Stress, telomeres, and psychopathology: toward a deeper understanding of a triad of early aging

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Human telomere biology: A contributory and interactive factor in aging, disease risks, and protection

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Telomere dysfunction induces metabolic and mitochondrial compromise

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Schizophrenia and increased risks of cardiovascular disease

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Identification of seven loci affecting mean telomere length and their association with disease

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Chronic inflammation induces telomere dysfunction and accelerates ageing in mice

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Is depression associated with increased oxidative stress? A systematic review and meta-analysis

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Life Stress, the "Kindling" Hypothesis, and the Recurrence of Depression: Considerations From a Life Stress Perspective.

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Depression and Risk for Onset of Type II Diabetes: A prospective population-based study

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Exposure to violence during childhood is associated with telomere erosion from 5 to 10 years of age: a longitudinal study

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Meta-analysis of telomere length in 19,713 subjects reveals high heritability, stronger maternal inheritance and a paternal age effect

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Cell aging in relation to stress arousal and cardiovascular disease risk factors

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Increased telomerase activity and comprehensive lifestyle changes: a pilot study

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Leukocyte Telomere Length in Major Depression: Correlations with Chronicity, Inflammation and Oxidative Stress - Preliminary Findings

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Stress and telomere biology: a lifespan perspective

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Stress exposure in intrauterine life is associated with shorter telomere length in young adulthood

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Effect of comprehensive lifestyle changes on telomerase activity and telomere length in men with biopsy-proven low-risk prostate cancer: 5-year follow-up of a descriptive pilot study

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Association Between Shortened Leukocyte Telomere Length and Cardiometabolic Outcomes: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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Impartial comparative analysis of measurement of leukocyte telomere length/DNA content by Southern blots and qPCR

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Childhood maltreatment and telomere shortening: preliminary support for an effect of early stress on cellular aging

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Immunosenescence: what does it mean to health outcomes in older adults?

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Can Meditation Slow Rate of Cellular Aging? Cognitive Stress, Mindfulness, and Telomeres

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Peripheral Blood Leukocyte Telomere Length and Mortality Among 64 637 Individuals From the General Population

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Psychiatric disorders and leukocyte telomere length: Underlying mechanisms linking mental illness with cellular aging

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Social disadvantage, genetic sensitivity, and children's telomere length

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Early life adversity and telomere length: a meta-analysis

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Major depressive disorder and accelerated cellular aging: results from a large psychiatric cohort study

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Molecular Signatures of Major Depression

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Childhood trauma associated with short leukocyte telomere length in posttraumatic stress disorder

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Depression and telomere length: a meta-analysis

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Collapse of Telomere Homeostasis in Hematopoietic Cells Caused by Heterozygous Mutations in Telomerase Genes

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Maternal psychosocial stress during pregnancy is associated with newborn leukocyte telomere length

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The association between psychiatric disorders and telomere length: a meta-analysis involving 14,827 persons

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Of sound mind and body: depression, disease, and accelerated aging

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Does cellular aging relate to patterns of allostasis?

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The Role of Trauma and Stressful Life Events among Individuals at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis: A Review

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An experimental demonstration that early-life competitive disadvantage accelerates telomere loss

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Mindfulness‐based cancer recovery and supportive‐expressive therapy maintain telomere length relative to controls in distressed breast cancer survivors

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Telomere length and cortisol reactivity in children of depressed mothers

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Long-term lithium treatment in bipolar disorder is associated with longer leukocyte telomeres

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Shorter telomeres with high telomerase activity are associated with raised allostatic load and impoverished psychosocial resources

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A meta-analytic review of the effects of mindfulness meditation on telomerase activity

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The role of oxidative and nitrosative stress in accelerated aging and major depressive disorder

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Influence of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) on Telomerase Activity in Women with Breast Cancer (BC)

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Lifespan adversity and later adulthood telomere length in the nationally representative US Health and Retirement Study

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Pessimism correlates with leukocyte telomere shortness and elevated interleukin-6 in post-menopausal women

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Systematic review of the association between chronic social stress and telomere length: A life course perspective

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Prenatal stress and newborn telomere length

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Internalizing disorders and leukocyte telomere erosion: a prospective study of depression, generalized anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder

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Determinants of telomere attrition over 1 year in healthy older women: stress and health behaviors matter

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Stress appraisals and cellular aging: A key role for anticipatory threat in the relationship between psychological stress and telomere length

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Association Between Neighborhood Violence and Biological Stress in Children

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THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN DEPRESSION AND LEUKOCYTE TELOMERE LENGTH: A META-ANALYSIS

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Parental responsiveness moderates the association between early-life stress and reduced telomere length

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Resting leukocyte telomerase activity is elevated in major depression and predicts treatment response

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Telomere Length in Newborns is Related to Maternal Stress During Pregnancy

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Systematic and Cell Type-Specific Telomere Length Changes in Subsets of Lymphocytes

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Does stress play a significant role in bipolar disorder? A meta-analysis

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Shortened telomere length in white matter oligodendrocytes in major depression: potential role of oxidative stress

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Telomere Length Shortening and Alzheimer Disease—A Mendelian Randomization Study

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Telomere dynamics may link stress exposure and ageing across generations

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Hippocampal telomerase is involved in the modulation of depressive behaviors

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How “reversible” is telomeric aging?

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Telomere length and pulse pressure in newly diagnosed, antipsychotic-naive patients with nonaffective psychosis

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Stress-related telomere length in children: a systematic review

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Are Anxiety Disorders Associated with Accelerated Aging? A Focus on Neuroprogression

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Chronic stress elevates telomerase activity in rats

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A short leucocyte telomere length is associated with development of insulin resistance

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The relationship between childhood psychosocial stressor level and telomere length: a meta-analysis

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Variable telomere length across post-mortem human brain regions and specific reduction in the hippocampus of major depressive disorder

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Autonomic and adrenocortical reactivity and buccal cell telomere length in kindergarten children

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Short telomere length is associated with impaired cognitive performance in European ancestry cohorts

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The circadian rhythm controls telomeres and telomerase activity

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Repeated stressors in adulthood increase the rate of biological ageing

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Insomnia and Telomere Length in Older Adults

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