Richard Davidson
Richard Davidson, PhD, is a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research focuses on meditation, mindfulness-based interventions, and psychological well-being. His published work also includes neuroimaging studies on posttraumatic stress disorder, brain development and aging, and assessments of stress and burnout.
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- Structural Covariance of Early Visual Cortex Is Negatively Associated With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms: A Mega-Analysis From the ENIGMA PTSD Working Group.
- Volumetric Differences of Thalamic Nuclei Are Associated With Posttrauma Psychopathology.
- Disrupted thalamocortical functional connectivity and canonical resting-state network integration in posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Work Hours, Stress, and Burnout Among Resident Physicians.
- Correction: Slower respiration rate is associated with higher self-reported well-being after wellness training.
- Demographics in distress: a national study of burnout and well-being of resident physicians in high-burnout specialties.
- Major Lifetime Discrimination Exposure Accelerates Brain Microstructural Aging: Diffusion MRI Evidence From MIDUS.
- "I definitely think I can flourish": Exploring First Year College Student Experiences in a Flourishing-focused Class.
- Lower Gyrification of the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An ENIGMA-PTSD Study.
- Sitting and Active Meditation Practice: Utilization and Associations with Outcomes in Naturalistic and Clinical Trial Data.
- White matter microstructure and its association with visuospatial processing development during early infancy.
- Correction: Healthy Minds Index: A brief measure of the core dimensions of well-being.
- Disrupted intrathalamic and thalamocortical structural covariance networks in posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Resting-State Functional Connectivity of the Amygdala and Hippocampus in PTSD: Results From the PGC-ENIGMA PTSD Working Group.
- Neural mechanisms of mindfulness-based stress reduction in asthma.
- Prevalence and Predictors of Self-Reported Adverse Experiences in Digital Meditation Training: 2 Randomized Controlled Trials.
- Enhancement of sleep slow wave activity using transcranial electrical stimulation with temporal interference: an interim analysis of the STRENGTHEN study.
- Shared and specific associations of amygdala nuclei volumes with PTSD symptom domains and childhood trauma: An ENIGMA-PGC PTSD mega-analysis.
- Personalized prediction of response to three meditation practices: A randomized controlled trial.
- ENIGMA-Meditation: Worldwide Consortium for Neuroscientific Investigations of Meditation Practices.
- Multimedia: multimodal mediation analysis of microbiome data.
- Connectome-Based Predictive Modeling of Trait Mindfulness.
- Intracranial substrates of meditation-induced neuromodulation in the amygdala and hippocampus.
- Can the virtual implementation of a college course on human flourishing improve student flourishing during COVID-19? A multi-university study.
- Psychological Mediators of Reduced Distress: Preregistered Analyses from a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Smartphone-Based Well-Being Training.
- Is dosage of a meditation app associated with changes in psychological distress? It depends on how you ask.
- Structural covariance of early visual cortex is negatively associated with PTSD symptoms: A Mega-Analysis from the ENIGMA PTSD workgroup.
- Mindfulness Training Enhances Students' Executive Functioning and Social Emotional Skills.
- Mother Earth kinship: Centering Indigenous worldviews to address the Anthropocene and rethink the ethics of human-to-nature connectedness.
- Image-Based Meta- and Mega-Analysis (IBMMA): A Unified Framework for Large-Scale, Multi-Site, Neuroimaging Data Analysis.
- A whole-brain voxel-based analysis of structural abnormalities in PTSD: An ENIGMA-PGC study.
- Healthy emotionality protects from the detrimental well-being consequences of low economic status.
- Wellbeing skills strengthening as a model for healthy adolescent digital technology use.
- Data-Driven Approach to Dynamic Resting State Functional Connectivity in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: An ENIGMA-PGC PTSD Study.
- Volumetric Differences of Thalamic Nuclei are Associated with Post-Trauma Psychopathology.
- Healthy minds index, Spanish version of core dimensions of wellbeing.
- Digital Well-Being Training With Health Care Professionals: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
- Image-based meta- and mega-analysis (IBMMA): A unified framework for large-scale, multi-site, neuroimaging data analysis.
- COVID-19 pandemic effects on college student mental health: A cross-sectional cohort comparison study.
- Behavioral adjustment moderates the effect of neuroticism on brain volume relative to intracranial volume.
- Resting EEG Periodic and Aperiodic Components Predict Cognitive Decline Over 10 Years.
- Revealing subgroup-specific mechanisms of change via moderated mediation: A meditation intervention example.
- Resting state functional connectivity changes following mindfulness-based stress reduction predict improvements in disease control for patients with asthma.
- Examining the association between posttraumatic stress disorder and disruptions in cortical networks identified using data-driven methods.
- Smaller total and subregional cerebellar volumes in posttraumatic stress disorder: a mega-analysis by the ENIGMA-PGC PTSD workgroup.
- Resting EEG Periodic and Aperiodic Components Predict Cognitive Decline Over 10 Years.
- How often should I meditate? A randomized trial examining the role of meditation frequency when total amount of meditation is held constant.
- Purpose in life as a resilience factor for brain health: diffusion MRI findings from the Midlife in the U.S. study.
- Contemplative Science Comes of Age: Looking Backward and Forward 20 Years After Baer (2003).
- multimedia: Multimodal Mediation Analysis of Microbiome Data.
- Is informal practice associated with outcomes in loving-kindness and compassion training? Evidence from pre-post and daily diary assessments.
- Altered topological structure of the brain white matter in maltreated children through topological data analysis.
- Healthy Minds Index: A brief measure of the core dimensions of well-being.
- Evidence for Bidirectional, Cross-Lagged Associations Between Alliance and Psychological Distress in an Unguided Mobile-Health Intervention.
- Connectome predictive modeling of trait mindfulness.
- Understanding the Implementation of Informal Meditation Practice in a Smartphone-Based Intervention: A Qualitative Analysis.
- Gray matter based spatial statistics framework in the 1-month brain: insights into gray matter microstructure in infancy.
- Does it matter how meditation feels? An experience sampling study.
- Differences in Emotion Expression, Suppression, and Cardiovascular Consequences Between Black and White Americans in the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) Study.
- College Course About Flourishing and Students' Mental Health During SARS-CoV-2.
- Influence of mindfulness meditation on intracranial EEG parameters in epileptic and non-epileptic brain areas.
- Mindfulness and connection training during preservice teacher education reduces early career teacher attrition 4 years later.
- White matter microstructure predicts individual differences in infant fear (But not anger and sadness).
- Inverse association between stress induced cortisol elevations and negative emotional reactivity to stress in humans.
- Who Sticks with Meditation? Rates and Predictors of Persistence in a Population-based Sample in the USA.
- Cultivating well-being in engineering graduate students through mindfulness training.
- Interventions to Modify Psychological Well-Being: Progress, Promises, and an Agenda for Future Research.
- Emotional Well-Being: What It Is and Why It Matters.
- A Perfect Storm to Set the Stage for Ontological Exploration: Response to Commentaries on "Emotional Well-Being: What It Is and Why It Matters".
- Altered Topological Structure of the Brain White Matter in Maltreated Children through Topological Data Analysis.
- Examining Equity in Access and Utilization of a Freely Available Meditation App.
- Educators Are Not Alright: Mental Health During COVID-19.
- Slower respiration rate is associated with higher self-reported well-being after wellness training.
- Discussion of "LESA: Longitudinal Elastic Shape Analysis of Brain Subcortical Structures".
- Prosociality should be a public health priority.
- Neuroimaging-based classification of PTSD using data-driven computational approaches: A multisite big data study from the ENIGMA-PGC PTSD consortium.
- Author Correction: Prosociality should be a public health priority.
- Visualizing Compassion: Episodic Simulation as Contemplative Practice.
- Time-resolved dynamic computational modeling of human EEG recordings reveals gradients of generative mechanisms for the MMN response.
- Brain imaging studies of emotional well-being: a scoping review.
- Automated motion artifact detection in early pediatric diffusion MRI using a convolutional neural network.
- Assessment of brain age in posttraumatic stress disorder: Findings from the ENIGMA PTSD and brain age working groups.
- Reduction of Motion Artifacts in Functional Connectivity Resulting from Infrequent Large Motion.
- Integrating mindfulness and connection practices into preservice teacher education results in durable automatic race bias reductions.
- Remodeling of the Cortical Structural Connectome in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Results From the ENIGMA-PGC Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Consortium.
- Absence of structural brain changes from mindfulness-based stress reduction: Two combined randomized controlled trials.
- Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy of an App-Based Meditation Intervention to Decrease Firefighter Psychological Distress and Burnout: A One-Group Pilot Study.
- The effects of perceived stress and anhedonic depression on mnemonic similarity task performance.
- Long-term Meditation Training Is Associated with Enhanced Subjective Attention and Stronger Posterior Cingulate-Rostrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Resting Connectivity.
- Periodic and aperiodic contributions to theta-beta ratios across adulthood.
- Perceived stress associations with hippocampal-dependent behavior and hippocampal subfield volume.
- Neural Signatures of Pain Modulation in Short-Term and Long-Term Mindfulness Training: A Randomized Active-Control Trial.
- A comparison of methods to harmonize cortical thickness measurements across scanners and sites.
- Clinically relevant effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in individuals with asthma.
- Epigenetic impact of a 1-week intensive multimodal group program for adolescents with multiple adverse childhood experiences.
- Personalized Prediction of Response to Smartphone-Delivered Meditation Training: Randomized Controlled Trial.
- A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Smartphone-Based Well-Being Training in Public School System Employees During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
- Can the Academic and Experiential Study of Flourishing Improve Flourishing in College Students? A Multi-University Study.
- Psychometric validation of the Italian version of the Emotional Style Questionnaire.
- Motivation for Meditation and its Association with Meditation Practice in a National Sample of Internet Users.
- Does meditation training promote pro-environmental behavior? A cross-sectional comparison and a randomized controlled trial.