Mara Mather, PhD

Professor of Gerontology, Psychology¿, and Biomedical Engineering

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Publications

  • 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