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Gary Berntson is professor at Ohio
State University with appointments in the departments of
psychology, psychiatry and pediatrics. He is an expert in psychophysiology, neuroscience, biological psychology, and with his
colleague John
Cacioppo, a founding father of social neuroscience.[1] His
research attempts to elucidate the functional organization of brain
mechanisms underlying behavioral and affective processes, with a
special emphasis on social cognition.
Background
Berntson studied biology and psychology at the University of Minnesota, and
was awarded a Ph.D. (psychobiology and life sciences) in 1971. He
then worked as a post-doc fellow with Neal Miller at Rockefeller University in the
department of psychology between 1971-1973. Since 1973, Berntson is
on the faculty at the Ohio State University.
Editorial
duties
- Chief Associate Editor, Physiological Psychology,
1978-1985
- Acting Editor, Physiological Psychology, 1983-1985
- Associate Editor, Psychophysiology, 1994-1998
- Co-Editor, Social Neuroscience Book Series, MIT Press,
2000-present
- Secretary, Society for Psychophysiology, 2006-2009
- Board of Directors, Society for Psychophysiology,
2006-2009
- Associate Editor, Emotion Review, 2007-2009
- Editorial Board, International Journal of Psychophysiology,
2007-
- Editor (with John Cacioppo) of upcoming Handbook of
Neuroscience for the Behavioral Sciences
Research
interests
The broad interest of Berntson's program is in the elucidation
of the functional organization of brain mechanisms underlying behavioral and
affective processes, with a special emphasis on social
neuroscience. The program is guided conceptually by a
recognition of the importance of multiple levels of analyzes in a
meaningful understanding of complex neurobehavioral relations, and
the strategic approach is collaborative and multidisciplinary in
nature.[2] This is
illustrated by current research on anxiety and autonomic control, which ranges
from basic animal studies of central neural and
neuropharmacological mechanisms, to human research that examines
the links between psychological processes and autonomic as well as
immune functions. Central to this program of research is an effort
to understand, at a theoretical level, the organizational
principles that characterize psychobiological relations. Recent
collaborative research includes: a) the role of cognitive and
social factors in autonomic regulation and immune functions, b)
contribution of cortical/cognitive processes to anxiety, and the neural systems that mediate
these relations, c) the impact of autonomic states on higher neural
systems, d) the integrative organization of neurobehavioral,
neuroendocrine, autonomic and immune systems, and e)
psychoneuroimmunology and the social neuroscience of health and
disease.
Selected
books
- Cacioppo, J.T., Tassinary, L.G., & Berntson, G. G. (2007).
Handbook of Psychophysiology. Cambridge University
Press.
- Cacioppo, J.T., Berntson, G.G., & Adolphs, R. (2002).
Foundations in Social Neuroscience. MIT Press.
- Cacioppo, John; Berntson, Gary (2005-01-27). Social
Neuroscience: Key Readings (Key Readings in Social Psychology).
Psychology Press Ltd. ISBN 978-1841690995.
Selected
articles
- Cacioppo, J.T., Berntson, G.G. (2005). "Analysis of the social
brain through the lens of human brain imaging." In Cacioppo, J. T.
& Berntson, G. G. (eds.) Social Neuroscience (pp. 1-17).
New York: Psychology Press.
- Berntson, G.G., Lozano, D.L., & Chen, Y-J. (2005). "Filter
properties of the root mean square successive difference (RMSSD)
statistic in heart rate." Psychophysiology, 42, 246-252.
- Bosch, J.A., Berntson, G.G., Cacioppo, J.T., & Marucha,
P.T. (2005). "Differential mobilization of functionally distinct
Natural Killer subsets during acute psychological stress."
Psychosomatic Medicine, 67, 366-375.
- Hawkley, L.C., Berntson, G.G., Engeland, C.G., Marucha, P.T.,
Masi, C.M., & Cacioppo, J.T. (2005). "Stress, aging, and
resilience: Can accrued wear and tear be slowed?" Canadian
Psychology, 46, 114-125.
- Berntson, G.G., & Cacioppo, J.T. (2005). "Multilevel
analysis: Physiological and biochemical measures." In Eid, M. &
Diener, E. (Eds.), Handbook of multimethod measurement in
psychology. (pp. 157-172). Washington, DC: American
Psychological Association.
- Berntson, G.G. & Cacioppo, J.T. (2006). "Reasoning about
brains." In Cacioppo, J.T., Visser, P.S., & Picket, C.L. (Eds.)
Social neuroscience: People thinking about thinking people. (pp
1–11). Cambrdige, MA: MIT Press.
- Demaree, H.A., Schmeichel, B.J., Robinson, J.L., Pu, J.,
Everhart, D.E., & Berntson, G.G. (2006). "Up- and
down-regulating facial disgust: Affective, vagal, sympathetic, and
respiratory consequences." Biological Psychology, 71, 90-99.
- Cacioppo J.T. & Berntson, G.G. (2006). "A bridge linking
social psychology and the neurosciences." In Lange, P.M.V. (Ed.)
Bridging social psychology. (pp 91–96). Cambridge, Mass: MIT
Press.
- Berntson, G.G., Bechara, A., Damasio, H., Tranel, D., &
Cacioppo, J. T. (2007). "Amygdala contributions to selective
dimensions of emotion." Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 2,
123-129.
- Berntson, G.G., Norman, G.J., Hawkley, L.C. & Cacioppo,
J.T. (2008). "Cardiac Autonomic Balance vs. Cardiac Regulatory
Capacity."Psychophysiology, 45, 643-652.
- Berntson, G.G. & Cacioppo, J.T. (2008). "The functional
neuroarchitecture of evaluative processes." In A. Elliot (Ed.)
Handbook of Approach and Avoidance Motivation. Elliot, A.
(pp. 307-321) New York: Lawrence Erlbaum.
See also
References
- ^
Cacioppo, John; Bernston, Gary (2005-01-27). Social Neuroscience:
Key Readings (Key Readings in Social Psychology). Psychology Press
Ltd. ISBN 978-1841690995.
- ^
Cacioppo, J.T., & Berntson, G.G. (1992). Social psychological
contributions to the decade of the brain: doctrine of multilevel
analysis. American Psychologist, 47, 1019-1028.
External
links
- Gary Berntson Lab [1]
- Ohio State University [2]
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