James A Blumenthal, Professor

James A Blumenthal

Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1975
mailing address: DUMC Box 3119 Durham, NC 27710
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Research Summary:
 Psychosocial factors and coronary heart disease, including such factors as social support, Type A behavior and hostility, and depression, exercise training and depression in the elderly; behavioral approaches to the treatment of hypertension (e.g., weight loss and exercise); cardiac rehabilitation; neuropsychological outcomes following cardiac surgery; psychosocial aspects of heart and lung transplantation; exercise training and osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia; compliance.

Representative Publications:   (More Publications)

  1. Carney, R.M., Freedland, K.E., Steinmeyer, B., Blumenthal, J.A., Berkman, L.F., Watkins, L.L., Czajkowski, S.M., Burg, M.M., Jaffe, A.S. (2008). Depression and five year survival following acute myocardial infarction: A prospective study. Journal of Affective Disorders.
  2. Lett, H.S., Blumenthal, J.A., Babyak, M.A., Catellier, D.J., Carney, R.M., Berkman, L.F., Burg, M.M., Mitchell, P., Jaffe, A.S., Schneiderman, N. (2008). Response: Perceived social support predicts outcomes following myocardial infarction: A call for screening?. Health Psychology, 27(1), 1-3.
  3. Blumenthal, J.A., Babyak, M.A, Ironson, G., Thoreson, C., Powell, L., Czajkowski, S., Burg, M., Keefe, F.J., Steffen, P., Catellier, D., for the ENRICHD Investigators. (2007). Spirituality, religion, and clinical outcomes in patients recovering from an acute myocardial infarction. Psychosomatic Medicine, 69(6), 501-508.
  4. Trivedi, R., Sherwood, A., Strauman, T.J., and Blumenthal, J.A. (2007). Laboratory-based blood pressure recovery is a predictor of ambulatory blood pressure. Biological Psychology.
  5. Blumenthal, J.A., Babyak, M.A., Doraiswamy, M., Watkins, L., Hoffman, B.M., Barbour, K.A., Herman, S., Craighead, W.E., Brosse, A.L., Waugh, R., Hinderliter, A., Sherwood, A. (2007). Exercise and pharmacotherapy in the treatment of major depressive disorder.. Psychosomatic Medicine, 69(7), 587-596.
  6. Blumenthal, J.A., Sherwood, A., Rogers, S.D., Babyak, M.A., Doraiswamy, P.M., Watkins, L., Hoffman, B.M., O’Connell, C., Johnson, J.J., Patidar, S.M., Waugh, R., and Hinderliter, A. (2007). Understanding prognostic benefits of exercise and antidepressant therapy for persons with depression and heart disease: The UPBEAT study— rationale, design, and methodological issues. Clinical Trials, 4(5), 548-559.
  7. J.A. Blumenthal (2007). Psychosocial training and cardiac rehabilitation.. Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, 27(2), 104-107.
  8. Barbour KA, Edenfield TM, Blumenthal JA. (2007). Exercise as a treatment for depression and other psychiatric disorders: A review. Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, 27(6), 359-357.
  9. Mathew, J.P., Podgoreanu, M.V., Grocutt, H.P., White, W.D., Morris, R.W., Stafford-Smith, M., Mackensen, G.B., Rinder, C.S., Blumenthal, J.A., Schwinn, D.A., Newman, M.F., and PEGASUS Investigative Team. (2007). Genetic Variants in P-Selectin and C-Reactive Protein Influence Susceptibility to Cognitive Decline After Cardiac Surgery.. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 49(19), 1934-1942.
  10. Doraiswamy, P.M., Babyak, M.A., Hennig, T., Trivedi, R., White, W.D., Mathew, J.P., Newman, M.F., Blumenthal, J.A. (2007). Donepezil for cognitive decline following coronary artery bypass surgery: a pilot randomized controlled trial.. Psychopharmacology Bulletin, 40(2), 54-62.
  11. Pells, J.J., Shelby, R.A., Keefe, F.K., Dixon, K.E., Blumenthal, J.A., LaCaille, L., Tucker, J.M., Schmitt, D., Caldwell, D.S. and Kraus, V.B. (2007). Arthritis self-efficacy and self-efficacy for resisting eating: Relationships to pain, disability, and eating behavior in overweight and obese individuals with osteoarthritic knee pain. Pain.
  12. Smith, P.J., Blumenthal, J.A., Babyak, M.A., Georgiades, A., Hinderliter, A., Sherwood, A. (2007). Effects of exercise and weight loss on depressive symptoms among men and women with hypertension. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 63(5), 463-469.
  13. Smith, P.J., Blumenthal, J.A., Babyak, M.A., Georgiades, A., Sherwood, A., Sketch, M.H. Jr., Watkins, L.L. (2007). Ventricular ectopy: Impact of self-reported stress after myocardial infarction. American Heart Journal, 153(1), 133-139.
  14. Carney, R.M., Howells, W.B., Blumenthal, J.A., Freedland, K.E., Stein, P.K., Berkman, L.F., Watkins, L.L., Czajkowski, S.M., Steinmeyer, B., Hayano, J., Domitrovich, P.P., Burg, M.M., Jaffe, A.S. (2007). Heart rate turbulence, depression, and survival after acute myocardial infarction.. Psychosomatic Medicine, 69(1), 4-9.
  15. Mathew, J.P., Mackensen, G.B., Phillips-Bute, B., Stafford-Smith, M., Podgoreanu, M.V., Grocott, H.P., Hill, S.E., Smith, P.K., Blumenthal, J.A., Reves, J.G., Newman, M.F., for the Neurologic Outcome Research Group (NORG) of the Duke Heart Center. (2007). Effects of extreme hemodilution during cardiac surgery on cognitive function in the elderly.. Anesthesiology, 107(4), 577-584.
  16. Smith, P.J., Blumenthal, J.A., Babyak, M.A., Hoffman, B.M., Doraiswamy, P.M., Waugh, R., Hinderliter, A., Sherwood, A. (2007). Cerebrovascular risk factors, vascular disease, and neuropsychological outcomes in adults with major depression. Psychosomatic Medicine, 69(6), 578-586.
  17. Lett, H.S., Blumenthal, J.A., Babyak, M.A., Catellier, D.J., Carney, R.M., Berkman, L.F., Burg, M.M., Mitchell, P., Jaffe, A.S., and Schneiderman, N. (2007). Social Support and Prognosis in Patients at Increased Psychosocial Risk Recovering from Myocardial Infarction. Health Psychology, 26(4), 418-427.
  18. Sherwood, A., Bower, J.K., McFetridge-Durdle, J., Blumenthal, J.A., Newby, L.K., Hinderliter, A.L. (2007). Age moderates the short-term effects of 17β-estradiol on endothelium-dependent vascular function in postmenopausal women.. Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, 27.
  19. Sherwood, A., Blumenthal, J.A., Trivedi, R., Johnson, K.S., O’Conner, C.M., Adams, K.F., Dupree, C.S., Waugh, R.A., Bensimhon, D.R., Gaulden, L., Christenson, R.H., Koch, G.G., Hinderliter, A.L. (2007). Relationship of depression to death or hospitalization in patients with heart failure.. Archives of Internal Medicine, 167(4), 367-373.
  20. Whellen, D.J., O’Conner, C.M., Lee, K.L., Keteyian, S.J., Cooper, L.S., Ellis, S.J., Leifer, E.S., Kraus, W.E., Kitzman, D.W., Blumenthal, J.A., Rendall, D.S., Houston-Miller, N., Fleg, J.L., Schulman, K.A., Pina, I.L. on behalf of the HF-ACTION Trial Investigators (2007). Heart Failure and A Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes of exercise traiNing (HF-ACTION): Design and rationale.. American Heart Journal, 153, 201-211.

Courses (Fall 2009):   (typical courses)

  • Psy 306.01, Health psychology intervention