Invited Talk
Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Psychobiological Origins of Cardiovascular Disease
| Chair:
Karen A. Matthews
[Email Presenter]
University of Pittsburgh |
Coronary atherosclerosis and hypertension do not emerge abruptly in mid-life, but are preceded by decades of risk development. The reserve capacity model provides a life-course framework for understanding mind-body mechanisms that connect exposure to low socioeconomic status environments early in life to later cardiovascular risk.
2010 Program Committee
Tyler S. Lorig, Washington and Lee University (Chair); Nalini Ambady, Tufts University; Abigail Baird, Vassar College; Sian Beilock, University of Chicago; Daniel Klein, State University of New York, Stony Brook; Richard Lewis, Pomona College; Kris Preacher, University of Kansas; Deidra Schleicher, Purdue University; Timothy Strauman, Duke University; Tracy Zinn, James Madison University