Susan S Girdler
Biographic Data
| ID | 2351084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan S Girdler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan S |
| FAMILY NAME | Girdler |
| SIGNATURE | GIRDLER S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0190-0938 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on Experimental Pain Sensitivity and Cortisol Responses in Women With Early Life Abuse
OBJECTIVE: Early life abuse (ELAb) initiates pathophysiological cascades resulting in long-term maladaptive stress responsivity, hyperalgesia, and an increased risk of psychopathology. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is effective in modifying psychological and somatic symptoms; thus, we predicted that MBSR would be particularly efficacious for women with ELAb. METHOD: Medically healthy women (mean age = 31 years) with or without a histo…
Personal resource profiles of individuals with a history of interpersonal trauma and their impact on opioid misuse
Findings suggest that sex and race/ethnicity play an important role in the personal resource profiles of individuals with a history of interpersonal trauma. Interventions to promote resiliency and mitigate the effects of trauma on opioid misuse should consider personal resource profiles, mental health, and effective pain management. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Early Life Abuse Moderates the Effects of Intranasal Oxytocin on Symptoms of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
Background: Although intranasal oxytocin (OXT) has been proposed to be a promising treatment for some psychiatric disorders, little research has addressed individual difference factors that may predict response to OXT. One such factor is early life abuse (ELA), which has widespread influences on social-emotional processing and behavior. This single-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial examined the role of ELA in shaping the effects of intran…
The Role of Chronic Psychosocial Stress in Explaining Racial Differences in Stress Reactivity and Pain Sensitivity
OBJECTIVE: To examine the role of psychosocial factors in mediating the relationship between African American (AA) race and both increased pain sensitivity and blunted stress reactivity. METHODS: Participants included 133 AA and non-Hispanic white (nHW) individuals (mean [SD] age, 37 [9]) matched for age, sex, and socioeconomic status. Participants underwent mental stress testing (Trier Social Stress Test) while cardiovascular, hemodynamic, and n…
Perinatal Depression, Adverse Life Events, and Hypothalamic–Adrenal–Pituitary Axis Response to Cold Pressor Stress in Latinas
A Biopsychosocial Conceptual Framework of Postpartum Depression Risk in Immigrant and U.S.-born Latina Mothers in the United States
Mood symptoms and personality dimensions as determinants of health-related quality of life in patients with coronary artery disease
This study examined the effects of personality dimensions in relation to the symptoms of depression and anxiety on health-related quality of life in coronary artery disease patients ( N = 514). A linear regression analysis showed that symptoms of depression and anxiety as well as personality trait of emotional stability have independent significant effect on the health-related quality of life in patients with coronary artery disease. Psychologica…
Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Thyroid Axis Function in Women With a Menstrually Related Mood Disorder
INTRODUCTION: We previously reported a unique hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis profile in women with a menstrually related mood disorder (MRMD) who also had a history of sexual abuse (SA). In the present study, we sought to extend that work by examining the association of an SA history with HPT-axis disturbance in both women with MRMD and women without MRMD. METHODS: Fifty-seven women met the prospective criteria for MRMD (23 with an SA …
Ethnicity is associated with alterations in oxytocin relationships to pain sensitivity in women
These data suggest that reduced oxytocinergic function may be one of multiple biological factors contributing to the greater sensitivity to experimental ischemic pain, and to the greater burden of some types of clinical pain experienced by African Americans compared with Whites
Effects of Partner Support on Resting Oxytocin, Cortisol, Norepinephrine, and Blood Pressure Before and After Warm Partner Contact
Objective: We examined whether the magnitude of plasma oxytocin (OT), norepinephrine (NE), cortisol, and blood pressure (BP) responses before and after a brief episode of warm contact (WC) with the spouse/partner may be related to the strength of perceived partner support. Methods: Subjects were 38 cohabiting couples (38 men, 38 women) aged 20 to 49 years. All underwent 10 minutes of resting baseline alone, 10 minutes of WC together with their pa…
African Americans Show Alterations in Endogenous Pain Regulatory Mechanisms and Reduced Pain Tolerance to Experimental Pain Procedures
OBJECTIVES: To examine ethnic differences in pain sensitivity and relationship of pain tolerance to blood pressure and neuroendocrine factors. METHODS: Fifty-one African Americans (24 men, 27 women) and 55 people from other ethnic groups (primarily Caucasian; 26 men, 29 women) were tested twice for pain sensitivity to tourniquet ischemia, thermal heat, and cold pressor tests, once following mental stress and once following rest control. Resting a…
Historical Sexual Abuse and Current Thyroid Axis Profiles in Women With Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
Objective: This study investigated whether women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) who also had histories of sexual abuse differed from women with PMDD with no previous sexual abuse and from women without PMDD in hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (axis measures). Methods: Ten sexually abused women with PMDD were compared with 18 nonabused women with PMDD and 22 nonabused women without PMDD for hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis hormone co…
Historical Sexual Abuse and Current Thyroid Axis Profiles in Women With Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
OBJECTIVE: This study investigated whether women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) who also had histories of sexual abuse differed from women with PMDD with no previous sexual abuse and from women without PMDD in hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (axis measures). METHODS: Ten sexually abused women with PMDD were compared with 18 nonabused women with PMDD and 22 nonabused women without PMDD for hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis hormone co…
Depressive Symptoms Are Related to Higher Ambulatory Blood Pressure in People With a Family History of Hypertension
OBJECTIVE: We investigated whether parental history of hypertension (FH+) enhances the impact of depressed mood, indexed by Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), on ambulatory blood pressure (ABP). METHODS: Twenty-four-hour ABP, urinary norepinephrine (NE), and cortisol were obtained in 314 unmedicated normotensive and hypertensive men and women (age 18-64 years) who also completed the BDI. RESULTS: Subjects with a positive family history of hypertens…
Biological Correlates of Abuse in Women with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder and Healthy Controls
OBJECTIVE: To examine the biological correlates associated with histories of sexual or physical abuse in women meeting DSM criteria for premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) and in healthy, non-PMDD controls. METHODS: Twenty-eight women with prospectively confirmed PMDD were compared with 28 non-PMDD women for cardiovascular and neuroendocrine measures at rest and in response to mental stressors, and for beta-adrenergic receptor responsivity, du…
Warm Partner Contact Is Related to Lower Cardiovascular Reactivity
The authors investigated the relationship between brief warm social and physical contact among cohabitating couples and blood pressure (BP) reactivity to stress in a sample of healthy adults (66 African American, 117 Caucasian; 74 women, 109 men). Prior to stress, the warm contact group underwent a 10-minute period of handholding while viewing a romantic video. Followed by a 20-second hug with their partner, while the no contact group rested quie…
Women With Eating Disorder Tendencies Display Altered Cardiovascular, Neuroendocrine, and Psychosocial Profiles
OBJECTIVE: Cardiovascular, neuroendocrine, and psychosocial profiles were investigated in women with eating disorder tendencies, but who had never met clinical criteria for an eating disorder, and in healthy controls. METHODS: Twenty-six women who scored in the highest distribution of the Eating Disorder Inventory bulimia subscale (HEDI women) and 27 women who scored in the lowest distribution (LEDI women) completed psychosocial questionnaires, u…
Sexual and Physical Abuse Associated With Cardiovascular Response to Stress
Hormone Replacement Reduces Lab and 24-Hour Blood Pressure in Hypertensive Postmenopausal Women
Adamian, M. S.; Girdler, S. S.; West, S. G.; Grewen, K. M.; Chung, S. H.; Koo, J.; Hinderliter, A.; Light, K. C. Author Information
Allopregnanolone, Stress and Mood in Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
Straneva, P.; Girdler, S. S.; Light, K. C.; Benjamin, S. E.; Morrow, L. Author Information
Cognitive Appraisal of the Stable Character of Negative Events Interacts With Ses to Influence 24-Hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure
Neuroendocrine Factors in Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
Girdler, S.; Sherwood, A.; Hinderliter, A.; Stanwyck, C.; Pedersen, C.; Maixner, W.; Light, K. Author Information
Blood Pressure-Related Hypoalgesia in Bulimia Nervosa
OBJECTIVE: This study examined pain sensitivity and its relationship to arterial blood pressure in bulimia nervosa (BN). METHODS: Fourteen women who met Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, criteria for BN, purging subtype, and 14 controls were tested for ischemic pain sensitivity after an extended baseline period. Blood pressure, cardiac output, stroke volume, and total peripheral resistance were assessed during ba…
Hormone Replacement Reduces Vasoconstriction and Mean Blood Pressure at Rest and During Stress in Healthy Postmenopausal Women
Light, Kathleen C.; Girdler, Susan S.; West, Sheila G.; Grewen, Karen M.; Steege, John F.; Stanwyck, Catherine L.; Ranc, Jean; Lamothe, Traci L.; Chung, Sunny H.; Brown, Heather; Hinderliter, Alan L. Author Information
Smoking, Oral Contraceptives and Cardiovascular Health in Women
Departments of (Straneva, Lenahan, Girdler) Psychology and Psychiatry, (Hinderliter) Medicine, and (Wells) Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ethnicity is associated with alterations in oxytocin relationships to pain sensitivity in women
These data suggest that reduced oxytocinergic function may be one of multiple biological factors contributing to the greater sensitivity to experimental ischemic pain, and to the greater burden of some types of clinical pain experienced by African Americans compared with Whites
Gender differences in blood pressure control during a variety of behavioral stressors
This study assessed gender differences in hemodynamic response patterns to behavioral stressors. In addition, the extent to which gender differences in cardiovascular reactivity were a function of the type of challenge was determined by employing tasks relying on stereotypically male areas of competence and a task relying on stereotypically female areas of competence. Sixteen female and 15 male graduate, medical or dental students were exposed to…
Smoking Status and Nicotine Administration Differentially Modify Hemodynamic Stress Reactivity in Men and Women
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the impact of cigarette smoking and oral contraceptive (OC) use on hemodynamic stress responses of women. Also, to examine gender differences in stress reactivity as a function of smoking status and acute nicotine administration. METHODS: Thirty men and 46 women, differing in smoking status and OC use, were tested for cardiovascular stress responses to a variety of behavioral and physical stressors. Each was tested twic…
Ischemic but Not Thermal Pain Sensitivity Varies Across the Menstrual Cycle
OBJECTIVE AND METHOD: Findings from both animal and human research suggest that pain sensitivity changes across the menstrual cycle; however, among humans the nature of these menstrual cycle effects remains unclear. The present study used a repeated-measures design to evaluate changes in thermal and ischemic pain responses during three phases of the menstrual cycle, midfollicular (postmenstrual), ovulatory, and mid-to-late luteal (premenstrual), …
Neuroendocrine Factors in Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
Girdler, S.; Sherwood, A.; Hinderliter, A.; Stanwyck, C.; Pedersen, C.; Maixner, W.; Light, K. Author Information
Blood Pressure-Related Hypoalgesia in Bulimia Nervosa
OBJECTIVE: This study examined pain sensitivity and its relationship to arterial blood pressure in bulimia nervosa (BN). METHODS: Fourteen women who met Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, criteria for BN, purging subtype, and 14 controls were tested for ischemic pain sensitivity after an extended baseline period. Blood pressure, cardiac output, stroke volume, and total peripheral resistance were assessed during ba…
Hormone Replacement Reduces Vasoconstriction and Mean Blood Pressure at Rest and During Stress in Healthy Postmenopausal Women
Light, Kathleen C.; Girdler, Susan S.; West, Sheila G.; Grewen, Karen M.; Steege, John F.; Stanwyck, Catherine L.; Ranc, Jean; Lamothe, Traci L.; Chung, Sunny H.; Brown, Heather; Hinderliter, Alan L. Author Information
Smoking, Oral Contraceptives and Cardiovascular Health in Women
Departments of (Straneva, Lenahan, Girdler) Psychology and Psychiatry, (Hinderliter) Medicine, and (Wells) Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Sexual and Physical Abuse Associated With Cardiovascular Response to Stress
Hormone Replacement Reduces Lab and 24-Hour Blood Pressure in Hypertensive Postmenopausal Women
Adamian, M. S.; Girdler, S. S.; West, S. G.; Grewen, K. M.; Chung, S. H.; Koo, J.; Hinderliter, A.; Light, K. C. Author Information
Allopregnanolone, Stress and Mood in Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
Straneva, P.; Girdler, S. S.; Light, K. C.; Benjamin, S. E.; Morrow, L. Author Information
Cognitive Appraisal of the Stable Character of Negative Events Interacts With Ses to Influence 24-Hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure
Women With Eating Disorder Tendencies Display Altered Cardiovascular, Neuroendocrine, and Psychosocial Profiles
OBJECTIVE: Cardiovascular, neuroendocrine, and psychosocial profiles were investigated in women with eating disorder tendencies, but who had never met clinical criteria for an eating disorder, and in healthy controls. METHODS: Twenty-six women who scored in the highest distribution of the Eating Disorder Inventory bulimia subscale (HEDI women) and 27 women who scored in the lowest distribution (LEDI women) completed psychosocial questionnaires, u…
Biological Correlates of Abuse in Women with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder and Healthy Controls
OBJECTIVE: To examine the biological correlates associated with histories of sexual or physical abuse in women meeting DSM criteria for premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) and in healthy, non-PMDD controls. METHODS: Twenty-eight women with prospectively confirmed PMDD were compared with 28 non-PMDD women for cardiovascular and neuroendocrine measures at rest and in response to mental stressors, and for beta-adrenergic receptor responsivity, du…
Warm Partner Contact Is Related to Lower Cardiovascular Reactivity
The authors investigated the relationship between brief warm social and physical contact among cohabitating couples and blood pressure (BP) reactivity to stress in a sample of healthy adults (66 African American, 117 Caucasian; 74 women, 109 men). Prior to stress, the warm contact group underwent a 10-minute period of handholding while viewing a romantic video. Followed by a 20-second hug with their partner, while the no contact group rested quie…
Historical Sexual Abuse and Current Thyroid Axis Profiles in Women With Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
Objective: This study investigated whether women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) who also had histories of sexual abuse differed from women with PMDD with no previous sexual abuse and from women without PMDD in hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (axis measures). Methods: Ten sexually abused women with PMDD were compared with 18 nonabused women with PMDD and 22 nonabused women without PMDD for hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis hormone co…
Historical Sexual Abuse and Current Thyroid Axis Profiles in Women With Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
OBJECTIVE: This study investigated whether women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) who also had histories of sexual abuse differed from women with PMDD with no previous sexual abuse and from women without PMDD in hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (axis measures). METHODS: Ten sexually abused women with PMDD were compared with 18 nonabused women with PMDD and 22 nonabused women without PMDD for hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis hormone co…
Depressive Symptoms Are Related to Higher Ambulatory Blood Pressure in People With a Family History of Hypertension
OBJECTIVE: We investigated whether parental history of hypertension (FH+) enhances the impact of depressed mood, indexed by Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), on ambulatory blood pressure (ABP). METHODS: Twenty-four-hour ABP, urinary norepinephrine (NE), and cortisol were obtained in 314 unmedicated normotensive and hypertensive men and women (age 18-64 years) who also completed the BDI. RESULTS: Subjects with a positive family history of hypertens…
Effects of Partner Support on Resting Oxytocin, Cortisol, Norepinephrine, and Blood Pressure Before and After Warm Partner Contact
Objective: We examined whether the magnitude of plasma oxytocin (OT), norepinephrine (NE), cortisol, and blood pressure (BP) responses before and after a brief episode of warm contact (WC) with the spouse/partner may be related to the strength of perceived partner support. Methods: Subjects were 38 cohabiting couples (38 men, 38 women) aged 20 to 49 years. All underwent 10 minutes of resting baseline alone, 10 minutes of WC together with their pa…
African Americans Show Alterations in Endogenous Pain Regulatory Mechanisms and Reduced Pain Tolerance to Experimental Pain Procedures
OBJECTIVES: To examine ethnic differences in pain sensitivity and relationship of pain tolerance to blood pressure and neuroendocrine factors. METHODS: Fifty-one African Americans (24 men, 27 women) and 55 people from other ethnic groups (primarily Caucasian; 26 men, 29 women) were tested twice for pain sensitivity to tourniquet ischemia, thermal heat, and cold pressor tests, once following mental stress and once following rest control. Resting a…
Ethnicity is associated with alterations in oxytocin relationships to pain sensitivity in women
These data suggest that reduced oxytocinergic function may be one of multiple biological factors contributing to the greater sensitivity to experimental ischemic pain, and to the greater burden of some types of clinical pain experienced by African Americans compared with Whites
Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Thyroid Axis Function in Women With a Menstrually Related Mood Disorder
INTRODUCTION: We previously reported a unique hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis profile in women with a menstrually related mood disorder (MRMD) who also had a history of sexual abuse (SA). In the present study, we sought to extend that work by examining the association of an SA history with HPT-axis disturbance in both women with MRMD and women without MRMD. METHODS: Fifty-seven women met the prospective criteria for MRMD (23 with an SA …
Mood symptoms and personality dimensions as determinants of health-related quality of life in patients with coronary artery disease
This study examined the effects of personality dimensions in relation to the symptoms of depression and anxiety on health-related quality of life in coronary artery disease patients ( N = 514). A linear regression analysis showed that symptoms of depression and anxiety as well as personality trait of emotional stability have independent significant effect on the health-related quality of life in patients with coronary artery disease. Psychologica…
A Biopsychosocial Conceptual Framework of Postpartum Depression Risk in Immigrant and U.S.-born Latina Mothers in the United States
The Role of Chronic Psychosocial Stress in Explaining Racial Differences in Stress Reactivity and Pain Sensitivity
OBJECTIVE: To examine the role of psychosocial factors in mediating the relationship between African American (AA) race and both increased pain sensitivity and blunted stress reactivity. METHODS: Participants included 133 AA and non-Hispanic white (nHW) individuals (mean [SD] age, 37 [9]) matched for age, sex, and socioeconomic status. Participants underwent mental stress testing (Trier Social Stress Test) while cardiovascular, hemodynamic, and n…
Perinatal Depression, Adverse Life Events, and Hypothalamic–Adrenal–Pituitary Axis Response to Cold Pressor Stress in Latinas
Medicine (28 works) · Internal Medicine (25 works) · Psychology (23 works) · Internal Medicine (20 works) · Clinical Psychology (15 works) · Psychiatry (14 works) · Blood pressure (13 works) · Hormone (9 works) · Menstrual Health and Disorders (9 works) · Heart rate (8 works)