Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (new name!)

BSAM 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.

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Exploratory analyses also pointed to sexual abuse as being more strongly associated with impairments in these fear/safety distinctions compared to other early abuse exposures.

Broadly, "[their] findings suggest that individuals exposed to abuse in childhood display impairment in discerning nonthreatening stimuli from threatening stimuli in their environment in adulthood."

How 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 one’s 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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BSAM 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.

There 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!

In 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 ∼74,763 participants

Free to read this week: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...

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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🗓️ June 22–25, 2026
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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 Köteles, 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

Asthma: Biomedical and Psychobiological Perspectives : Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine ade in identifying mechanical, cellular and molecular mechanisms of asthma and influences of psychosocial factors on development, pathophysiology, and management have been demonstrated. However, much ...

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!

Article Summaries for September 2025 Biopsychosocial... : Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine An abstract is unavailable.

The September issue of BSAM is available now!

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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.

Vigilance and Systemic Inflammation Among Middle-Aged to... : Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine , threats related to discrimination), has previously been linked to markers of CVD risk among African Americans. However, the link between vigilance and inflammation remains underexplored in this popu...

Elevated systemic inflammation (CRP) is one pathway through which heightened vigilance may contribute to CVD risk for African Americans adults.

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Depression and Inflammation Predict Depression Trajectory... : Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine depression and systemic inflammation predicts a worsened trajectory of depressive symptoms from diagnosis through 8 months. Methods: An observational longitudinal cohort design was used (ClinicalTr...

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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What an incredible opportunity to learn about critical topics in sex and aging from The Kinsey Institute! Only $25 to attend online!

Greatly appreciate the focus on menopause, social and structural factors that shape our sexual lives, LGBTQ+ aging, vulvovaginal health, and sexual well-being.

Residence in Communities With Higher Violent Crimes... : Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine dequately understood. Furthermore, most of the adversity literature examines individual-level exposure (eg, crime victimization), whereas efforts to consider neighborhood-level factors (eg, neighborho...

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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The Influence of Financial Stress and First-generation... : Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine ssive symptoms across the first year of college. Methods: At the beginning and end of the academic year, a sample of N=198 first-year college students (Mage=18.1 y) provided dried blood spot sample...

In students’ 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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The Influence of Financial Stress and First-generation... : Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine ssive symptoms across the first year of college. Methods: At the beginning and end of the academic year, a sample of N=198 first-year college students (Mage=18.1 y) provided dried blood spot sample...

In students’ 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...

A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cognitive and... : Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine srupted in people with CP. Methods: A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted following PRISMA guidelines. PsycINFO, CINAHL Complete, MEDLINE Complete, and Scopus were searched on May 14,...

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

A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cognitive and... : Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine srupted in people with CP. Methods: A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted following PRISMA guidelines. PsycINFO, CINAHL Complete, MEDLINE Complete, and Scopus were searched on May 14,...

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

Circulating Antioxidant Nutrients and Brain Age in Midlife... : Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine ine. What is unclear, however, is the extent to which antioxidant nutrients may exert neuroprotective effects through their influence on established indicators of age-related changes in brain tissue. ...

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:

Article Summaries for July/August 2025 Biopsychosocial... : Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine An abstract is unavailable.

Have you read the research from the latest issue of Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine?

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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