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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Steve W. Cole is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on Behavioral Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Biological Psychiatry, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Oncology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Cancer, Stress, Anesthesia, and Immune Response
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Cancer survivorship and care
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries

Steve W. Cole has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including Michael R. Irwin, Julienne E. Bower, Teresa E. Seeman, Jennifer M. Knight, and Judith Carroll.

Recent publications include the following:

  • "Perioperative COX2 and β-adrenergic blockade improves biomarkers of tumor metastasis, immunity, and inflammation in colorectal cancer: A randomized controlled trial," 2020, Cancer
  • "Lifetime exposure to smoking, epigenetic aging, and morbidity and mortality in older adults," 2022, Clinical Epigenetics
  • "Beta-blockade enhances anthracycline control of metastasis in triple-negative breast cancer," 2023, Science Translational Medicine
  • "Population-based RNA profiling in Add Health finds social disparities in inflammatory and antiviral gene regulation to emerge by young adulthood," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Accelerated epigenetic aging mediates link between adverse childhood experiences and depressive symptoms in older adults: Results from the Health and Retirement Study," 2022, SSM - Population Health

In 2011, Steve W. Cole was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Chronic stress promotes tumor growth and angiogenesis in a mouse model of ovarian carcinoma

    Premal H Thaker;Liz Y Han;Aparna A Kamat;Jesusa M Arevalo

  • The influence of bio-behavioural factors on tumour biology: pathways and mechanisms

    Michael H. Antoni;Susan K. Lutgendorf;Steven W. Cole;Firdaus S. Dhabhar

  • A video game improves behavioral outcomes in adolescents and young adults with cancer: a randomized trial.

    Pamela M. Kato;Steve W. Cole;Andrew S. Bradlyn;Bradley H Pollock

  • The Neuroendocrinology of Social Isolation

    John T. Cacioppo;Stephanie Cacioppo;John P. Capitanio;Steven W. Cole

  • Low early-life social class leaves a biological residue manifested by decreased glucocorticoid and increased proinflammatory signaling

    Gregory E. Miller;Edith Chen;Alexandra K. Fok;Hope Walker

  • Social regulation of gene expression in human leukocytes

    Steve W Cole;Louise C Hawkley;Jesusa M Arevalo;Caroline Y Sung

  • The sympathetic nervous system induces a metastatic switch in primary breast cancer.

    Erica Kate Sloan;Saul J Priceman;Benjamin F Cox;Stephanie Yu

  • Sleep deprivation and activation of morning levels of cellular and genomic markers of inflammation

    Michael R. Irwin;Minge Wang;Capella O. Campomayor;Alicia Collado-Hidalgo

  • Reciprocal regulation of the neural and innate immune systems.

    Michael R. Irwin;Steven W. Cole

  • Health Psychology: Developing Biologically Plausible Models Linking the Social World and Physical Health

    Gregory Miller;Edith Chen;Steve W. Cole

  • Selective Alteration of Personality and Social Behavior by Serotonergic Intervention

    Brian Knutson;Owen M. Wolkowitz;Steve W. Cole;Theresa Chan

  • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction training reduces loneliness and pro-inflammatory gene expression in older adults: A small randomized controlled trial

    J. David Creswell;Michael R. Irwin;Lisa J. Burklund;Matthew D. Lieberman

  • Social neuroscience and health: neurophysiological mechanisms linking social ties with physical health.

    Naomi I Eisenberger;Steve W Cole

  • A Functional Genomic Fingerprint of Chronic Stress in Humans: Blunted Glucocorticoid and Increased NF-κB Signaling

    Gregory E. Miller;Edith Chen;Jasmen Sze;Teresa J Marin

  • A functional genomic perspective on human well-being.

    Barbara L. Fredrickson;Karen M. Grewen;Kimberly A. Coffey;Sara B. Algoe

  • Social stress up-regulates inflammatory gene expression in the leukocyte transcriptome via β-adrenergic induction of myelopoiesis

    Nicole D Powell;Erica Kate Sloan;Michael T Bailey;Jesusa Mg Arevalo

  • Stress hormone-mediated invasion of ovarian cancer cells.

    Anil K. Sood;Robert Bhatty;Aparna A. Kamat;Charles N. Landen

  • The Emerging Field of Human Social Genomics

    George M. Slavich;Steven W. Cole

  • Inflammation and Behavioral Symptoms After Breast Cancer Treatment: Do Fatigue, Depression, and Sleep Disturbance Share a Common Underlying Mechanism?

    Julienne E. Bower;Patricia A. Ganz;Michael R. Irwin;Lorna Kwan

  • Promoter CpG Methylation Contributes to ES Cell Gene Regulation in Parallel with Oct4/Nanog, PcG Complex, and Histone H3 K4/K27 Trimethylation

    Shaun D. Fouse;Yin Shen;Matteo Pellegrini;Steve Cole

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael R. Irwin
Michael R. Irwin University of California, Los Angeles
Anil K. Sood
Anil K. Sood The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Susan K. Lutgendorf
Susan K. Lutgendorf University of Iowa
Jesusa M.G. Arevalo
Jesusa M.G. Arevalo University of California, Los Angeles
Julienne E. Bower
Julienne E. Bower University of California, Los Angeles
Patricia A. Ganz
Patricia A. Ganz University of California, Los Angeles
John P. Capitanio
John P. Capitanio University of California, Davis
Jerome A. Zack
Jerome A. Zack University of California, Los Angeles
Gregory E. Miller
Gregory E. Miller Northwestern University
Elizabeth C. Breen
Elizabeth C. Breen University of California, Los Angeles

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