Michael M Myers
Biographic Data
| ID | 5677117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael M Myers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael M |
| FAMILY NAME | Myers |
| SIGNATURE | MYERS M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Effectiveness Trial of Family Nurture Intervention as a Standard of Care in the Nicu: Enhanced Brain Activity in Preterm Infants
Objective: This study sought to evaluate the effectiveness of Family Nurture Intervention (FNI) in the NICU on enhancing early brain activity of preterm infants. This unit‐wide implementation of FNI is referred to as Family Nurture Care (FNC). Methods: This was a single‐center prospective phased effectiveness study conducted in two sequential phases in the NICU (NCT03267043). In Phase I, all mother–infant dyads received the baseline standard care…
Development and validation of the Mother's Socioemotional Support Circle (MSSC): A self-evaluation social support tool to guide social support efforts for preterm mothers in the Nicu
Emotional support from others plays a major role in a mother's ability to connect emotionally with her infant, particularly in the stressful context of preterm birth. Here, we document the development and validation of a novel assessment tool, the Mother's Socioemotional Support Circle (MSSC). The MSSC is a self-report instrument designed to assess the perceived availability and helpfulness of the mother's socioemotional support network. First re…
Effects of Family Nurture Intervention in the Nicu on Theory of Mind Abilities in Children Born Very Preterm: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Preterm infants are at risk for socioemotional deficits, neurodevelopmental disorders, and potentially theory of mind (ToM) deficits. Preterm infants enrolled in a randomized controlled trial in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) received Standard Care (SC) or Family Nurture Intervention (FNI). Children (N = 72; median age 61.8 ± 2.6 months; FNI: 35 (55%), SC:2 9 (45%)) completed a ToM task, of whom 64 (54% male; born to White (43.8%), Black…
Family nurture intervention for preterm infants facilitates positive mother–infant face-to-face engagement at 4 months
Although preterm infants are at risk for social deficits, interventions to improve mother-infant interaction in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are not part of standard care (SC). Study participants were a subset from a randomized controlled trial of a new intervention for premature infants, the Family Nurture Intervention (FNI), designed to help mothers and infants establish an emotional connection. At infants' 4 months corrected age, mo…
Aerobic Exercise and Strength Training Effects on Cardiovascular Sympathetic Function in Healthy Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial
OBJECTIVE: Exercise has widely documented cardioprotective effects, but the mechanisms underlying these effects are not entirely known. Previously, we demonstrated that aerobic but not strength training lowered resting heart rate and increased cardiac vagal regulation, changes that were reversed by sedentary deconditioning. Here, we focus on the sympathetic nervous system and test whether aerobic training lowers levels of cardiovascular sympathet…
Impact of Aerobic Training on Cardiovascular Reactivity to and Recovery From Challenge
OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that aerobic, but not strength, training would lead to attenuated reactivity to and more rapid recovery from cognitive and orthostatic challenge and that deconditioning would reverse this effect. METHODS: We conducted a randomized controlled trial contrasting the effects of aerobic versus strength training on heart rate, four indices of RR interval variability, and blood pressure reactivity to and recovery from p…
Cardiac Autonomic Control and Treatment of Hostility: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Objective: To test whether reduction in hostility increases autonomic regulation of the heart. Methods: In this randomized controlled trial, participants were 158 healthy adults, aged 20 years to 45 years, who were 1 standard deviation (SD) above national norms on the Cook-Medley Hostility and the Spielberger Trait Anger Indices. Participants also were interviewed, using the Interpersonal Hostility Assessment Technique (IHAT). They were randomly …
The Effect of Aerobic Training and Cardiac Autonomic Regulation in Young Adults
Objectives. We tested the effect of aerobic exercise on autonomic regulation of the heart in healthy young adults. Methods. Healthy, sedentary young adults (n = 149; age = 30.4 ± 7.53 years) were randomized to receive 12 weeks of either aerobic conditioning or strength training. Primary outcomes were heart rate and RR interval variability (RRV) measured before and after training and after 4 weeks of sedentary deconditioning. RRV, a noninvasive in…
Traumatized mothers can change their minds about their toddlers: Understanding how a novel use of videofeedback supports positive change of maternal attributions
This study explored the use of a brief experimental intervention that integrates principles of infant-parent psychotherapy, videofeedback, controlled exposure to child distress in the context of parental posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and stimulation of parental reflective functioning (RF). The Clinician Assisted Videofeedback Exposure Session (CAVES) was applied to 32 interpersonal violence-exposed mothers of very young children (8-50 mon…
Hostility, Gender, and Cardiac Autonomic Control
OBJECTIVE: Although considerable evidence implicates hostility in the development of coronary artery disease (CAD), the pathogenic mechanisms remain poorly understood. We have developed a psychophysiological model that holds that altered autonomic nervous system function links psychological traits with CAD outcomes. In laboratory studies, stressors reduce high-frequency (HF) heart period variability, an index of cardiac vagal modulation. With amb…
Cardiac Autonomic Control Buffers Blood Pressure Variability Responses to Challenge: A Psychophysiologic Model of Coronary Artery Disease
This article presents a model that identifies effects of blood pressure variability (BPV) as a possible mechanism by which psychological/psychiatric factors and health behaviors confer increased risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) and acute coronary syndromes. Recent research in vascular biology and dynamics of coronary artery blood flow suggests that BPV may have pathogenic effects on the coronary endothelium, plaque formation, and plaque stab…
A Preliminary Study of the Effects of Breast-Feeding on Parasympathetic Cardiac Control
Mezzacappa, E. S.; Galvan, A.; Castro, M. M.; Myers, M. M.; Sloan, R. P. Author Information
Fetal Heart Rate Is Influenced by Maternal Stress and Anxiety
s of Papers for 1999 Annual Meeting: Paper Session: Psychobiological Processes During Pregnancy and the Post-Partum Period
Enduring Effects of Infant Feeding Experiences on Adult Blood Pressure
OBJECTIVE: Vulnerability to psychosomatic diseases is influenced by events early in life. The objective of this article is to discuss animal research that demonstrates relationships between feeding experiences and growth in infancy and risk of hypertension in adulthood. METHOD: Subjects were spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and their normotensive Wistar Kyoto progenitors. Initial experiments involved observations of the behaviors of rat moth…
Animal Models in Psychosomatic Research
Traumatized mothers can change their minds about their toddlers: Understanding how a novel use of videofeedback supports positive change of maternal attributions
This study explored the use of a brief experimental intervention that integrates principles of infant-parent psychotherapy, videofeedback, controlled exposure to child distress in the context of parental posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and stimulation of parental reflective functioning (RF). The Clinician Assisted Videofeedback Exposure Session (CAVES) was applied to 32 interpersonal violence-exposed mothers of very young children (8-50 mon…
Family nurture intervention for preterm infants facilitates positive mother–infant face-to-face engagement at 4 months
Although preterm infants are at risk for social deficits, interventions to improve mother-infant interaction in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are not part of standard care (SC). Study participants were a subset from a randomized controlled trial of a new intervention for premature infants, the Family Nurture Intervention (FNI), designed to help mothers and infants establish an emotional connection. At infants' 4 months corrected age, mo…
The Effect of Aerobic Training and Cardiac Autonomic Regulation in Young Adults
Objectives. We tested the effect of aerobic exercise on autonomic regulation of the heart in healthy young adults. Methods. Healthy, sedentary young adults (n = 149; age = 30.4 ± 7.53 years) were randomized to receive 12 weeks of either aerobic conditioning or strength training. Primary outcomes were heart rate and RR interval variability (RRV) measured before and after training and after 4 weeks of sedentary deconditioning. RRV, a noninvasive in…
Enduring Effects of Infant Feeding Experiences on Adult Blood Pressure
OBJECTIVE: Vulnerability to psychosomatic diseases is influenced by events early in life. The objective of this article is to discuss animal research that demonstrates relationships between feeding experiences and growth in infancy and risk of hypertension in adulthood. METHOD: Subjects were spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and their normotensive Wistar Kyoto progenitors. Initial experiments involved observations of the behaviors of rat moth…
Animal Models in Psychosomatic Research
Cardiac Autonomic Control Buffers Blood Pressure Variability Responses to Challenge: A Psychophysiologic Model of Coronary Artery Disease
This article presents a model that identifies effects of blood pressure variability (BPV) as a possible mechanism by which psychological/psychiatric factors and health behaviors confer increased risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) and acute coronary syndromes. Recent research in vascular biology and dynamics of coronary artery blood flow suggests that BPV may have pathogenic effects on the coronary endothelium, plaque formation, and plaque stab…
A Preliminary Study of the Effects of Breast-Feeding on Parasympathetic Cardiac Control
Mezzacappa, E. S.; Galvan, A.; Castro, M. M.; Myers, M. M.; Sloan, R. P. Author Information
Fetal Heart Rate Is Influenced by Maternal Stress and Anxiety
s of Papers for 1999 Annual Meeting: Paper Session: Psychobiological Processes During Pregnancy and the Post-Partum Period
Hostility, Gender, and Cardiac Autonomic Control
OBJECTIVE: Although considerable evidence implicates hostility in the development of coronary artery disease (CAD), the pathogenic mechanisms remain poorly understood. We have developed a psychophysiological model that holds that altered autonomic nervous system function links psychological traits with CAD outcomes. In laboratory studies, stressors reduce high-frequency (HF) heart period variability, an index of cardiac vagal modulation. With amb…
Traumatized mothers can change their minds about their toddlers: Understanding how a novel use of videofeedback supports positive change of maternal attributions
This study explored the use of a brief experimental intervention that integrates principles of infant-parent psychotherapy, videofeedback, controlled exposure to child distress in the context of parental posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and stimulation of parental reflective functioning (RF). The Clinician Assisted Videofeedback Exposure Session (CAVES) was applied to 32 interpersonal violence-exposed mothers of very young children (8-50 mon…
The Effect of Aerobic Training and Cardiac Autonomic Regulation in Young Adults
Objectives. We tested the effect of aerobic exercise on autonomic regulation of the heart in healthy young adults. Methods. Healthy, sedentary young adults (n = 149; age = 30.4 ± 7.53 years) were randomized to receive 12 weeks of either aerobic conditioning or strength training. Primary outcomes were heart rate and RR interval variability (RRV) measured before and after training and after 4 weeks of sedentary deconditioning. RRV, a noninvasive in…
Cardiac Autonomic Control and Treatment of Hostility: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Objective: To test whether reduction in hostility increases autonomic regulation of the heart. Methods: In this randomized controlled trial, participants were 158 healthy adults, aged 20 years to 45 years, who were 1 standard deviation (SD) above national norms on the Cook-Medley Hostility and the Spielberger Trait Anger Indices. Participants also were interviewed, using the Interpersonal Hostility Assessment Technique (IHAT). They were randomly …
Impact of Aerobic Training on Cardiovascular Reactivity to and Recovery From Challenge
OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that aerobic, but not strength, training would lead to attenuated reactivity to and more rapid recovery from cognitive and orthostatic challenge and that deconditioning would reverse this effect. METHODS: We conducted a randomized controlled trial contrasting the effects of aerobic versus strength training on heart rate, four indices of RR interval variability, and blood pressure reactivity to and recovery from p…
Aerobic Exercise and Strength Training Effects on Cardiovascular Sympathetic Function in Healthy Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial
OBJECTIVE: Exercise has widely documented cardioprotective effects, but the mechanisms underlying these effects are not entirely known. Previously, we demonstrated that aerobic but not strength training lowered resting heart rate and increased cardiac vagal regulation, changes that were reversed by sedentary deconditioning. Here, we focus on the sympathetic nervous system and test whether aerobic training lowers levels of cardiovascular sympathet…
Family nurture intervention for preterm infants facilitates positive mother–infant face-to-face engagement at 4 months
Although preterm infants are at risk for social deficits, interventions to improve mother-infant interaction in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are not part of standard care (SC). Study participants were a subset from a randomized controlled trial of a new intervention for premature infants, the Family Nurture Intervention (FNI), designed to help mothers and infants establish an emotional connection. At infants' 4 months corrected age, mo…
Effects of Family Nurture Intervention in the Nicu on Theory of Mind Abilities in Children Born Very Preterm: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Preterm infants are at risk for socioemotional deficits, neurodevelopmental disorders, and potentially theory of mind (ToM) deficits. Preterm infants enrolled in a randomized controlled trial in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) received Standard Care (SC) or Family Nurture Intervention (FNI). Children (N = 72; median age 61.8 ± 2.6 months; FNI: 35 (55%), SC:2 9 (45%)) completed a ToM task, of whom 64 (54% male; born to White (43.8%), Black…
Effectiveness Trial of Family Nurture Intervention as a Standard of Care in the Nicu: Enhanced Brain Activity in Preterm Infants
Objective: This study sought to evaluate the effectiveness of Family Nurture Intervention (FNI) in the NICU on enhancing early brain activity of preterm infants. This unit‐wide implementation of FNI is referred to as Family Nurture Care (FNC). Methods: This was a single‐center prospective phased effectiveness study conducted in two sequential phases in the NICU (NCT03267043). In Phase I, all mother–infant dyads received the baseline standard care…
Development and validation of the Mother's Socioemotional Support Circle (MSSC): A self-evaluation social support tool to guide social support efforts for preterm mothers in the Nicu
Emotional support from others plays a major role in a mother's ability to connect emotionally with her infant, particularly in the stressful context of preterm birth. Here, we document the development and validation of a novel assessment tool, the Mother's Socioemotional Support Circle (MSSC). The MSSC is a self-report instrument designed to assess the perceived availability and helpfulness of the mother's socioemotional support network. First re…
Psychology (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Internal Medicine (10 works) · Internal Medicine (9 works) · Blood pressure (7 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control (7 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Cardiology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works)