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Thomas W. Kamarck is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with significant contributions in several subfields such as Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Health, and General Health Professions.

Their work focuses on a variety of interconnected topics. These include:

  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Cardiac Health and Mental Health
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Thomas W. Kamarck has published multiple papers in notable academic journals. Some recent papers include:

  • "The double burden of racial discrimination in daily-life moments: Increases in negative emotions and depletion of psychosocial resources among emerging adult African Americans." (2020, Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology)
  • "Randomized feasibility trial of a digital intervention for hypertension self-management" (2021, Journal of Human Hypertension)
  • "Daily stress reactivity: The unique roles of personality and social support" (2021, Journal of Personality)
  • "Social Integration and Diurnal Cortisol Decline: The Role of Psychosocial and Behavioral Pathways" (2020, Psychosomatic Medicine)
  • "Longitudinal associations of social support, everyday social interactions, and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic" (2022, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships)

Several journals serve as frequent publication venues for Thomas W. Kamarck, including:

  • Psychosomatic Medicine
  • Health Psychology
  • Annals of Behavioral Medicine
  • International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

They have collaborated extensively with a number of co-authors, particularly with:

  • Matthew F. Muldoon
  • Stephen B. Manuck
  • Javier Rasero
  • Aidan G.C. Wright
  • Mark Thomas

Best Publications

  • A global measure of perceived stress.

    Sheldon Cohen;Thomas W. Kamarck;Robin J. Mermelstein

  • Measuring the Functional Components of Social Support

    Sheldon Cohen;Robin J. Mermelstein;Thomas W. Kamarck;Harry M. Hoberman

  • Relationships Between the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), and Clinical/Polysomnographic Measures in a Community Sample

    Daniel J. Buysse;Martica L. Hall;Patrick J. Strollo;Thomas W. Kamarck

  • Cardiovascular reactivity and development of preclinical and clinical disease states

    Frank A. Treiber;Thomas Kamarck;Neil Schneiderman;David Sheffield

  • Social support reduces cardiovascular reactivity to psychological challenge: a laboratory model.

    T W Kamarck;S B Manuck;J R Jennings

  • Social support and smoking cessation and maintenance.

    Robin J. Mermelstein;Sheldon Cohen;Edward Lichtenstein;John S. Baer

  • Alternate Cardiovascular Baseline Assessment Techniques: Vanilla or Resting Baseline

    J R Jennings;T Kamarck;C Stewart;M Eddy

  • Social Jetlag, Chronotype, and Cardiometabolic Risk

    Patricia M. Wong;Brant P. Hasler;Thomas W. Kamarck;Matthew F. Muldoon

  • A prospective evaluation of the directionality of the depression–inflammation relationship.

    Jesse C. Stewart;Kevin L. Rand;Matthew F. Muldoon;Thomas W. Kamarck

  • Influence of race and socioeconomic status on sleep: Pittsburgh SleepSCORE project.

    Elizabeth J. Mezick;Karen A. Matthews;Martica Hall;Patrick J. Strollo

  • Cardiovascular reactivity to psychological challenge: conceptual and measurement considerations.

    Thomas W. Kamarck;William R. Lovallo

  • cStress: towards a gold standard for continuous stress assessment in the mobile environment

    Karen Hovsepian;Mustafa al'Absi;Emre Ertin;Thomas Kamarck

  • Exaggerated Blood Pressure Responses During Mental Stress Are Associated With Enhanced Carotid Atherosclerosis in Middle-Aged Finnish Men Findings From the Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease Study

    T W Kamarck;S A Everson;G A Kaplan;S B Manuck

  • Biobehavioral factors in sudden cardiac death.

    T Kamarck;J R Jennings

  • Continuous inference of psychological stress from sensory measurements collected in the natural environment

    Kurt Plarre;Andrew Raij;Syed Monowar Hossain;Amin Ahsan Ali

  • Intra-individual variability in sleep duration and fragmentation: Associations with stress

    Elizabeth J. Mezick;Karen A. Matthews;Martica Hall;Thomas W. Kamarck

  • Validation of the Detroit Area Study Discrimination Scale in a community sample of older African American adults: the Pittsburgh healthy heart project.

    Teletia R. Taylor;Thomas W. Kamarck;Saul Shiffman

  • Reliable measures of behaviorally-evoked cardiovascular reactivity from a PC-based test battery: results from student and community samples.

    T W Kamarck;J R Jennings;T T Debski;E Glickman-Weiss

  • Effects of task strain, social conflict, and emotional activation on ambulatory cardiovascular activity: daily life consequences of recurring stress in a multiethnic adult sample.

    Thomas W. Kamarck;Saul M. Shiffman;Leslie Smithline;Jeffrey L. Goodie

  • Similarities and differences in estimates of sleep duration by polysomnography, actigraphy, diary, and self-reported habitual sleep in a community sample.

    Karen A. Matthews;Sanjay R. Patel;Elizabeth J. Pantesco;Daniel J. Buysse

  • Exaggerated Blood Pressure Responses During Mental Stress Are Prospectively Related to Enhanced Carotid Atherosclerosis in Middle-Aged Finnish Men

    J. Richard Jennings;Thomas W. Kamarck;Susan A. Everson-Rose;George A. Kaplan

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen B. Manuck
Stephen B. Manuck University of Pittsburgh
Karen A. Matthews
Karen A. Matthews University of Pittsburgh
Saul Shiffman
Saul Shiffman University of Pittsburgh
J. Richard Jennings
J. Richard Jennings University of Pittsburgh
Sheldon Cohen
Sheldon Cohen Carnegie Mellon University
Robin J. Mermelstein
Robin J. Mermelstein University of Illinois at Chicago
Aidan G. C. Wright
Aidan G. C. Wright University of Pittsburgh
Edward Lichtenstein
Edward Lichtenstein Oregon Research Institute
Chad J. Gwaltney
Chad J. Gwaltney Brown University
Anna L. Marsland
Anna L. Marsland University of Pittsburgh

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