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Mara Mather, PhD

Professor of Gerontology, Psychology¿, and Biomedical Engineering

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Publications

  • Autonomic dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2025 May; 26(5):276-292.. View in PubMed
  • Changes in Negative Emotions Across Five Weeks of HRV Biofeedback Intervention were Mediated by Changes in Resting Heart Rate Variability. Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback. 2025 Mar; 50(1):25-48.. View in PubMed
  • Correction to: Sex Differences in Neural Correlates of Emotion Regulation in Relation to Resting Heart Rate Variability. Brain Topogr. 2024 Nov; 37(6):1242.. View in PubMed
  • Applying human affectome framework to autonomic compensation model. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2024 Apr; 159:105611.. View in PubMed
  • Daily biofeedback to modulate heart rate oscillations affects structural volume in hippocampal subregions targeted by the locus coeruleus in older adults but not younger adults. Neurobiol Aging. 2023 12; 132:85-99.. View in PubMed
  • Daily heart rate variability biofeedback training decreases locus coeruleus MRI contrast in younger adults in a randomized clinical trial. Int J Psychophysiol. 2023 11; 193:112241.. View in PubMed
  • Sex Differences in Neural Correlates of Emotion Regulation in Relation to Resting Heart Rate Variability. Brain Topogr. 2023 09; 36(5):698-709.. View in PubMed
  • Multimodal neuroimaging data from a 5-week heart rate variability biofeedback randomized clinical trial. Sci Data. 2023 07 29; 10(1):503.. View in PubMed
  • Changes in Medial Prefrontal Cortex Mediate Effects of Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback on Positive Emotional Memory Biases. Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback. 2023 06; 48(2):135-147.. View in PubMed
  • Modulating heart rate oscillation affects plasma amyloid beta and tau levels in younger and older adults. Sci Rep. 2023 03 09; 13(1):3967.. View in PubMed
  • Increasing coordination and responsivity of emotion-related brain regions with a heart rate variability biofeedback randomized trial. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2023 02; 23(1):66-83.. View in PubMed
  • Heart rate variability (HRV) changes and cortical volume changes in a randomized trial of five weeks of daily HRV biofeedback in younger and older adults. Int J Psychophysiol. 2022 11; 181:50-63.. View in PubMed
  • Emotion Downregulation Targets Interoceptive Brain Regions While Emotion Upregulation Targets Other Affective Brain Regions. J Neurosci. 2022 04 06; 42(14):2973-2985.. View in PubMed
  • Is there a maximum desirable heart rate variability? Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2021 09; 128:87-89.. View in PubMed
  • Noradrenaline in the aging brain: Promoting cognitive reserve or accelerating Alzheimer’s disease? Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2021 08; 116:108-124.. View in PubMed
  • Commentary on Aging and Positive Mood: Longitudinal Neurobiological and Cognitive Correlates. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2020 09; 28(9):957-958.. View in PubMed
  • Isometric exercise facilitates attention to salient events in women via the noradrenergic system. Neuroimage. 2020 04 15; 210:116560.. View in PubMed
  • Brain structural concomitants of resting state heart rate variability in the young and old: evidence from two independent samples. Brain Struct Funct. 2018 Mar; 223(2):727-737.. View in PubMed
  • Arousal increases neural gain via the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system in younger adults but not in older adults. Nat Hum Behav. 2018; 2:356-366.. View in PubMed
  • Higher locus coeruleus MRI contrast is associated with lower parasympathetic influence over heart rate variability. Neuroimage. 2017 04 15; 150:329-335.. View in PubMed
  • The Locus Coeruleus: Essential for Maintaining Cognitive Function and the Aging Brain. Trends Cogn Sci. 2016 Mar; 20(3):214-226.. View in PubMed
  • Individual Differences in Anticipatory Somatosensory Cortex Activity for Shock is Positively Related with Trait Anxiety and Multisensory Integration. Brain Sci. 2016 Jan 06; 6(1).. View in PubMed
  • The Affective Neuroscience of Aging. Annu Rev Psychol. 2016; 67:213-38.. View in PubMed
  • Actions and interactions of estradiol and glucocorticoids in cognition and the brain: Implications for aging women. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2015 Aug; 55:36-52.. View in PubMed
  • Emotional arousal amplifies the effects of biased competition in the brain. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2014 Dec; 9(12):2067-77.. View in PubMed
  • How fMRI Can Inform Cognitive Theories. Perspect Psychol Sci. 2013 Jan; 8(1):108-13.. View in PubMed
  • Introduction to the Special Section: 20 Years of fMRI-What Has It Done for Understanding Cognition? Perspect Psychol Sci. 2013 Jan; 8(1):41-3.. View in PubMed
  • Risk preferences and aging: the “certainty effect” in older adults’ decision making. Psychol Aging. 2012 Dec; 27(4):801-16.. View in PubMed
  • The emotion paradox in the aging brain. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2012 Mar; 1251:33-49.. View in PubMed
  • Arousal-Biased Competition in Perception and Memory. Perspect Psychol Sci. 2011 Mar; 6(2):114-33.. View in PubMed
  • Sex differences in how stress affects brain activity during face viewing. Neuroreport. 2010 Oct 06; 21(14):933-7.. View in PubMed
  • To brake or accelerate when the light turns yellow? Stress reduces older adults’ risk taking in a driving game. Psychol Sci. 2009 Feb; 20(2):174-6.. View in PubMed
  • The limits of arousal’s memory-impairing effects on nearby information. Am J Psychol. 2009; 122(3):349-69.. View in PubMed
  • The emotional harbinger effect: poor context memory for cues that previously predicted something arousing. Emotion. 2008 Dec; 8(6):850-60.. View in PubMed

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