title: Key 2010 publications in behavioral medicine.
abstract: Previous research has demonstrated an association between depression and incident coronary heart disease (CHD); in 2010, well-controlled studies and meta-analyses went beyond depression to include anxiety, anger expression, and negative affect as predictors of incident CHD. Emerging research suggests that positive emotions and resilience (including the ability to self-regulate) offer protection against CHD. New research is elucidating the pathophysiology to explain the effects of emotion and resilience on disease risk; for example, recent work has begun to consider how the relaxation response promotes resilience and found that it induces genomic changes that counter oxidative stress and associated cellular damage.
authors.affiliation: Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Kresge Building, Room 714, Boston, MA 02115, USA. lkubzans@hsph.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Laura D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Kubzansky
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000450:Aldosterone; D001524:Behavioral Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000639:trends*; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D011643:Publishing / Q000639:trends; D012307:Risk Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications
chemical_list: D000450:Aldosterone