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Overview

Susan S. Girdler is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine, focusing primarily on public health, behavioral neuroscience, clinical psychology, endocrinology, and social psychology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, largely centered around menstrual health and disorders, stress responses and cortisol regulation, menopause and its health impacts and treatments, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, medical research impacts, and diversity and career development in medicine.

Frequent coauthors in their research include David R. Rubinow, Tory A. Eisenlohr-Moul, Jennifer L. Gordon, Elizabeth Andersen, and Crystal Edler Schiller.

They have published extensively in several venues, with a strong presence in UNC Libraries and notable contributions to Psychoneuroendocrinology, Biological Psychiatry, Development and Psychopathology, and PLoS ONE.

Selected recent papers by Susan S. Girdler include:

  • How to study the menstrual cycle: Practical tools and recommendations, 2020, Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Exploring stress, cognitive, and affective mechanisms of the relationship between interpersonal trauma and opioid misuse, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • The Effects of Co-Occurring Interpersonal Trauma and Gender on Opioid Use and Misuse, 2020, Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Effects of acute estradiol and progesterone on perimenstrual exacerbation of suicidal ideation and related symptoms: a crossover randomized controlled trial, 2022, Translational Psychiatry
  • Baseline anxiety-sensitivity to estradiol fluctuations predicts anxiety symptom response to transdermal estradiol treatment in perimenopausal women - A randomized clinical trial, 2022, Psychoneuroendocrinology

Best Publications

  • Effects of partner support on resting oxytocin, cortisol, norepinephrine, and blood pressure before and after warm partner contact.

    Karen M. Grewen;Susan S. Girdler;Janet Amico;Kathleen C. Light

  • Allopregnanolone levels and reactivity to mental stress in premenstrual dysphoric disorder.

    Susan S Girdler;Patricia A Straneva;Kathleen C Light;Cort A Pedersen

  • How to study the menstrual cycle: Practical tools and recommendations

    Katja M. Schmalenberger;Hafsah A. Tauseef;Jordan C. Barone;Sarah A. Owens

  • Gender differences in blood pressure control during a variety of behavioral stressors.

    Susan S Girdler;J. R. Turner;A. Sherwood;K. C. Light

  • Warm partner contact is related to lower cardiovascular reactivity.

    Karen M. Grewen;Bobbi J. Anderson;Susan S. Girdler;Kathleen C. Light

  • Ischemic but not thermal pain sensitivity varies across the menstrual cycle.

    R B Fillingim;W Maixner;S S Girdler;K C Light

  • High Stress Responsivity Predicts Later Blood Pressure Only in Combination With Positive Family History and High Life Stress

    Kathleen C. Light;Susan S. Girdler;Andrew Sherwood;Edith E. Bragdon

  • Ovarian Hormone Fluctuation, Neurosteroids, and HPA Axis Dysregulation in Perimenopausal Depression: A Novel Heuristic Model

    Jennifer L. Gordon;Susan S. Girdler;Samantha E. Meltzer-Brody;Catherine S. Stika

  • Efficacy of transdermal estradiol and micronized progesterone in the prevention of depressive symptoms in the menopause transition: A randomized clinical trial

    Jennifer L. Gordon;David R. Rubinow;Tory A. Eisenlohr-Moul;Kai Xia

  • Cigarette smoking, stress-induced analgesia and pain perception in men and women.

    Susan S. Girdler;William Maixner;Herman A. Naftel;Paul W. Stewart

  • Does Self-Compassion Protect Adolescents from Stress?

    Karen Bluth;Patricia N. E. Roberson;Susan A. Gaylord;Keturah R. Faurot

  • Neurosteroids in the context of stress: implications for depressive disorders.

    Susan S. Girdler;Rebecca Klatzkin

  • Adrenergic dysregulation and pain with and without acute beta-blockade in women with fibromyalgia and temporomandibular disorder.

    Kathleen C. Light;Edith E. Bragdon;Karen M. Grewen;Kimberly A. Brownley

  • Pain inhibition, nicotine, and gender

    Larry D. Jamner;Susan S. Girdler;David Shapiro;Murray E. Jarvik

  • Estradiol variability, stressful life events, and the emergence of depressive symptomatology during the menopausal transition.

    Jennifer L. Gordon;David R. Rubinow;Tory A. Eisenlohr-Moul;Jane Leserman

  • Menstrual cycle phase does not influence gender differences in experimental pain sensitivity.

    Rebecca R. Klatzkin;Beth Mechlin;Susan S. Girdler

  • Sympathoadrenergic mechanisms in reduced hemodynamic stress responses after exercise.

    Kimberly A. Brownley;Alan L. Hinderliter;Sheila G. West;Susan S. Girdler

  • Job Status and High-Effort Coping Influence Work Blood Pressure in Women and Blacks

    K. C. Light;K. A. Brownley;J. R. Turner;A. L. Hinderliter

  • Menstrual cycle and premenstrual syndrome: modifiers of cardiovascular reactivity in women.

    Susan S Girdler;Cort Andrew Pedersen;Robert A. Stern;Kathleen C. Light

  • African Americans show alterations in endogenous pain regulatory mechanisms and reduced pain tolerance to experimental pain procedures.

    M. Beth Mechlin;William Maixner;Kathleen C. Light;Jessica M. Fisher

Frequent Co-Authors

Cynthia M. Bulik
Cynthia M. Bulik University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Judith S. Hochman
Judith S. Hochman New York University
Victoria J. Fraser
Victoria J. Fraser Washington University in St. Louis
Larry D. Jamner
Larry D. Jamner University of California, Irvine
Kathleen T. Brady
Kathleen T. Brady Medical University of South Carolina
Mitchell J. Prinstein
Mitchell J. Prinstein University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Qiaoping Yuan
Qiaoping Yuan National Institutes of Health
Suzanne C. Segerstrom
Suzanne C. Segerstrom University of Kentucky
Joel W. Hughes
Joel W. Hughes Kent State University
Gabriel S. Dichter
Gabriel S. Dichter University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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