pa;Bagiella E;Myers Mm

Frequent Co-Authors

Teresa E. Seeman
Teresa E. Seeman University of California, Los Angeles
Matthew M. Burg
Matthew M. Burg Yale University
Melanie M. Wall
Melanie M. Wall Columbia University
Carol D. Ryff
Carol D. Ryff University of Wisconsin–Madison
Elizabeth Brondolo
Elizabeth Brondolo St. John's University
Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Larry D. Jamner
Larry D. Jamner University of California, Irvine
Nicolas Rohleder
Nicolas Rohleder University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
David M. Almeida
David M. Almeida Pennsylvania State University
Anna L. Marsland
Anna L. Marsland University of Pittsburgh

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