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Overview

Shari R. Waldstein is affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a notable emphasis on subfields such as radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, cognitive neuroscience, health, psychiatry and mental health, as well as sociology and political science.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of main topics, including:

  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Folate and B Vitamins Research

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Alan B. Zonderman
  • Michele K. Evans
  • Leslie I. Katzel
  • Güray Erus
  • Christos Davatzikos

Shari R. Waldstein has published extensively in several academic venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Neurobiology of Aging
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • GeroScience
  • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Waldstein are:

  • Brain aging patterns in a large and diverse cohort of 49,482 individuals, 2024, Nature Medicine
  • Microvascular dysfunction and neurovascular uncoupling are exacerbated in peripheral artery disease, increasing the risk of cognitive decline in older adults, 2022, American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology
  • Race and other sociodemographic categories are differentially linked to multiple dimensions of interpersonal-level discrimination: Implications for intersectional, health research, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Cognitive decrement in older adults with symptomatic peripheral artery disease, 2021, GeroScience
  • Sociodemographic patterns of pain in an urban community sample: an examination of intersectional effects of sex, race, age, and poverty status, 2020, Pain

Best Publications

  • Pulse Pressure and Pulse Wave Velocity Are Related to Cognitive Decline in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging

    Shari R. Waldstein;S. Carrington Rice;Julian F. Thayer;Samer S. Najjar

  • Nonlinear Relations of Blood Pressure to Cognitive Function. The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging

    Shari R. Waldstein;Paul P. Giggey;Julian F. Thayer;Alan B. Zonderman

  • Central and autonomic nervous system integration in emotion.

    Dirk Hagemann;Shari R. Waldstein;Shari R. Waldstein;Julian F. Thayer

  • Neuropsychological correlates of hypertension: review and methodologic considerations.

    Shari R. Waldstein;Stephen B. Manuck;Christopher M. Ryan;Matthew F. Muldoon

  • Frontal electrocortical and cardiovascular reactivity during happiness and anger

    Shari R. Waldstein;Willem J. Kop;Louis A. Schmidt;Amy J. Haufler

  • Carotid Intimal Medial Thickness Predicts Cognitive Decline Among Adults Without Clinical Vascular Disease

    Carrington Rice Wendell;Alan B. Zonderman;E. Jeffrey Metter;Samer S. Najjar

  • Autonomic nervous system reactivity to positive and negative mood induction: The role of acute psychological responses and frontal electrocortical activity

    Willem J. Kop;Willem J. Kop;Stephen J. Synowski;Miranda E. Newell;Louis A. Schmidt

  • Body mass index is positively associated with bone mineral density in US older adults.

    Jennifer T. Lloyd;Dawn E. Alley;William G. Hawkes;Marc C. Hochberg

  • Acute Cholesterol Responses to Mental Stress and Change in Posture

    Matthew F. Muldoon;Elizabeth A. Bachen;Stephen B. Manuck;Shari R. Waldstein

  • Psychometric Limitations of the Mini-Mental State Examination Among Nondemented Older Adults: An Evaluation of Neurocognitive and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Correlates

    Robert J Spencer;Carrington R Wendell;Paul P Giggey;Leslie I Katzel

  • Relation of cognitive appraisal to cardiovascular reactivity, affect, and task engagement.

    Karl J. Maier;Shari R. Waldstein;Stephen J. Synowski

  • Similar patterns of cardiovascular response during emotional activation as a function of affective valence and arousal and gender.

    Serina A Neumann;Shari R Waldstein;Shari R Waldstein;Shari R Waldstein

  • Psychosomatic Medicine: The Scientific Foundation of the Biopsychosocial Model

    Dennis H. Novack;Oliver Cameron;Elissa Epel;Robert Ader

  • Alexithymia predicts attenuated autonomic reactivity, but prolonged recovery to anger recall in young women.

    Serina A Neumann;John J Sollers;Julian F Thayer;Shari R Waldstein

  • The rebirth of neuroscience in psychosomatic medicine, Part I: historical context, methods, and relevant basic science.

    Richard D. Lane;Shari R. Waldstein;Shari R. Waldstein;Margaret A. Chesney;J. Richard Jennings

  • Hypertension and neuropsychological function: A lifespan perspective

    Shari R. Waldstein

  • Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Accelerated Cognitive Decline With Aging

    Carrington R. Wendell;Carrington R. Wendell;John Gunstad;Shari R. Waldstein;Jeanette G. Wright

  • Diagnosis of hypertension and high blood pressure levels negatively affect cognitive function in older adults

    Shari R. Waldstein;Shari R. Waldstein;Jessica R. P. Brown;Karl J. Maier;Leslie I. Katzel

  • Hostility and distraction have differential influences on cardiovascular recovery from anger recall in women.

    Senna A. Neumann;Shari R. Waldstein;John J. Sellers Iii;Julian F. Thayer

  • Neuropsychology of Cardiovascular Disease

    Shari R. Waldstein;Merrill F. Elias

  • Parental assessments of internalizing and externalizing behavior and executive function in children with primary hypertension.

    Marc B. Lande;Heather Adams;Bonita Falkner;Shari R. Waldstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen B. Manuck
Stephen B. Manuck University of Pittsburgh
J. Richard Jennings
J. Richard Jennings University of Pittsburgh
Merrill F. Elias
Merrill F. Elias University of Maine
Nathan A. Fox
Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park
Robert L. Stout
Robert L. Stout Brown University
Anne D. Simons
Anne D. Simons University of Notre Dame
Julian F. Thayer
Julian F. Thayer University of California, Irvine
Louis A. Schmidt
Louis A. Schmidt McMaster University
Neil Schneiderman
Neil Schneiderman University of Miami
Margaret A. Chesney
Margaret A. Chesney University of California, San Francisco

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