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Published since 1939, Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine is the official peer-reviewed journal of the Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine. The journal changed its name from Psychosomatic Medicine.
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16.10.2025 20:17 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Exploratory analyses also pointed to sexual abuse as being more strongly associated with impairments in these fear/safety distinctions compared to other early abuse exposures.
16.10.2025 20:17 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Broadly, "[their] findings suggest that individuals exposed to abuse in childhood display impairment in discerning nonthreatening stimuli from threatening stimuli in their environment in adulthood."
16.10.2025 20:17 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0How may abuse in childhood contribute to an elevated risk for such a wide range of maladaptive health outcomes in adulthood?
This study focused on impairments in fear learning processes (i.e., discerning between fear and safety signals in oneโs environment). #psychscisky
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This is an image of the call for submissions to a special issue of Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine. The special issue is titled: Protocols and Data Notes in Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology. The Editors for the special issue are Daryl O'Connor and Suzanne Segerstrom. The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2026.
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09.10.2025 14:15 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0BSAM is welcoming submissions on any area of health psychology/behavioral medicine for a special issue for protocols and data notes! Goal is to support open/transparent research culture. Accepting submissions through 6/1/2026.
09.10.2025 14:15 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0There were also important differences in the magnitude of the discrimination-inflammation association based on the type of discrimination measured, the specific inflammatory marker, and methodological features. Many important future directions in this space!
08.10.2025 15:05 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0In a recent meta-analysis and systematic review, Cardenas et al., (2025) found that greater discrimination was associated with higher levels of systemic inflammation based on 161 effect sizes from 47 articles representing โผ74,763 participants
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The October issue of BSAM covers topics spanning discrimination, neighborhood opportunities, fear learning processes, with implications for cardiovascular reactivity, biological aging, among others.
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Does a negative itch expectancy manipulation (via verbal suggestions and conditioning) lead to more costly itch-related avoidance behavior?
You can learn more from this Open Access paper published in BSAM: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...
Does the type of acute psychological stress (active versus passive) hold implications for stress-induced changes in proportions of monocyte subsets?
Evidence from this study of young, healthy adults suggests that it does! Read more in BSAM (free through the 29th):
Kudos to the authors for this work!:
Tara Petzke, Ferenc Kรถteles, Omer Van den Bergh, and @michaelwitthoeft.bsky.social
How temporally stable are somatic symptoms induced by a commonly used experimental paradigm? And do they predict somatic symptom distress over time?
These questions were addressed in an Open Access study of participants who completed the Affect and Symptom Paradigm 18 months apart. #PsychSciSky
New in BSAM - Asthma: Biomedical and Psychobiological Perspectives
This review combines a recognition of societal factors that worsen & consolidate disparities in asthma outcomes + explores mechanisms to support resilience in asthma patients from disadvantaged communities.
Free for the week!
The September issue of BSAM is available now!
Check out a summary of papers in this issue here: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...
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The research team also highlighted the need for more studies like this in rural areas because research focused on vigilance among African Americans is heavily drawing from urban areas and the social context may affect stress-related psychological and physiological processes.
27.08.2025 22:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Elevated systemic inflammation (CRP) is one pathway through which heightened vigilance may contribute to CVD risk for African Americans adults.
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Among people diagnosed with lung cancer, how does the co-occurrence of depression and systemic inflammation at diagnosis link with trajectories of depressive symptoms in the next 8 months?
Read this new research for free through August 28th!:
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Do late adolescents and emerging adults who live in a communities with higher violent crime rates exhibit altered reward-related neural activation? This question was recently investigated in a sample of 101 adolescents.
Read more in BSAM, free for the week!
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In studentsโ first year of college, how do first-generation status and financial stress influence changes in inflammation and depressive symptoms? You can read this new research published in BSAM for free through August 21st! #disparities #psychscisky
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In studentsโ first year of college, how do first-generation status and financial stress influence changes in inflammation and depressive symptoms? You can read this new research published in BSAM for free through August 21st! #disparities #psychscisky
Read here: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...
Chronic pain can affect a person's social relationships, but is one's empathic capacity disrupted when experiencing chronic pain? This topic was explored in a recent systematic review and meta-analysis published in BSAM.
Free to read for the next week! #chronicpain #healthpsych
Chronic pain can affect a person's social relationships, but is one's empathic capacity disrupted when experiencing chronic pain? This topic was explored in a recent systematic review and meta-analysis published in BSAM.
Free to read for the next week! #chronicpain #healthpsych
In this month's issue of BSAM, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh investigated links between dietary intake of antioxidant nutrients and a structural neuroimaging indicator of brain age in midlife adults. #nutrition #brainaging
You can read the results in their open-access paper here:
Have you read the research from the latest issue of Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine?
You can check out brief article summaries here!: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...
My dept (HDFS) at Texas Tech is hiring an Assistant Professor who studies family science and health, broadly defined to include physical health, mental health, community health, and relational health, including romantic and intergenerational relationships. Plz share widely! #healthpsych
31.07.2025 23:11 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1๐จCalling all health psychologists!
Submit to the Special Issue of BSAM on Protocols & Data Notes in Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology + share this call widely to support a more open & transparent culture aimed at improving the rigor & reproducibility of our research!
Call for submissions: