In the News
Professor Mendes featured in NPR
EHPLab PI, Professor Mendes, discusses the distinctions between adaptive and maladaptive acute stress with NPR.
New Article in PNAS examining how childhood adversity influences somatic symptoms in adulthood.
EHPLab Moves East!
The Emotion, Health, and Psychophysiology Lab will be moving to the Department of Psychology at Yale University this summer. We will be hiring full time research assistants and a lab manager. These are ideal positions for recent BA/BS graduates in psychology or related field who are interested in applying to graduate school. Join me, Dr. Maria Monroy, and Dr. Kimberly J. Martin (@drkimjmartin) as we launch the lab opening this September in New Haven.
Please click the link for more information about the position: lab manager/research assistant job description.
Interested applicants should email their CV to wendy.mendes@ucsf.edu
EHPLab (led by Post-doc David Newman) published a paper in Emotion showing high levels of gratitude and optimism are both related to lower blood pressure and better health behaviors.
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Dr. Michael Trujillo receives “Young Investigator Colloquium Scholar” award from American Psychosomatic Society
"This selective program is open to young investigators who desire a research-focused experience, and will take place in Long Beach, CA, in conjunction with the 2020 APS Annual Meeting. Colloquium scholars will receive complimentary meeting registration for two consecutive years and a travel stipend.
The purpose of this half-day Colloquium is to bring together the expertise of senior mentors paired with postgraduate “rising star” trainees (i.e., physician fellows, residents, and postdoctoral fellows). The selected trainees will be paired with a mentor that share similar interests. The goal of the Colloquium is to contribute to the academic success of each participant."
Check out this article on wearables and health research in Nature Medicine.
“Samsung partially funds a blood-pressure study called My BP Lab at the University of California San Francisco. . . . Wendy Berry Mendes, a psychiatrist leading the study, estimates that 100,000 people have participated since it launched in March 2018.”
The Emotion, Health, and Psychophysiology Lab announces collaboration with Samsung and Sage Bionetworks on a new app based study that will monitor stress, emotion, and blood pressure levels in daily lives. The study harnesses new technology—an optic sensor in Samsung’s Galaxy S9—and an app “My BP Lab” developed by Sage Bionetworks.
To learn more about our study, visit MyBPLab.com or download the app here:
Photos from the Samsung Unpack Event; Press Release February 25, 2018
Kareena, Aric, and Wendy are interviewed about an exciting new project that measures stress and physiologic responses in people’s daily lives. January 18, 2018