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Early life stress, air pollution, inflammation, and disease: An integrative review and immunologic model of social-environmental adversity and lifespan health by Olvera Alvarez, Hector A., Kubzansky, Laura D., Campen, Matthew J., Slavich, George M.

“…•A neuroimmunologic link between stress, inflammation, air pollution, was identified.•A model of social-environmental adversity and lifespan health was…”
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The value of using seasonality and meteorological variables to model intra-urban PM2.5 variation by Olvera Alvarez, Hector A., Myers, Orrin B., Weigel, Margaret, Armijos, Rodrigo X.

“…A yearlong air monitoring campaign was conducted to assess the impact of local temperature, relative humidity, and wind speed on the temporal and spatial…”
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Susceptibility to stress and nature exposure: Unveiling differential susceptibility to physical environments; a randomized controlled trial by Eisen, Aaron M, Bratman, Gregory N, Olvera-Alvarez, Hector A

“…Emerging epidemiological evidence indicates nature exposure could be associated with greater health benefits among groups in lower versus higher socioeconomic…”
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Stress and Health in Nursing Students: The Nurse Engagement and Wellness Study by Olvera Alvarez, Hector A, Provencio-Vasquez, Elias, Slavich, George M, Laurent, Jose Guillermo Cedeño, Browning, Matthew, McKee-Lopez, Gloria, Robbins, Leslie, Spengler, John D

“…BACKGROUNDEvidence suggests that behavioral, social, and environmental factors may modify the effects of life stress on health and performance of new nurses as…”
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A Bio-Psycho-Social Approach to Understanding Optimism and Pessimism in Response to Stress by Paat, Yok-Fong, Hope, Trina L, Ferreira-Pinto, João B, Olvera Alvarez, Hector

“…Stress is widely known to have debilitating effects on physical health and mental wellbeing, particularly on one's coping styles, personality traits, and…”
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Green, Brown, and Gray: Associations between Different Measurements of Land Patterns and Depression among Nursing Students in El Paso, Texas by Nazif-Munoz, José Ignacio, Cedeno Laurent, José Guillermo, Browning, Matthew, Spengler, John, Olvera Álvarez, Héctor A

“…While greenness has been associated with lower depression, the generalizability of this association in arid landscapes remains undetermined. We assessed the…”
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An Integrated Socio-Environmental Model of Health and Well-Being: a Conceptual Framework Exploring the Joint Contribution of Environmental and Social Exposures to Health and Disease Over the Life Span by Olvera Alvarez, Hector A., Appleton, Allison A., Fuller, Christina H., Belcourt, Annie, Kubzansky, Laura D.

“…Purpose of the review Environmental and social determinants of health often co-occur, particularly among socially disadvantaged populations, yet because they…”
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The affective benefits of nature exposure by Bratman, Gregory N., Olvera‐Alvarez, Hector A., Gross, James J.

“…Mounting evidence demonstrates that nature exposure can have affective benefits. These include behavioral and psychophysiological responses consistent with (a)…”
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Psychological impacts from COVID-19 among university students: Risk factors across seven states in the United States by Browning, Matthew H E M, Larson, Lincoln R, Sharaievska, Iryna, Rigolon, Alessandro, McAnirlin, Olivia, Mullenbach, Lauren, Cloutier, Scott, Vu, Tue M, Thomsen, Jennifer, Reigner, Nathan, Metcalf, Elizabeth Covelli, D'Antonio, Ashley, Helbich, Marco, Bratman, Gregory N, Alvarez, Hector Olvera

“…University students are increasingly recognized as a vulnerable population, suffering from higher levels of anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and…”
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Neural and peripheral markers of reward during positive social evaluation are associated with less clinician-rated depression symptom severity in adolescence by Gray, Zach J., Shields, Grant S., Sichko, Stassja, Bui, Theresa Q., Vinograd, Meghan, Olvera-Alvarez, Hector A., Slavich, George M.

“…Although blunted sensitivity to reward is thought to play a key role in promoting risk for depression, most research on this topic has utilized monetary reward…”
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Psychobiology of Stress and Adolescent Depression (PSY SAD) Study: Protocol overview for an fMRI-based multi-method investigation by Sichko, Stassja, Bui, Theresa Q., Vinograd, Meghan, Shields, Grant S., Saha, Krishanu, Devkota, Suzanne, Olvera-Alvarez, Hector A., Carroll, Judith E., Cole, Steven W., Irwin, Michael R., Slavich, George M.

“…Depression is a common, often recurrent disorder that causes substantial disease burden worldwide, and this is especially true for women following the pubertal…”
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Long-Term Impact of Childhood Adversity on the Gut Microbiome of Nursing Students by Kazemian, Negin, Zhou, Tony, Chalasani, Naveen, Narayan, Apurva, Cedeño Laurent, Jose Guillermo, Olvera Alvarez, Hector A, Pakpour, Sepideh

“…Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) encompass negative, stressful, and potentially traumatic events during childhood, impacting physical and mental health…”
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Stress and Health in Nursing Students: The Nurse Engagement and Wellness Study by Olvera Alvarez, Hector A, Provencio-Vasquez, Elias, Slavich, George M, Laurent, Jose Guillermo Cedeño, Browning, Matthew, McKee-Lopez, Gloria, Robbins, Leslie, Spengler, John D

“…Evidence suggests that behavioral, social, and environmental factors may modify the effects of life stress on health and performance of new nurses as they…”
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Dissertation Topics in Nursing by Dieckmann, Nathan F., Stoyles, Sydnee A., Aebischer, Jonathan H., Olvera-Alvarez, Hector A.

“…Few quantitative studies have documented the types of research topics most commonly employed by nursing PhD students and whether they differ by program…”
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Associations of Residential Brownness and Greenness with Fasting Glucose in Young Healthy Adults Living in the Desert by Olvera-Alvarez, Hector A, Browning, Matthew H E M, Neophytou, Andreas M, Bratman, Gregory N

“…Evolutionary psychology theories propose that contact with green, natural environments may benefit physical health, but little comparable evidence exists for…”
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Correction: Psychological impacts from COVID-19 among university students: Risk factors across seven states in the United States by Browning, Matthew H. E. M, Larson, Lincoln R, Sharaievska, Iryna, Rigolon, Alessandro, McAnirlin, Olivia, Mullenbach, Lauren, Cloutier, Scott, Vu, Tue M, Thomsen, Jennifer, Reigner, Nathan, Metcalf, Elizabeth Covelli, D'Antonio, Ashley, Helbich, Marco, Bratman, Gregory N, Alvarez, Hector Olvera

“…Given the dominance of the COVID-19 pandemic in the news, it could have been expected that younger "always-on" students were exposed to greater amounts of…”
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Editorial commentary: Scanning for threats and natural environments giving our reptilian brains a break by Browning, Matthew H.E.M., Alvarez, Hector A. Olvera

“…Some scholars question these mechanisms, citing research that shows that in urban street canyons under specific geometric conditions trees can contribute to…”
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Stress recovery from virtual exposure to a brown (desert) environment versus a green environment by Yin, Jie, Bratman, Gregory N., Browning, Matthew H.E.M., Spengler, John D., Olvera-Alvarez, Hector A.

“…The beneficial association between nature contact and human health is often explained with psycho-evolutionary frameworks such as stress reduction theory and…”
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Dissertation Topics in Nursing by Dieckmann, Nathan F., Stoyles, Sydnee A., Aebischer, Jonathan H., Olvera-Alvarez, Hector A.

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Associations of nature contact with emotional ill-being and well-being: the role of emotion regulation by Bratman, Gregory N., Mehta, Ashish, Olvera-Alvarez, Hector, Spink, Katie Malloy, Levy, Chaja, White, Mathew P., Kubzansky, Laura D., Gross, James J.

“…Nature contact has associations with emotional ill-being and well-being. However, the mechanisms underlying these associations are not fully understood. We…”
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