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Aric A. Prather, PhD is a Professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He co-directs the Aging, Metabolism, and Emotions Center, and is the Interim Director of the Center for Health and Community. His research program focuses on the causes and consequences of insufficient sleep, with an emphasis on the bidirectional links between stress and sleep and how those factors independently and synergistically impact the immune system.
Publications
COVID-19 mRNA or viral vector vaccine type and subject sex influence the SARS-CoV-2 T-cell response.
Vaccine
Comparison of longitudinal PSQI and actigraphy-assessed sleep from pregnancy to postpartum.
PloS one
The relationship between mitochondrial health, telomerase activity and longitudinal telomere attrition, considering the role of chronic stress.
Scientific reports
Digital Lifestyle Interventions in CKD: No Better Time Than Now.
Kidney international reports
A randomized controlled clinical trial of a Wim Hof Method intervention in women with high depressive symptoms.
Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology
A platform to map the mind-mitochondria connection and the hallmarks of psychobiology: the MiSBIE study.
Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM
Better sleep, lower blood pressure, and less stress following sex: Findings from a large-scale ecological momentary assessment study.
Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association
Daily social resources as a buffer against stress eating and its consequences.
Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association
Examining the association of vaccine-related mindsets and post-vaccination antibody response, side effects, and affective outcomes.
Brain, behavior, & immunity - health
Psoriasis and Sleep Disturbance: A US Population-Based Study Using the NHANES Database.
Dermatology and therapy
COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects and Long-Term Neutralizing Antibody Response : A Prospective Cohort Study.
Annals of internal medicine
Maternal caregiving stress and metabolic health: Sexual activity as a potential buffer.
Psychoneuroendocrinology
Evaluation of racial and ethnic heterogeneity in the associations of sleep quality and sleep apnea risk with cognitive function and cognitive decline.
Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.)
Disturbed sleep is associated with worse patient-reported outcomes and chronic lung allograft dysfunction after lung transplantation.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Estimating the effect of timing of earned income tax credit refunds on perinatal outcomes: a quasi-experimental study of California births.
BMC public health
The more symptoms the better? Covid-19 vaccine side effects and long-term neutralizing antibody response.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Ecological Momentary Assessment of Midlife Adults' Daily Stress: Protocol for the Stress Reports in Variable Environments (STRIVE) App Study.
JMIR research protocols
Acute and chronic stress associations with blood pressure: An ecological momentary assessment study on an app-based platform.
Psychosomatic medicine
Examining Daily Associations Among Sleep, Stress, and Blood Pressure Across Adulthood.
Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine
Predictors of long-term neutralizing antibody titers following COVID-19 vaccination by three vaccine types: the BOOST study.
Scientific reports
Psychology Meets Biology in COVID-19: What We Know and Why It Matters for Public Health.
Policy insights from the behavioral and brain sciences
A meta-analysis of the associations between insufficient sleep duration and antibody response to vaccination.
Current biology : CB
Examining the Cross-sectional Association Between Neighborhood Conditions, Discrimination, and Telomere Length in a Predominantly African American Sample.
Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities
Adverse infant outcomes among women with sleep apnea or insomnia during pregnancy: A retrospective cohort study.
Sleep health
Sleep and Affect: Introduction to the Special Issue.
Affective science
Correction to: Asymmetrical Effects of Sleep and Emotions in Daily Life.
Affective science
Improving the language specificity of stress in psychological and population health science.
Psychosomatic medicine
Asymmetrical Effects of Sleep and Emotions in Daily Life.
Affective science
Links between the brain and body during sleep: implications for memory processing.
Trends in neurosciences
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sleep, and cardiovascular disease risk: A mechanism-focused narrative review.
Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association
What Is Insomnia?
JAMA
Psychological Resources and Biomarkers of Health in the Context of Chronic Parenting Stress.
International journal of behavioral medicine
The association of COVID-19 infection in pregnancy with preterm birth: A retrospective cohort study in California.
Lancet Regional Health. Americas
A reply to Shachak.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
"GrimAge," an epigenetic predictor of mortality, is accelerated in major depressive disorder.
Translational psychiatry
Sleep and Biological Aging: A Short Review.
Current opinion in endocrine and metabolic research
The long shadow of childhood trauma for depression in midlife: examining daily psychological stress processes as a persistent risk pathway.
Psychological medicine
Temporal Links Between Self-Reported Sleep and Antibody Responses to the Influenza Vaccine.
International journal of behavioral medicine
Early life adversity, pubertal timing, and epigenetic age acceleration in adulthood.
Developmental psychobiology
HPA axis regulation and epigenetic programming of immune-related genes in chronically stressed and non-stressed mid-life women.
Brain, behavior, and immunity
Acculturation, Cognitive Performance and Decline, and Incident Dementia/CIND: The Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging.
American journal of epidemiology
A call for social informatics.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Framework for a Community Health Observing System for the Gulf of Mexico Region: Preparing for Future Disasters.
Frontiers in public health
Measures of Psychosocial Stress and Stressful Exposures.
Arthritis care & research
Anticipated and Experienced Ethnic/Racial Discrimination and Sleep: A Longitudinal Study.
Personality & social psychology bulletin
Is cellular energy monitoring more responsive to hypoxia than pulse oximetry?
Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung
Efficacy of Digital Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the Treatment of Insomnia Symptoms Among Pregnant Women: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA psychiatry
Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts: associations with sleep duration, insomnia, and inflammation.
Psychological medicine
Better together: sleep, circadian genes, and immunity.
Brain, behavior, and immunity
Telomere length analysis from minimally-invasively collected samples: Methods development and meta-analysis of the validity of different sampling techniques: American Journal of Human Biology.
American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council
Exposures to Structural Racism and Racial Discrimination among Pregnant and Early Postpartum Black Women living in Oakland, California.
Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress
Part I: A Quantitative Study of Social Risk Screening Acceptability in Patients and Caregivers.
American journal of preventive medicine
Pregnant Patient Perceptions of Provider Detection and Treatment of Insomnia.
Behavioral sleep medicine
Bidirectional Links Between Social Rejection and Sleep.
Psychosomatic medicine
The assessment and management of insomnia: an update.
World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA)
Chronic psychosocial and financial burden accelerates 5-year telomere shortening: findings from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study.
Molecular psychiatry
Socioeconomic Status, Preeclampsia Risk and Gestational Length in Black and White Women.
Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities
Plasma klotho and frailty in older adults: Findings from the InCHIANTI Study.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences
Sleep Pharmacogenetics: The Promise of Precision Medicine.
Sleep medicine clinics
Association of Social and Behavioral Risk Factors With Earlier Onset of Adult Hypertension and Diabetes.
JAMA network open
Assessment of Sleep Disturbances and Exhaustion in Mothers of Children With Atopic Dermatitis.
JAMA dermatology
Association of Atopic Dermatitis With Sleep Quality in Children.
JAMA pediatrics
Cumulative lifetime stress exposure and leukocyte telomere length attrition: The unique role of stressor duration and exposure timing.
Psychoneuroendocrinology
Links Between Stress, Sleep, and Inflammation: Are there Sex Differences?
Current psychiatry reports
The pain of sleep loss: A brain characterization in humans.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Direct and indirect associations of cognitive reappraisal and suppression with disease biomarkers.
Psychology & health
Altered overnight levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines in men and women with posttraumatic stress disorder.
Psychoneuroendocrinology
Weight loss, weight-loss maintenance, and cellular aging in the Supporting Health through Nutrition and Exercise (SHINE) Study.
Psychosomatic medicine
Ten Surprising Facts About Stressful Life Events and Disease Risk.
Annual review of psychology
In vitro proinflammatory gene expression predicts in vivo telomere shortening: A preliminary study.
Psychoneuroendocrinology
Associations between chronic caregiving stress and T cell markers implicated in immunosenescence.
Brain, behavior, and immunity
Mindfulness on-the-go: Effects of a mindfulness meditation app on work stress and well-being.
Journal of occupational health psychology
Cord blood klotho levels are inversely associated with leptin in healthy Latino neonates at risk for obesity.
Journal of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism : JPEM
More than a feeling: A unified view of stress measurement for population science.
Frontiers in neuroendocrinology
Stress, Telomeres, and Psychopathology: Toward a Deeper Understanding of a Triad of Early Aging.
Annual review of clinical psychology
A Mitochondrial Health Index Sensitive to Mood and Caregiving Stress.
Biological psychiatry
The social side of sleep: Elucidating the links between sleep and social processes.
Current directions in psychological science
Sleep Disorder Diagnosis During Pregnancy and Risk of Preterm Birth.
Obstetrics and gynecology
Effects of daily maladaptive coping on nightly sleep in mothers.
Psychology & health
Sexual intimacy in couples is associated with longer telomere length.
Psychoneuroendocrinology
National Academy of Medicine Social and Behavioral Measures: Associations With Self-Reported Health.
American journal of preventive medicine
Sleep Habits and Susceptibility to Upper Respiratory Illness: the Moderating Role of Subjective Socioeconomic Status.
Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine
Threat-related amygdala activity is associated with peripheral CRP concentrations in men but not women.
Psychoneuroendocrinology
Poor Sleep Quality, Psychological Distress, and the Buffering Effect of Mindfulness Training During Pregnancy.
Behavioral sleep medicine
Should Internet Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia Be the Primary Treatment Option for Insomnia?: Toward Getting More SHUTi.
JAMA psychiatry
Impact of a Mindfulness-Based Weight-Loss Intervention on Sleep Quality Among Adults with Obesity: Data from the SHINE Randomized Controlled Trial.
Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)
Lifespan adversity and later adulthood telomere length in the nationally representative US Health and Retirement Study.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Institute of Medicine Measures of Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health: A Feasibility Study.
American journal of preventive medicine
A Functional Interleukin-18 Haplotype Predicts Depression and Anxiety through Increased Threat-Related Amygdala Reactivity in Women but Not Men.
Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
Association of Insufficient Sleep With Respiratory Infection Among Adults in the United States.
JAMA internal medicine
PER1 rs3027172 Genotype Interacts with Early Life Stress to Predict Problematic Alcohol Use, but Not Reward-Related Ventral Striatum Activity.
Frontiers in psychology
Factors related to telomere length.
Brain, behavior, and immunity
Exercise mitigates cumulative associations between stress and BMI in girls age 10 to 19.
Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association
Risk for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Person, Place, and Precision Prevention.
JAMA internal medicine
Longevity factor klotho and chronic psychological stress.
Translational psychiatry
Tired telomeres: Poor global sleep quality, perceived stress, and telomere length in immune cell subsets in obese men and women.
Brain, behavior, and immunity
Anger is associated with increased IL-6 stress reactivity in women, but only among those low in social support.
International journal of behavioral medicine
Sleep duration, insomnia, and markers of systemic inflammation: results from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA).
Journal of psychiatric research
Poor sleep quality potentiates stress-induced cytokine reactivity in postmenopausal women with high visceral abdominal adiposity.
Brain, behavior, and immunity
Gender differences in the prospective associations of self-reported sleep quality with biomarkers of systemic inflammation and coagulation: findings from the Heart and Soul Study.
Journal of psychiatric research
Impact of sleep quality on amygdala reactivity, negative affect, and perceived stress.
Psychosomatic medicine
Maintenance of a positive outlook during acute stress protects against pro-inflammatory reactivity and future depressive symptoms.
Brain, behavior, and immunity
Shorter leukocyte telomere length in midlife women with poor sleep quality.
Journal of aging research
Ethnic differences in the effects of the DASH diet on nocturnal blood pressure dipping in individuals with high blood pressure.
American journal of hypertension
Negative affective responses to a speech task predict changes in interleukin (IL)-6.
Brain, behavior, and immunity
Changes in sleep quality, but not hormones predict time to postpartum depression recurrence.
Journal of affective disorders
Cytokine-induced depression during IFN-alpha treatment: the role of IL-6 and sleep quality.
Brain, behavior, and immunity
Normative variation in self-reported sleep quality and sleep debt is associated with stimulated pro-inflammatory cytokine production.
Biological psychology
Gender differences in stimulated cytokine production following acute psychological stress.
Brain, behavior, and immunity
Antagonistic characteristics are positively associated with inflammatory markers independently of trait negative emotionality.
Brain, behavior, and immunity
Stimulated production of proinflammatory cytokines covaries inversely with heart rate variability.
Psychosomatic medicine
Positive affective style covaries with stimulated IL-6 and IL-10 production in a middle-aged community sample.
Brain, behavior, and immunity