Richard J Davidson
University of Wisconsin-Madison
H-index: 198
North America-United States
Description
Richard J Davidson, With an exceptional h-index of 198 and a recent h-index of 106 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializes in the field of Affective Neuroscience.
His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:
Brain imaging studies of emotional well-being: a scoping review
Contemplative science comes of age: Looking backward and forward 20 years after Baer (2003).
ENIGMA-Meditation: Worldwide consortium for neuroscientific investigations of meditation practices
Mindfulness training enhances students’ executive functioning and social emotional skills
How often should I meditate? A randomized trial examining the role of meditation frequency when total amount of meditation is held constant.
Is informal practice associated with outcomes in loving-kindness and compassion training? Evidence from pre-post and daily diary assessments
Resting state functional connectivity changes following mindfulness-based stress reduction predict improvements in disease control for patients with asthma
Examining the association between posttraumatic stress disorder and disruptions in cortical networks identified using data-driven methods
Professor Information
University | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Position | ___ |
Citations(all) | 168726 |
Citations(since 2020) | 48389 |
Cited By | 141396 |
hIndex(all) | 198 |
hIndex(since 2020) | 106 |
i10Index(all) | 627 |
i10Index(since 2020) | 477 |
University Profile Page | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Research & Interests List
Affective Neuroscience
Top articles of Richard J Davidson
Brain imaging studies of emotional well-being: a scoping review
This scoping review provides an overview of previous empirical studies that used brain imaging techniques to investigate the neural correlates of emotional well-being (EWB). We compiled evidence on this topic into one accessible and usable document as a foundation for future research into the relationship between EWB and the brain. PRISMA 2020 guidelines were followed. We located relevant articles by searching five electronic databases with 95 studies meeting our inclusion criteria. We explored EWB measures, brain imaging modalities, research designs, populations studied, and approaches that are currently in use to characterize and understand EWB across the literature. Of the key concepts related to EWB, the vast majority of studies investigated positive affect and life satisfaction, followed by sense of meaning, goal pursuit, and quality of life. The majority of studies used functional MRI, followed by EEG and event-related potential-based EEG to study the neural basis of EWB (predominantly experienced affect, affective perception, reward, and emotion regulation). It is notable that positive affect and life satisfaction have been studied significantly more often than the other three aspects of EWB (i.e., sense of meaning, goal pursuit, and quality of life). Our findings suggest that future studies should investigate EWB in more diverse samples, especially in children, individuals with clinical disorders, and individuals from various geographic locations. Future directions and theoretical implications are discussed, including the need for more longitudinal studies with ecologically valid measures that incorporate multi-level approaches allowing …
Authors
Caroline G Richter,Celine Mylx Li,Adam Turnbull,Stephanie L Haft,Deborah Schneider,Jie Luo,Denise Pinheiro Lima,Feng Vankee Lin,Richard J Davidson,Fumiko Hoeft
Published Date
2024/1/5
Contemplative science comes of age: Looking backward and forward 20 years after Baer (2003).
A lot has happened in the 20 years since Baer (2003) published the first meta-analysis of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) in Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. The year 2003 was a time before the iPhone, before Facebook, long before the COVID-19 pandemic, and certainly before advances in artificial intelligence brought algorithm-delivered content to our digital devices and large language models could mimic human interaction disturbingly well. Yet, Baer’s meta-analysis examined the effects of MBIs on the same clinical challenges that plague us today: depression, anxiety, stress, and pain. In 2003, self-compassion was only just emerging as a term in the scientific lexicon and experimental work studying interventions based on loving-kindness and compassion meditation (LKCM) was still almost a decade away. Now that the LKCM literature has grown large enough to allow large-scale meta …
Authors
Simon B Goldberg,Richard J Davidson
Journal
Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice
Published Date
2024/3
ENIGMA-Meditation: Worldwide consortium for neuroscientific investigations of meditation practices
Meditation is a family of ancient and contemporary contemplative mind-body practices that can modulate psychological processes, awareness, and mental states. Over the last 40 years, clinical science has manualised meditation practices and designed various meditation interventions (MIs), that have shown therapeutic efficacy for disorders including depression, pain, addiction, and anxiety. Over the past decade, neuroimaging has examined the neuroscientific basis of meditation practices, effects, states, and outcomes for clinical and non-clinical populations. However, the generalizability and replicability of current neuroscientific models of meditation are yet to be established, as they are largely based on small datasets entrenched with heterogeneity along several domains of meditation (eg, practice types, meditation experience, clinical disorder targeted), experimental design, and neuroimaging methods (eg, preprocessing, analysis, task-based, resting-state, structural MRI). These limitations have precluded a nuanced and rigorous neuroscientific phenotyping of meditation practices and their potential benefits. Here, we present ENIGMA-Meditation, the first worldwide collaborative consortium for neuroscientific investigations of meditation practices. ENIGMA-Meditation will enable systematic meta-and mega-analyses of globally distributed neuroimaging datasets of meditation using shared, standardized neuroimaging methods and tools to improve statistical power and generalizability. Through this powerful collaborative framework, existing neuroscientific accounts of meditation practices can be extended to generate novel and rigorous …
Authors
Saampras Ganesan,Aki Tsuchiyagaito,Greg Siegle,LT Eyler,IN Treves,A Lutz,G Pagnoni,PC Dagnino,A Escrichs,LF Saccaro,M Sacchet,V Tripathi,I Batta,R Prakash,KW Brown,N Reggente,SS Khalsa,TJ McDermott,S Valk,Y Tang,N Fani,G Deco,E Garland,VD Calhoun,S Davanger,C Piguet,CC Bauer,FA Barrios,G Chételat,N Kirlic,DM Fresco,H Rahrig,A Torske,Y Kang,J Cain,NAS Farb,R Garg,MD Turner,S Fialoke,DM Hafeman,JM Dutcher,JA Brewer,JD Creswell,TS Braver,F Zeidan,DR Vago,S Lazar,R Davidson,CR Ching,N Jahanshad,SI Thomopoulos,P Thompson,A Zalesky,J Turner,AP King
Published Date
2024/4/8
Mindfulness training enhances students’ executive functioning and social emotional skills
More research is needed to understand the effects of school-based mindfulness programs in the years prior to adolescence, which represent a critical juncture and transitional period of development. The present study investigated mindfulness with elementary school students using random assignment and objective measures. The sample included 292 fifth graders from 21 classrooms randomly assigned to an 8-week mindfulness training or wait-list control group. Students were assessed at pre- and post-intervention on behavioral measures of executive functioning and teacher-rated social emotional competence, along with end of year social-emotional learning report card grades. Analyses using hierarchal linear modeling found that students in the intervention group demonstrated significant gains on a computerized task of cognitive flexibility, and end of year social-emotional learning grades controlling for prior …
Authors
Lisa Flook,Matthew J Hirshberg,Lori Gustafson,Chad McGehee,Cara Knoeppel,Lawrence Y Tello,Daniel M Bolt,Richard J Davidson
Journal
Applied Developmental Science
Published Date
2024/1/2
How often should I meditate? A randomized trial examining the role of meditation frequency when total amount of meditation is held constant.
Meditation apps are the most commonly used mental health apps. However, the optimal dosing of app-delivered meditation practice has not been established. We examined whether the distribution of meditation practices across a day impacted outcomes in a distressed population. We investigated the effects of meditation practice frequency in a 2-week compassion-based meditation intervention delivered via the Healthy Minds Program app. Undergraduates with clinically elevated depression and/or anxiety (N= 351) were randomized to a massed (one 20-min meditation per day) or distributed condition (two 10-min meditations per day). Psychological distress (primary outcome; composite of depression and anxiety), experiential avoidance, fear of missing out, loneliness, and self-compassion were assessed pre-and post-intervention. Psychological distress, loneliness, and informal meditation practice were also …
Authors
Kevin M Riordan,Otto Simonsson,Corrina Frye,Nathan J Vack,Jane Sachs,Dan Fitch,Robin I Goldman,Evelyn S Chiang,Cortland J Dahl,Richard J Davidson,Simon B Goldberg
Journal
Journal of Counseling Psychology
Published Date
2024/3
Is informal practice associated with outcomes in loving-kindness and compassion training? Evidence from pre-post and daily diary assessments
We investigated whether informal meditation practice (i.e., self-reported application of meditative techniques outside a period of formal meditation) was associated with outcomes in smartphone-based loving-kindness and compassion training. Meditation-naïve participants (n = 351) with clinically elevated symptoms completed measures of psychological distress, loneliness, empathy, and prosociality at baseline and following a two-week intervention. Informal practice, psychological distress, and loneliness were also assessed daily. Steeper increases in informal practice had small associations with pre-post improvements in distress (r = −.18, p = .008) and loneliness (r = −.19, p = .009) but not empathy or prosociality. Using a currently recommended approach for establishing cross-lagged effects in longitudinal data (latent curve model with structured residuals), higher current-day informal practice was …
Authors
Qiang Xie,Kevin M Riordan,Scott A Baldwin,Otto Simonsson,Matthew J Hirshberg,Cortland J Dahl,Inbal Nahum-Shani,Richard J Davidson,Simon B Goldberg
Journal
Behaviour Research and Therapy
Published Date
2024/4/8
Resting state functional connectivity changes following mindfulness-based stress reduction predict improvements in disease control for patients with asthma
BackgroundThe staggering morbidity associated with chronic inflammatory diseases can be reduced by psychological interventions, including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Proposed mechanisms for MBSR’s beneficial effects include changes in salience network function. Salience network perturbations are also associated with chronic inflammation, including airway inflammation in asthma, a chronic inflammatory disease affecting approximately 10% of the population. However, no studies have examined whether MBSR-related improvements in disease control are related to changes in salience network function.MethodsAdults with asthma were randomized to 8 weeks of MBSR or a waitlist control group. Resting state functional connectivity was measured using fMRI before randomization, immediately post-intervention, and 4 months post-intervention. Using key salience network regions as seeds …
Authors
Claire Laubacher,Tammi RA Kral,Ted Imhoff-Smith,Danika R Klaus,Robin I Goldman,Jane Sachs,Richard J Davidson,William W Busse,Melissa A Rosenkranz
Journal
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
Published Date
2024/1/1
Examining the association between posttraumatic stress disorder and disruptions in cortical networks identified using data-driven methods
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with lower cortical thickness (CT) in prefrontal, cingulate, and insular cortices in diverse trauma-affected samples. However, some studies have failed to detect differences between PTSD patients and healthy controls or reported that PTSD is associated with greater CT. Using data-driven dimensionality reduction, we sought to conduct a well-powered study to identify vulnerable networks without regard to neuroanatomic boundaries. Moreover, this approach enabled us to avoid the excessive burden of multiple comparison correction that plagues vertex-wise methods. We derived structural covariance networks (SCNs) by applying non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) to CT data from 961 PTSD patients and 1124 trauma-exposed controls without PTSD. We used regression analyses to investigate associations between CT within SCNs and PTSD diagnosis (with …
Authors
Jin Yang,Ashley A Huggins,Delin Sun,C Lexi Baird,Courtney C Haswell,Jessie L Frijling,Miranda Olff,Mirjam van Zuiden,Saskia BJ Koch,Laura Nawijn,Dick J Veltman,Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez,Xi Zhu,Yuval Neria,Anna R Hudson,Sven C Mueller,Justin T Baker,Lauren AM Lebois,Milissa L Kaufman,Rongfeng Qi,Guang Ming Lu,Pavel Říha,Ivan Rektor,Emily L Dennis,Christopher RK Ching,Sophia I Thomopoulos,Lauren E Salminen,Neda Jahanshad,Paul M Thompson,Dan J Stein,Sheri M Koopowitz,Jonathan C Ipser,Soraya Seedat,Stefan du Plessis,Leigh L van den Heuvel,Li Wang,Ye Zhu,Gen Li,Anika Sierk,Antje Manthey,Henrik Walter,Judith K Daniels,Christian Schmahl,Julia I Herzog,Israel Liberzon,Anthony King,Mike Angstadt,Nicholas D Davenport,Scott R Sponheim,Seth G Disner,Thomas Straube,David Hofmann,Daniel W Grupe,Jack B Nitschke,Richard J Davidson,Christine L Larson,Terri A deRoon-Cassini,Jennifer U Blackford,Bunmi O Olatunji,Evan M Gordon,Geoffrey May,Steven M Nelson,Chadi G Abdallah,Ifat Levy,Ilan Harpaz-Rotem,John H Krystal,Rajendra A Morey,Aristeidis Sotiras
Journal
Neuropsychopharmacology
Published Date
2024/2
Professor FAQs
What is Richard J Davidson's h-index at University of Wisconsin-Madison?
The h-index of Richard J Davidson has been 106 since 2020 and 198 in total.
What are Richard J Davidson's top articles?
The articles with the titles of
Brain imaging studies of emotional well-being: a scoping review
Contemplative science comes of age: Looking backward and forward 20 years after Baer (2003).
ENIGMA-Meditation: Worldwide consortium for neuroscientific investigations of meditation practices
Mindfulness training enhances students’ executive functioning and social emotional skills
How often should I meditate? A randomized trial examining the role of meditation frequency when total amount of meditation is held constant.
Is informal practice associated with outcomes in loving-kindness and compassion training? Evidence from pre-post and daily diary assessments
Resting state functional connectivity changes following mindfulness-based stress reduction predict improvements in disease control for patients with asthma
Examining the association between posttraumatic stress disorder and disruptions in cortical networks identified using data-driven methods
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are the top articles of Richard J Davidson at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
What are Richard J Davidson's research interests?
The research interests of Richard J Davidson are: Affective Neuroscience
What is Richard J Davidson's total number of citations?
Richard J Davidson has 168,726 citations in total.
What are the co-authors of Richard J Davidson?
The co-authors of Richard J Davidson are Jonathan D. Cohen, Carol D. Ryff, Andrew L Alexander, H H Goldsmith, James Coan, Alexander J. Shackman.