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Tufts University Arts, Sciences and Engineering
 
Name: Heather L. Urry
Title: Assistant Professor of Psychology
Departmental Affiliation: Psychology Department
Degrees: Ph.D. University of Arizona, 2001; M.A. University of Arizona, 1996; B.S. University of Arizona, 1991
Expertise: Affective neuroscience: Using functional neuroimaging and psychophysiological methods to study emotion and emotion regulation, including their links to bodily health
E-mail: heather.urry@tufts.edu

Other websites: http://www.tufts.edu/~hurry01/ebbl
Scholarship & Research: Urry, H.L., van Reekum, C.M., Johnstone, T., Kalin, N.H., Thurow, M.E., Schaefer, H.S., Jackson, C.A., Frye, C.J., Greischar, L.L., Alexander, A.L., & Davidson, R.J. (2006). Amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex are inversely coupled during regulation of negative affect and predict the diurnal pattern of cortisol secretion among older adults. Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 4415-4425.

Ryff, C.D., Love, G.D., Urry, H.L., Muller, D.H., Rosenkranz, M.A., Friedman, E., Davidson, R.J., & Singer, B. (2006). Psychological well-being and ill-being: Do they have distinct or mirrored biological correlates? Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 75, 85-95.

Friedman, E. M., Hayney, M. S., Love, G. D., Urry, H. L., Rosenkranz, M. A., Davidson, R. J., Singer, B. H., and Ryff, C. D. (2005). Social relationships, sleep quality, and interleukin-6 in aging women. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102,18757-18762.

Urry, H. L., Nitschke, J. B., Dolski, I., Jackson, D. C., Dalton, K. M., Mueller, C. J., Rosenkranz, M. A., Ryff, C. D., Singer, B. H., & Davidson, R. J. (2004). Making a life worth living: Neural correlates of well-being. Psychological Science, 15, 367-372.

Allen, J. J. B., Urry, H. L., Hitt, S. K., Coan, J. A. (2004). The stability of resting frontal electroencephalographic asymmetry in depression. Psychophysiology, 41, 269-280.

Jackson, D.C., Mueller, C., Dolski, I., Dalton, K., Nitschke, J.B., Urry, H.L., Rosenkranz, M.A., Ryff, C., Singer, B., & Davidson, R.J. (2003). Now you feel it, now you don’t: Frontal EEG asymmetry and individual differences in emotion regulation. Psychological Science 14, 612-617.

Shapiro, D.E., Boggs, S.R., Rodrigue, J.R., Urry, H.L., Algina, J.J., Hellman, R., and Ewen, F. (1997). Stage II breast cancer: Differences between four coping patterns in side effects during adjuvant chemotherapy. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 43, 143-157.

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