2025
Sampson, L., Scoglio, A. A. J., Nishimi, K., Choi, K. W., Kim, A. H., Zhu, Y., Sun, Q., Kang, J. H., Rimm, E. B., Koenen, K. C., & Kubzansky, L. D. (2025). Psychological resilience to trauma and longitudinal sleep outcomes among current and former nurses. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 192, 112090. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2025.112090 (View in: PDF)
Matvey, M., Kelley, D. P., Bradley, E. R., Chiong, W., O’Donovan, A., & Woolley, J. (2025). Modifying Informed Consent to Help Address Functional Unmasking in Psychedelic Clinical Trials. JAMA Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.4312 (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Haft, S. L., Downey, A. E., Raymond-Flesch, M., Fernandes-Osterhold, G., Bradley, E. R., O'Donovan, A., & Woolley, J. (2025). A systematic review of participant diversity in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy trials. Psychiatry research, 345, 116359. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
2024
Rubin, M., Niles, A., Evans, T., Tripp, P., Neylan, T. C., Woolley, J., & O’Donovan, A. (2024). Measuring and Modifying Threat-Related Attention Bias in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Attention Bias Modification Study. Depression and Anxiety, 2024(1), 3683656. (View in: PDF)
Nishimi, K., Chen, R., Schmajuk, G., Neylan, T. C., & O’Donovan, A. (2024). Lifetime Trauma Exposure and Arthritis in Older Adults. Psychosomatic Medicine, 86(8), 670. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Nishimi, K., Neylan, T. C., Bertenthal, D., Seal, K. H., & O’Donovan, A. (2024). Association of psychiatric disorders with clinical diagnosis of long COVID in US veterans. Psychological Medicine, 54(9), 2024–2032. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Aday, J. S., Horton, D., Fernandes-Osterhold, G., O’Donovan, A., Bradley, E. R., Rosen, R. C., & Woolley, J. D. (2024). Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy: Where is the psychotherapy research? Psychopharmacology, 241(8), 1517–1526. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Sakai, K., Bradley, E. R., Zamaria, J. A., Agin-Liebes, G., Kelley, D. P., Fish, A., Martini, V., Ferris, M. C., Morton, E., Michalak, E. E., O’Donovan, A., & Woolley, J. D. (2024). Content analysis of Reddit posts about coadministration of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and psilocybin mushrooms. Psychopharmacology, 241(8), 1617–1630. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Downey, A. E., Bradley, E. R., Lerche, A. S., O’Donovan, A., Krystal, A. D., & Woolley, J. (2024). A Plea for Nuance: Should People with a Family History of Bipolar Disorder Be Excluded from Clinical Trials of Psilocybin Therapy? Psychedelic Medicine, 2(2), 61–73. (View in: PDF)
Meier, M., Kantelhardt, S., Gurri, L., Stadler, C., Schmid, M., Clemens, V., O’Donovan, A., Boonmann, C., Bürgin, D., & Unternaehrer, E. (2024). Childhood trauma is linked to epigenetic age deceleration in young adults with previous youth residential care placements. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 15(1), 2379144. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Haft, S.L., Bradley, E., O’Donovan, A., & Woolley, J.D. (2024). Update on novel psychedelic treatments for PTSD. Psychiatry Research Quarterly, 35(4), 1-7. (View in: PDF)
Dunn, E. C., Ernst, S. C., Nishimi, K., & Choi, K. R. (2024). The Prevalence, Predictors, and Health Consequences of Disagreement in Reports of Child Maltreatment Exposure. Child psychiatry and human development, 10.1007/s10578-024-01721-2. Advance online publication. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Scoglio, A. A. J., Nishimi, K., Choi, K. W., Koenen, K. C., Sampson, L. A., Jha, S. C., & Kubzansky, L. D. (2024). Prior resilience to trauma & coping during the COVID-19 pandemic. PloS one, 19(5), e0297169. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Scoglio, A. A. J., Choi, K. W., Nishimi, K., Sampson, L., Koenen, K. C., Roberts, A. L., Jha, S., & Kubzansky, L. D. (2024). Prepandemic Resilience to Trauma and COVID-19 Infection in Older Women. Psychosomatic medicine, 86(7), 625–632. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Trudel-Fitzgerald, C., Boucher, G., Morin, C., Mondragon, P., Guimond, A. J., Nishimi, K., Choi, K. W., & Denckla, C. (2024). Coping and emotion regulation: A conceptual and measurement scoping review. Canadian psychology = Psychologie canadienne, 65(3), 149–162. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
2023
Nishimi, K., Bürgin, D., & O’Donovan, A. (2023). Psychological resilience to lifetime trauma and risk for cardiometabolic disease and mortality in older adults: A longitudinal cohort study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 175, 111539. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
- Selected as Editor’s Choice article, highlighting one article quarterly by the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine (EAPM).
Nishimi, K., Tan, J., Scoglio, A., Choi, K. W., Kelley, D. P., Neylan, T. C., & O’Donovan, A. (2023). Psychological Resilience to Trauma and Risk of COVID-19 Infection and Somatic Symptoms Across 2 Years. Psychosomatic Medicine, 85(6), 488. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Choi, K. W.*, Nishimi, K.*, Jha, S. C., Sampson, L., Hahn, J., Kang, J. H., Koenen, K. C., & Kubzansky, L. D. (2023). Pre-pandemic resilience to trauma and mental health outcomes during COVID-19. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 58(3), 453–465. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
*These two authors share senior authorship on this manuscript.
2022
Nishimi, K., Neylan, T. C., Bertenthal, D., Dolsen, E. A., Seal, K. H., & O'Donovan, A. (2022). Posttraumatic stress disorder and risk for hospitalization and death following COVID-19 infection. Translational Psychiatry, 12(1), 482. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Dolsen, E. A., Nishimi, K., LeWinn, K. Z., Byers, A. L., Tripp, P., Woodward, E., Khan, A. J., Marx, B. P., Borsari, B., Jiha, A., Neylan, T. C., & O'Donovan, A. (2022). Identifying correlates of suicide ideation during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional analysis of 148 sociodemographic and pandemic-specific factors. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 156, 186-193. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Bürgin, D., Clemens, V., Varghese, N., Eckert, A., Boonmann, C., O’Donovan, A.,* & Schmid, M.* (2022). Adverse and traumatic exposures, posttraumatic stress disorder, telomere length, and hair cortisol – Exploring associations in a high-risk sample of young adult residential care leavers. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity – Health, 26, 100524. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
*These two authors share senior authorship on this manuscript.
Cobert, J. & O’Donovan, A. (2022). Dispositional optimism and positive health outcomes: Moving from epidemiology to behavioral interventions. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 70(10), 2754–2757. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Khan, A. J., Bradley, E., O’Donovan, A., & Woolley, J. (2022). Psilocybin for trauma-related disorders. In M. A. Geyer, C. A. Marsden, B. A. Ellenbroek, T. R. E. Barnes, S. L. Andersen, M. P. Paulus (Eds.), Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, (Vol. 56, pp. 319-332). Springer. (View in: PubMed)
Bürgin, D., Clemens, V., Varghese, N., Eckert, A., Boonmann, C., O’Donovan, A.,* & Schmid, M.* (2022). Higher hair cortisol concentrations associated with shorter leukocyte telomere length in high-risk young adults. Nature Scientific Reports, 12(1), 11730. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
*These two authors share senior authorship on this manuscript.
Nishimi, K., Borsari, B., Tripp, P., Jiha, A., Dolsen, E. A., Woolley, J. D., Neylan, T. C., & O'Donovan, A. (2022). Prior trauma exposure, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 151, 399-404. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Nishimi, K., Neylan, T. C., Bertenthal, D., Seal, K. H., & O'Donovan, A. (2022). Association of psychiatric disorders with risk for breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infection among vaccinated adults. JAMA Network Open, 5(4), e227287. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Straus, L. D., Dolsen, E. A., Nishimi, K., Neylan, T. C., & O'Donovan, A. (2022). Worse sleep, worsening PTSD: Poor sleep quality associated with increases in PTSD symptoms amongst those experiencing high threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Sleep Research, 31(5), e13568. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Nishimi, K., Borsari, B., Marx, B. P., Tripp, P., Woodward, E., Rosen, R. C., Cohen, B. E., Maven, D., Jiha, A., Woolley, J. D., Neylan, T. C., & O'Donovan, A. (2022). Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms associated with protective and risky behaviors for COVID-19. Health Psychology, 41(2), 104-114. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Nishimi, K., Borsari, B., Marx, B. P., Rosen, R. C., Cohen, B. E., Woodward, E., Maven, D., Tripp, P., Jiha, A., Woolley, J. D., Neylan, T. C., & O'Donovan, A. (2022). Clusters of COVID-19 protective and risky behaviors and their associations with pandemic, socio-demographic, and mental health factors in the United States. Preventive Medicine Reports, 25, 101671. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Stauffer, C. S., Morrison, T. E., Meinzer, N. K., Leung, D., Buffington, J., Sheh, E. G., Neylan, T. C., O'Donovan, A., & Woolley, J. D. (2022). Effects of oxytocin administration on fear-potentiated acoustic startle in co-occurring PTSD and alcohol use disorder: A randomized clinical trial. Psychiatry Research, 308, 114340. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Chen, R., Williams, D. R., Nishimi, K., Slopen, N., Kubzansky, L. D., & Weuve, J. (2022). A life course approach to understanding stress exposures and cognitive function among middle-aged and older adults. Social science & medicine (1982), 314, 115448. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Lawn, R. B., Murchland, A. R., Kim, Y., Chibnik, L. B., Tworoger, S. S., Rimm, E. B., Sumner, J. A., Roberts, A. L., Nishimi, K. M., Ratanatharathorn, A. D., Jha, S. C., Koenen, K. C., & Kubzansky, L. D. (2022). Trauma, psychological distress and markers of systemic inflammation among US women: A longitudinal study. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 145, 105915. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Ratanatharathorn, A., Roberts, A. L., Chibnik, L. B., Choi, K. W., De Vivo, I., Kim, Y., Nishimi, K., Rimm, E. B., Sumner, J. A., Kubzansky, L. D., & Koenen, K. C. (2022). Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Depression, and Accelerated Aging: Leukocyte Telomere Length in the Nurses' Health Study II. Biological psychiatry global open science, 3(3), 510–518. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Nishimi, K., Thurston, R. C., Chibnik, L. B., Roberts, A. L., Sumner, J. A., Lawn, R. B., Tworoger, S. S., Kim, Y., Koenen, K. C., & Kubzansky, L. D. (2022). Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and timing of menopause and gynecological surgery in the Nurses' Health Study II. Journal of psychosomatic research, 159, 110947. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Nishimi, K., Koenen, K. C., Coull, B. A., Segerstrom, S. C., Austin, S. B., & Kubzansky, L. D. (2022). Psychological resilience and diurnal salivary cortisol in young adulthood. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 140, 105736. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Nishimi, K., Glickman, E., Smith, K., Ben-Joseph, E., Carson, S., Vranceanu, A. M., & Dunn, E. C. (2022). Master-planned communities in the United States as novel contexts for individual and population-level research. Preventive medicine, 154, 106864. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Nishimi, K., Koenen, K. C., Coull, B. A., & Kubzansky, L. D. (2022). Association of Psychological Resilience With Healthy Lifestyle and Body Weight in Young Adulthood. The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 70(2), 258–266. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Lawn, R. B., Nishimi, K. M., Sumner, J. A., Chibnik, L. B., Roberts, A. L., Kubzansky, L. D., Rich-Edwards, J. W., Koenen, K. C., & Thurston, R. C. (2022). Sexual Violence and Risk of Hypertension in Women in the Nurses' Health Study II: A 7-Year Prospective Analysis. Journal of the American Heart Association, 11(5), e023015. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Sampson, L., Jha, S. C., Roberts, A. L., Lawn, R. B., Nishimi, K. M., Ratanatharathorn, A., Sumner, J. A., Kang, J. H., Kubzansky, L. D., Rimm, E. B., & Koenen, K. C. (2022). Trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Treatment Among Middle-Aged and Older Women in the Nurses' Health Study II. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, 30(5), 588–602. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
2021
Khan, A. J., Nishimi, K., Tripp, P., Maven, D., Jiha, A., Woodward, E., Inslicht, S., Richards, A., Neylan, T. C., Maguen, S.,* & O’Donovan, A.* (2021). COVID-related moral injury: Associations with perceived threat of COVID-19 and related risky and protective behaviors. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 142, 80-88. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
*These two authors share senior authorship on this manuscript.
Bürgin, D., Boonmann, C., Schmid, M., Nishimi, K., Tripp, P., & O'Donovan, A. (2021). Compounding Stress – Childhood adversity as a risk factor for adulthood trauma in the Health and Retirement Study. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 34(1), 124-136. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Young, D., Chao, L., Zhang, H., Metzler, T., Richards, A., O'Donovan, A., Inslicht, S. & Neylan, T. (2021). Ventromedial and insular cortical volume moderates the relationship between BDNF Val66Met and threat sensitivity. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 142, 337-344. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Nishimi, K., Koenen, K. C., Coull, B. A., Chen, R., & Kubzansky, L. D. (2021). Psychological resilience predicting cardiometabolic conditions in adulthood in the Midlife in the United States Study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(32), e2102619118. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Nishimi, K., Adler, G. K., Roberts, A. L., Sumner, J. A., Jung, S. J., Chen, Q., Tworoger, S., Koenen, K. C., & Kubzansky, L. D. (2021). Associations of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder with aldosterone in women. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 132, 105341. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Nishimi, K., Choi, K. W., Cerutti, J., Powers, A., Bradley, B., & Dunn, E. C. (2021). Measures of adult psychological resilience following early-life adversity: how congruent are different measures?. Psychological medicine, 51(15), 2637–2646. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Jung, S. J., Lee, G. B., Nishimi, K., Chibnik, L., Koenen, K. C., & Kim, H. C. (2021). Association between psychological resilience and cognitive function in older adults: effect modification by inflammatory status. GeroScience, 43(6), 2749–2760. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Crawford, K. M., Zhu, Y., Davis, K. A., Ernst, S., Jacobsson, K., Nishimi, K., Smith, A. D. A. C., & Dunn, E. C. (2021). The mental health effects of pet death during childhood: is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all?. European child & adolescent psychiatry, 30(10), 1547–1558. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Kim, Y., Roberts, A. L., Rimm, E. B., Chibnik, L. B., Tworoger, S. S., Nishimi, K. M., Sumner, J. A., Koenen, K. C., & Kubzansky, L. D. (2021). Posttraumatic stress disorder and changes in diet quality over 20 years among US women. Psychological medicine, 51(2), 310–319. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Lawn, R. B., Nishimi, K. M., Kim, Y., Jung, S. J., Roberts, A. L., Sumner, J. A., Thurston, R. C., Chibnik, L. B., Rimm, E. B., Ratanatharathorn, A. D., Jha, S. C., Koenen, K. C., Tworoger, S. S., & Kubzansky, L. D. (2021). Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Likelihood of Hormone Therapy Use among Women in the Nurses' Health Study II: A 26-Year Prospective Analysis. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention: a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology, 30(3), 492–498. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
2020
Young, D., Neylan, T., Zhang, H., O'Donovan, A., & Inslicht, S. (2020). Impulsivity as a multifactorial construct and its relationship to PTSD severity and threat sensitivity. Psychiatry Research, 293, 113468. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
O'Donovan, A., Bahorik, A., Sidney, S., Launer, L. J., & Yaffe, K. (2021). Relationships of inflammation trajectories with white matter volume and integrity in midlife. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 91, 81–88. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Niles, A. N., Woolley, J. D., Tripp, P., Pesquita, A., Vinogradov, S., Neylan, T. C., & O'Donovan, A. (2020). Randomized controlled trial testing mobile-based attention bias modification for posttraumatic stress using personalized word stimuli. Clinical Psychological Science, 8(4), 756–772. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Bürgin, D., Boonmann, C., Schmid, M., Tripp, P., & O'Donovan, A. (2020). Fact or Artifact? Childhood adversity and adulthood trauma in the U.S. population-based Health and Retirement Study. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 11(1), 1721146. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Ahmadian, A. J., Lin, J. E., Neylan, T. C., Woolley, J. D., O’Donovan, A.,* & Cohen, B. E.* (2020). Social integration and inflammation in individuals with and without posttraumatic stress disorder. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 89, 168–174. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
*These two authors shared senior authorship on this project.
Khan, A. J., O’Donovan, A., Neylan, T. C., Gross, J. J., & Cohen, B. E. (2020). Suppression, but not reappraisal, is associated with inflammation in trauma-exposed veterans. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 122, 104871. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Bürgin, D., Kind, N., Schroder, Clemens, V., Fegert, J.M., Eckert, A., Buchheim, A., O’Donovan, A., Boonmann, C., Schmid, M. (2020). The stress of caring – resilience and HPA-axis activity in hair samples of youth residential caregivers. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 556486. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Morrison, T., De Coster, L., Stauffer, C., Wen, J., Ahmadi, E., Delucchi, K., O'Donovan, A., Woolley, J.D. (2020). Automatic Imitation in Comorbid PTSD & Alcohol Use Disorder and Controls: an RCT of Intranasal Oxytocin. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 120, 104871. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Neylan, T., Richards, A., Metzler, T., Ruoff, L., Varbel, J., O'Donovan, A., Sivasubramanian, M., Motraghi, T., Hlavin, J., Batki, S., Inslicht, S., Samuelson, K., Morairty, S., & Kilduff, T. (2020). Acute cognitive effects of the hypocretin receptor antagonist almorexant relative to zolpidem and placebo: a randomized clinical trial. Sleep, 43(10), zsaa080. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Kanady, J.C., Ruoff, L., Straus, L.D., Varbel, J., Metzler, T., Richards, A., Inslicht, S.S., O’Donovan, A., Hlavin, J., & Neylan, T.C. (2020). Validation of sleep measurement in a multisensor consumer-grade wearable device in healthy young adults. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 16(6), 917–924. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Scheier, M.F., Swanson, J.D., Barlow, M.A., Greenhouse, J.B., Wrosch, C., & Tindle, H.A. [for the Optimism/Pessimism Meta-Analytic Consortium including O’Donovan, A.] (2020). Optimism versus pessimism as predictors of physical health: A comprehensive reanalysis of dispositional optimism research. American Psychologist, 76(3), 529-548. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Choi, K. W., Stein, M. B., Nishimi, K. M., Ge, T., Coleman, J. R. I., Chen, C. Y., Ratanatharathorn, A., Zheutlin, A. B., Dunn, E. C., 23andMe Research Team, Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Breen, G., Koenen, K. C., & Smoller, J. W. (2020). An Exposure-Wide and Mendelian Randomization Approach to Identifying Modifiable Factors for the Prevention of Depression. The American journal of psychiatry, 177(10), 944–954. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Nishimi, K., Choi, K. W., Davis, K. A., Powers, A., Bradley, B., & Dunn, E. C. (2020). Features of Childhood Maltreatment and Resilience Capacity in Adulthood: Results from a Large Community-Based Sample. Journal of traumatic stress, 33(5), 665–676. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Nishimi, K., & Street, N. W. (2020). Nursing education partnerships between western high-income universities and non-governmental agencies and low-income local agencies: A scoping review of the literature. Journal of professional nursing: official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 36(3), 147–157. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Dunn, E. C., Nishimi, K., Neumann, A., Renaud, A., Cecil, C. A. M., Susser, E. S., & Tiemeier, H. (2020). Time-Dependent Effects of Exposure to Physical and Sexual Violence on Psychopathology Symptoms in Late Childhood: In Search of Sensitive Periods in Development. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 59(2), 283–295.e4. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Sumner, J. A., Nishimi, K. M., Koenen, K. C., Roberts, A. L., & Kubzansky, L. D. (2020). Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Inflammation: Untangling Issues of Bidirectionality. Biological psychiatry, 87(10), 885–897. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
2019
Neylan, T.C. & O’Donovan, A. (2019). Inflammation and PTSD. PTSD Research Quarterly, 29(4), 2-10. (View in: PDF)
Stauffer, C., Morrison, T., Leung, D., Wen, J., Batki, S., Neylan, T., O'Donovan, A., & Woolley, J. (2019). Effects of Oxytocin Administration on Cue-Induced Craving in Co-occurring Alcohol Use Disorder and PTSD: A Within-Participant Randomized Clinical Trial. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 43, 2627-2636. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Bradley, E.R., Seitz, A., Niles, A.N., Rankin, K.P., Mathalon, D.H., O'Donovan, A., & Woolley, J.D. (2019). Oxytocin increases eye gaze in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 212, 177-185. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Bürgin, D., O'Donovan, A., d'Huart, D., di Gallo, A., Eckert, A., Fegert, J., Schmeck, K., Schmid, M., Boonmann, C. (2019). Adverse Childhood Experiences and Telomere Length a Look Into the Heterogeneity of Findings-A Narrative Review. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13, 490. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Cowden Hindash, A.H., Lujan, C., Howard, M., O’Donovan, A., Richards, A., Neylan, T.C., & Inslicht, S. (2019). Gender Differences in Threat Biases: Trauma Type Matters in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 32(5), 701-711. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Young, D. A., Neylan, T. C., Chao, L. L., O'Donovan, A., Metzler, T. J., & Inslicht, S. S. (2019). Child abuse interacts with hippocampal and corpus callosum volume on psychophysiological response to startling auditory stimuli in a sample of veterans. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 111, 16-23. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Küffer, A,* Straus, L.D.*, Prather, A., Inslicht, S., Richards, A., Shigenaga, J., Madden, E., Metzler, T., Neylan, T.C.*, & O’Donovan, A.* (2019). Altered overnight levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines in men and women with posttraumatic stress disorder. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 102, 114-120. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Niles, A.N. & O’Donovan, A. (2019). Comparing anxiety and depression to obesity and smoking as predictors of major medical illnesses and somatic symptoms. Health Psychology, 38(2), 172-181. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Jung, S. J., Winning, A., Roberts, A. L., Nishimi, K., Chen, Q., Gilsanz, P., Sumner, J. A., Fernandez, C. A., Rimm, E. B., Kubzansky, L. D., & Koenen, K. C. (2019). Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and television viewing patterns in the Nurses' Health Study II: A longitudinal analysis. PloS one, 14(3), e0213441. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Jung, S. J., Kang, J. H., Roberts, A. L., Nishimi, K., Chen, Q., Sumner, J. A., Kubzansky, L., & Koenen, K. C. (2019). Posttraumatic stress disorder and incidence of thyroid dysfunction in women. Psychological medicine, 49(15), 2551–2560. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
2018
Niles, A.N., Smirnova, M., Lin, J., & O'Donovan, A. (2018). Gender differences in longitudinal relationships between depression and anxiety symptoms and inflammation in the health and retirement study. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 95, 149-157. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Niles, A.N. & O'Donovan, A. (2018). Personalizing Affective Stimuli Using a Recommender Algorithm: An Example with Threatening Words for Trauma Exposed Populations. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 42(6), 747–757. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
- Clinical Tool Developed: http://threat-word-predictor.herokuapp.com/
Niles, A.N., Luxenberg, A., Neylan, T.C., Inslicht, S.S., Metzler, T.J., Hlavin, J., Deng, J., & O’Donovan, A. (2018) Effects of Threat Context, Trauma History, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Status on Physiological Startle Reactivity in Gulf War Veterans. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 31(4), 579-590. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Young, D.A., Chao, L., Neylan, T.C., O'Donovan, A., Metzler, T.J., Inslicht, S.S. (2018). Association among anterior cingulate cortex volume, psychophysiological response, and PTSD diagnosis in a Veteran sample. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 155, 189-196 (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Young, D.A., Neylan, T.C., O'Donovan, A., Metzler, T., Richards, A., Ross, J.A., & Inslicht, S.S. (2018).The interaction of BDNF Val66Met, PTSD, and child abuse on psychophysiological reactivity and HPA axis function in a sample of Gulf War Veterans. Journal of Affective Disorders, 235, 52-60. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Inslict, S.S., Rao, M.N., Richards, A., O'Donovan, A., Metzler, T.J., & Neylan TC. (2018). Sleep and hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis responses to metyrapone in posttraumatic stress disorder. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 88, 136-143. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Dunn, E. C., Nishimi, K., Gomez, S. H., Powers, A., & Bradley, B. (2018). Developmental timing of trauma exposure and emotion dysregulation in adulthood: Are there sensitive periods when trauma is most harmful?. Journal of affective disorders, 227, 869–877. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
2017
O'Donovan, A., Neylan, T.C. (2017). Associations of Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder With Inflammation and Endothelial Function: On Timing, Specificity, and Mechanisms. Biological Psychiatry, 82(12), 861-863. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Mohlenhoff, B.S., O'Donovan, A., Weiner, M.W., Neylan T.C. (2017). Dementia Risk in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: the Relevance of Sleep-Related Abnormalities in Brain Structure, Amyloid, and Inflammation. Current Psychiatry Reports, 19(11), 89. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
O'Donovan, A.*, Ahmadian, A.J.*, Neylan, T.C., Pacult, M.A., Edmondson, D., Cohen, B.E. (2017). Current posttraumatic stress disorder and exaggerated threat sensitivity associated with elevated inflammation in the Mind Your Heart Study. Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 60, 198-205. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
*These two authors made equal contributions to this manuscript.
Richards, A., Inslicht, S., Metzler, T.J., Mohlenhoff, B., Rao, M.N., O'Donovan, A., Neylan, T.C. (2017). Sleep and Cognitive Performance From Teens To Old Age: More Is Not Better. Sleep, 40, 1-9. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Dunn, E. C., Nishimi, K., Powers, A., & Bradley, B. (2017). Is developmental timing of trauma exposure associated with depressive and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in adulthood?. Journal of psychiatric research, 84, 119–127. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
2016
Küffer, A.L., O'Donovan, A., Burri, A., Maercker, A. (2016). Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Adverse Childhood Events, and Buccal Cell Telomere Length in Elderly Swiss Former Indentured Child Laborers. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 7, 147. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
O'Donovan, A. (2016). PTSD is associated with elevated inflammation: any impact on clinical practice? Evidence-Based Mental Health, 19, 120. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Rush, G., O’Donovan, A., Nagle, L., Conway, C., McCrohan, A.M., O’Farrelly, C., Lucey, J.V., Malone, K.M. (2016). Alteration of immune markers in a group of melancholic depressed patients and their response to electroconvulsive therapy. Journal of Affective Disorders, 205, 60-68. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Ionescu, D.F.,* McAdams, C.J.,* O’Donovan, A.,* Philip, N.S.* (2016) Becoming an Academic Researcher in Psychiatry: A View from the Trenches. Academic Psychiatry, 41, 293-296. *All authors made equal contributions to this manuscript. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Lin, J.E., Neylan, T.C., Epel, E., O’Donovan, A. (2016). Associations of childhood adversity and adulthood trauma with C-reactive protein: A cross-sectional population-based study. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 53, 105-112. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
2015
Kumar, P., Slavich, G.M., Berghorst, L.H., Treadway, M.T., Brooks, N., Dutra, S., Greve, D.N., O’Donovan, A., Bleil, M.E., Maninger, N., Pizzagalli, D.A. (2015). Perceived life stress exposure modulates reward-related medial prefrontal cortex responses to acute stress in depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 180, 104-111. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Talbot, L.S., Rao, M.N., Cohen, B.E., Richards, A., Inslicht, S.S., O'Donovan, A., Maguen, S., Metzler, T.J., Neylan, T.C. (2015). Metabolic risk factors and posttraumatic stress disorder: the role of sleep in young, healthy adults. Psychosomatic Medicine, 77(4), 383-391. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Inslicht, S.S., Richards, A., Madden. E., Rao, M.N., O'Donovan, A., Talbot, L.S., Rucker, E., Metzler, T.J., Hauger, R.L., Neylan, T.C. (2015). Sex differences in neurosteroid and hormonal responses to metyrapone in posttraumatic stress disorder. Psychopharmacology, 231(17), 3581-3595. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Murphy, T.M., O'Donovan, A., Mullins, N., O'Farrelly, C., McCann, A., Malone, K. (2015).
Anxiety is associated with higher levels of global DNA methylation and altered expression of epigenetic and interleukin-6 genes. Psychiatric Genetics, 25(2), 71-8. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Adler, N.E., O’Donovan, A. (2015). Telomeres. Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. New York: Wiley. (View in: PDF)
O’Donovan, A., Cohen, B.E., Seal, K., Bertenthal, D., Margaretten, M., Nishimi, K., Neylan, T.N. (2015). Elevated risk for autoimmune disorders in Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 77(4), 365-374. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
2014
Woolley, J.D., Chuang, B., Lam, O., Lai, W., O’Donovan, A., Rankin, K., Mathalon, D.H., Vinogradov, S. (2015). Oxytocin Administration Enhances Controlled Social Cognition in Patients with Schizophrenia. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 47, 116-125. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Rao, M.N., Chau, A., Madden, E., Inslicht, S., Talbot, L., Richards, A., O’Donovan, A., Ruoff, L., Grunfeld, C., Neylan, T.C. (2014). Hyperinsulinemic Response to Oral Glucose Challenge in Individuals with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 49, 171-181. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
O'Donovan, A., Chao, L., Paulson, J., Samuelson, K., Shigenaga, J., Grunfeld, C., Weiner, M., Neylan, T. (2014). Altered Inflammatory Activity is Associated with Reduced Hippocampal Volume and More Severe Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Gulf War Veterans. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 51, 557-566. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
O'Donovan, A. (2014). Inflammation and Depression: Unraveling the Complex Interplay in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 58(5), 541-542. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Puterman, E., Epel, E.S., O'Donovan, A., Prather, A.A., Aschbacher, K., Dhabhar, F.S. (2014). Anger is Associated with Increased IL-6 Stress Reactivity in Women, but Only Among Those Low in Social Support. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 21(6), 936-945. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
2013
O’Donovan, A., Rush, G., Hughes, B.M., Hoatam, G., McCrohan, A.M., Kelliher, C., O’Farrelly, C., Malone, K.M. (2013). Suicidal Ideation is Associated with Elevated Inflammation in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder. Depression and Anxiety, 30(4), 307-314. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Aschbacher, K.A., O'Donovan, A., Wolkowitz, O.M., Dhabhar, F.S., Su, Y., Epel, E. (2013). Good Stress, Bad Stress and Oxidative Stress: Insights from Anticipatory Cortisol Reactivity. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 38(9), 1698-1708. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Kosnes, L.E., Whelan, R., O'Donovan, A., McHugh, L. (2013). Implicit Measurement of Positive and Negative Future Thinking as a Predictor of Depressive Symptoms and Hopelessness. Consciousness and Cognition, 22(3), 898-912. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
O'Donovan, A., Slavich, G.M., Epel, E.S., Neylan, T.C. (2013). Exaggerated Neurobiological Sensitivity to Threat as a Mechanism Linking Anxiety with Increased Risk for Diseases of Aging. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 37(1), 96-108. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Adler, N., Pantell, M., O'Donovan, A., Blackburn, E., Cawthon, R., Koster, A., Opresko, P., Newman, A., Harris, T.B., Epel, E. (2013). Educational Attainment and Late Life Telomere Length in Health, Aging and Composition Study. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 27(1), 15-21. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
2012
O’Donovan, A., Neylan, T.N., Metzler, T., Cohen, B.E. (2012). Lifetime Exposure to Traumatic Psychological Stress is Associated with Elevated Inflammation in The Heart and Soul Study. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 26(4), 642-649. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
O’Donovan, A., Tomiyama, A.J., Lin, J., Puterman, E., Adler, N.E., Kemeny, M., Wolkowitz, O.M., Blackburn, E.H., Epel, E.S. (2012). Stress Appraisals and Biological Aging: A Key Role for Anticipatory Threat in the Relationship Between Psychological Stress and Telomere Length. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 26(4), 573-579. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
- One of the most downloaded papers in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity in 2012.
Tomiyama, A.J., O’Donovan, A., Lin, J., Puterman, E., Lazaro, A., Chan, J., Dhabhar, F.S., Blackburn, E.H., Epel, E.S. (2012). Does cellular aging relate to patterns of allostasis? An examination of basal and stress reactive HPA axis activity and telomere length. Physiology and Behavior, 106(1), 40-45. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
2011
O’Donovan, A., Epel, E.S., Lin, J., Wolkowitz, O., Cohen, B.E., Maguen, S., Metzler, T., Lenoci, M.A., Blackburn, E.H., Neylan, T.C. (2011). Childhood Trauma is Associated with Short Leukocyte Telomere Length in Young to Middle-Aged Adults with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 70(5), 465-471. *One of the most cited papers in Biological Psychiatry in 2011. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Prather, A.A., Puterman, E., Lin, J., O’Donovan, A., Krauss, J., Tomiyama, A.J., Epel, E.S., Blackburn, E.H. (2011). Shorter Leukocyte Telomere Length in Midlife Women with Poor Sleep Quality. Journal of Aging Research, e721390. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Puterman, E., O’Donovan, A., Adler, N., Tomiyama, J., Kemeny, M., Wolkowitz, O., Epel, E. (2011). Physical Activity Buffers Stressor-Induced Rumination on Acute Cortisol Reactivity. Psychosomatic Medicine, 73(7), 604-611. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
O’Donovan, A., Pantell, M., Puterman, E., Dhabhar, F.S., Blackburn, E.H., Yaffe, K., Cawthon, R.M., Opresko, P.L., Hsueh, W.C., Satterfield, S., Newman, A.B., Ayonayon, H.N., Rubin, S.M., Harris, T.B., Epel, E.S. for the Health Aging and Body Composition Study (2011). Cumulative Inflammatory Load is Associated with Short Leukocyte Telomere Length in the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study. PLoS ONE, 6(5), e19687. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
O’Donovan, A., Sun, B. Cole, S., Rempel, H., Lenoci, M.A., Pulliam, L., Neylan, T.C. (2011) Transcriptional Control Activity of Monocyte Gene Expression in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Disease Markers, 30(2-3), 123-132. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Neylan, T.C., Sun, B., Rempel, H., Ross, J., Lenoci, M.A., O’Donovan, A., Pulliam, L. (2011). Suppressed monocyte gene expression profile in men versus women with PTSD. Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 25(3), 524-531. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
2010
O’Donovan, A., Hughes, B.M., Slavich, G.M., Lynch, L., Cronin, M.T., O’Farrelly, C., Malone, K.M. (2010). Clinical Anxiety, Cortisol and Interleukin-6: Evidence for Specificity in Emotion-Biology Relationships. Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 24(7), 1074-1077. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Puterman, E., Lin, J., Blackburn, E., O'Donovan, A., Adler, N., Epel, E. (2010). The power of exercise: Buffering the effect of stress on telomere length. PLoS ONE, 5(5), e10837. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
Slavich, G.M., O’Donovan, A., Epel, E., Kemeny, M. (2010). Black Sheep Get the Blues: A Psychobiological Model of Social Rejection and Depression. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 35, 39-45. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
O’Loughlin, C., Murphy, N.F., Conlon, C., O’Donovan, A., Ledwidge, M., McDonald, K. (2010). Quality of Life Predicts Outcome in a Heart Failure Disease Management Program. International Journal of Cardiology, 139(1), 60-67. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
2009
2008
O’Donovan, A., Hughes, B.M. (2008). Access to social support in life and in the laboratory: combined impact on cardiovascular reactivity to stress and state anxiety. Journal of Health Psychology, 13(8), 1147-1156. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
O’Donovan, A., Hughes, B.M. (2008). Social Support and Loneliness in College Students: Effects on Pulse Pressure Reactivity to Acute Stress. International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, 19(4), 523-528. (View in: PDF | PubMed)
O’Donovan, A., Hughes, B.M. (2008). Factors that Moderate the Effects of Laboratory-Based Social Support on Cardiovascular Reactivity to Stress. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 8(1), 85-102. (View in: PDF)
2006
2005
Whelan, R., Cullinan, V., O’Donovan, A., Rodríguez Valverde, M. (2005). Derived Same and Opposite Relations Produce Association and Mediated Priming. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 5(1), 247-264. (View in: PDF)
2004
O’Donovan, A., Hughes, B.M. (2004). The stress-buffering effects of social support on blood pressure and heart rate. The Irish Psychologist, 30(9), 216-220. (No PDF available at the moment)
O’Donovan, A. (2004). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An experiential guide to behavior change. The Irish Psychologist, 30(7), 157. (No PDF available at the moment)