Julian F. Thayer
· Distinguished Professor of PsychologyUniversity of California, Irvine · Psychology
Active 1930–2026
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About
Julian F. Thayer is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine. He holds a Ph.D. from New York University. His research focuses on health psychology, psychopathology, health disparities, heart rate variability, emotions, stress, and neuroimaging. As a faculty member, he contributes to the understanding of the physiological and psychological mechanisms underlying health and emotional well-being.
Research topics
- Psychology
- Medicine
- Neuroscience
- Developmental psychology
- Biology
- Clinical psychology
- Obstetrics
- Psychotherapist
- Internal medicine
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Selected publications
Stress and Health: A Review of Psychobiological Processes
Annual Review of Psychology · 2020 · 895 citations
) evidence of the clinical relevance of stress, exemplified through the risk of infectious diseases. The studies reviewed in this article confirm that stress has an impact on multiple biological systems. Future work ought to consider further the importance of early-life adversity and continue to explore how different biological systems interact in the context of stress and health processes.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · 2021 · 326 citations
Given its non-invasive nature, there is increasing interest in the use of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) across basic, translational and clinical research. Contemporaneously, tVNS can be achieved by stimulating either the auricular branch or the cervical bundle of the vagus nerve, referred to as transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation(VNS) and transcutaneous cervical VNS, respectively. In order to advance the field in a systematic manner, studies using these technologies…
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · 2020 · 143 citations
Psychophysiology · 2020 · 50 citations
Understanding the association between autonomic nervous system [ANS] function and brain morphology across the lifespan provides important insights into neurovisceral mechanisms underlying health and disease. Resting-state ANS activity, indexed by measures of heart rate [HR] and its variability [HRV] has been associated with brain morphology, particularly cortical thickness [CT]. While findings have been mixed regarding the anatomical distribution and direction of the associations, these inconsis…
Emotion Regulation, Parasympathetic Function, and Psychological Well-Being
Frontiers in Psychology · 2022 · 30 citations
The negative emotions generated following stressful life events can increase one's risk of depressive symptoms and promote higher levels of perceived stress. The process model of emotion regulation can help distinguish between adaptive and maladaptive emotion regulation strategies to determine who may be at the greatest risk of worse psychological health across the lifespan. Heart rate variability (HRV) may affect these relationships as it indexes aspects of self-regulation, including emotion an…
Frequent coauthors
- 1717 shared
Yori Gidron
University of Haifa
- 811 shared
Linda C. Baumann
University of Cologne
- 797 shared
William Whang
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- 789 shared
Alyssa Karel
- 785 shared
Siqin Ye
- 764 shared
J. Rick Turner
- 733 shared
Kimberly M. Henderson
Mayo Clinic
- 733 shared
Susan A. Everson‐Rose
University of Minnesota
Education
- 1996
Ph.D., Environmental Science and Policy
University of California, Irvine
- 1993
M.S., Environmental Science and Policy
University of California, Irvine
- 1990
B.A., Environmental Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
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