Although intermittent increases in inflammation are critical for survival during physical injury
and infection, recent research has revealed that certain social, environmental and lifestyle …

Major life stressors, especially those involving interpersonal stress and social rejection, are
among the strongest proximal risk factors for depression. In this review, we propose a …

COVID-19 presents significant social, economic, and medical challenges. Because COVID-19
has already begun to precipitate huge increases in mental health problems, clinical …

Approaches to classroom instruction have evolved considerably over the past 50 years. This
progress has been spurred by the development of several learning principles and methods …

Mindfulness meditation represents a mental training framework for cultivating the state of
mindful awareness in daily life. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in how mindfulness …

Stress can influence health throughout the lifespan, yet there is little agreement about what
types and aspects of stress matter most for human health and disease. This is in part …

Objective: A sense of belonging – the subjective feeling of deep connection with social
groups, physical places, and individual and collective experiences – is a fundamental human …

Although we generally experience our bodies as being biologically stable across time and
situations, an emerging field of research is demonstrating that external social conditions, …

Although stress-induced increases in inflammation have been implicated in several major
disorders, including cardiovascular disease and depression, the neurocognitive pathways that …

Major life events involving social rejection are strongly associated with onset of depression.
To account for this relation, we propose a psychobiological model in which rejection-related …