Evaluation and update of the expert consensus guidelines for the assessment of the cortisol awakening response (CAR)

T Stalder, SJ Lupien, BM Kudielka, EK Adam… - …, 2022 - Elsevier
The cortisol awakening response (CAR) is frequently assessed in psychobiological (stress)
research. Obtaining reliable CAR data, however, requires careful attention to …

Back to basics: The importance of measurement properties in biological psychiatry

DP Moriarity, LB Alloy - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Biological psychiatry is a major funding priority for organizations that fund mental health
research (eg, National Institutes of Health). Despite this, some have argued that the field has …

Moderation effects in personality disorder research.

CE Vize, DAA Baranger, MC Finsaas… - Personality Disorders …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Tests of statistical interactions (or tests of moderation effects) in personality disorder
research are a common way for researchers to examine nuanced hypotheses relevant to …

Hierarchical inflammatory phenotypes of depression: a novel approach across five independent samples and 27,730 adults

DP Moriarity, GM Slavich, LB Alloy, TM Olino - Biological psychiatry, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Although characterizing associations between inflammation and depression
may prove critical for informing theory, research, and treatment decisions, extant research …

Exploring reliability heterogeneity with multiverse analyses: Data processing decisions unpredictably influence measurement reliability

S Parsons - Meta-Psychology, 2022 - conferences.lnu.se
Analytic flexibility is known to influence the results of statistical tests, eg effect sizes and p-
values. Yet, the degree to which flexibility in data processing decisions influences …

Reliability of three versus five saliva sampling times for assessing the cortisol awakening response

A Nasser, B Ozenne, ES Høgsted, PS Jensen… - …, 2023 - Elsevier
The cortisol awakening response (CAR) describes the sharp increase in cortisol secretion
within 60 min after awakening. A summary of the CAR, the area under the cortisol curve …

Psychological resilience and diurnal salivary cortisol in young adulthood

K Nishimi, KC Koenen, BA Coull, SC Segerstrom… - …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Adversity exposure and the negative psychological responses that often result
have been linked with poor physical health outcomes and deteriorative physiological …

On the pursuit of reproducibility: the importance of large sample sizes in psychoimmunology

M Rengasamy, D Moriarity, R Price - Translational Psychiatry, 2025 - nature.com
Peripheral inflammatory markers (PIMs), such as C-reactive protein (CRP) or white blood
cell count (WBC), have been associated with depression severity in meta-analyses and …

[HTML][HTML] A primer on common analytic concerns in psychoneuroimmunology: Alternatives and paths forward

DP Moriarity - Brain, behavior, and immunity, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Psychoneuroimmunology has been an increasingly popular area of research in recent
years, as evidenced by the number of submissions to Brain, Behavior, and Immunity (the …

[HTML][HTML] A physiometric investigation of inflammatory composites: Comparison of “a priori” aggregates, empirically-identified factors, and individual proteins

DP Moriarity, LM Ellman, CL Coe, TM Olino… - Brain, Behavior, & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Most research testing the association between inflammation and health outcomes (eg, heart
disease, diabetes, depression) has focused on individual proteins; however, some studies …