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  • Claude H. Everett Jr. '47 Chair in Liberal Arts, APA Fellow and APS Fellow
  • Professor
Research Areas
  • Affective Science
  • Behavioral & Cellular Neuroscience
  • Clinical

Research Interests

  • Biobehavioral mechanisms that influence pain
  • Stress and Disease
  • Psychoneuroimmunology
  • Health Psychology

 

Affiliated Research Cluster

Neuroscience. Psychoneuroimmunology; pain; stress and disease in humans and animal models.
Affective Science. Interactions of pain, emotion, and stress; effects on motivation and decision making; affect regulation in clinical pain.

 

Awards & Honors

  • Recent Grants

    • NIH/NICHD R01, Co-I with Joe Arosh (PI). Phytotherapy for Endometriosis,
      9/1/22-5-30/27, $1,628,625.

Selected Publications

    • *You, D.S., *Albu, S., *Linsenbardt, H.R., & Meagher, M.W. (2019). Cumulative childhood adversity as a risk factor for common chronic pain conditions in young adults.  Pain Medicine, 20(3):486-494.

    • *Sergiu A., Meagher, M.W. (2019). Divergent effects of conditioned pain modulation on subjective pain and nociceptive-related brain activity. Experimental Brain Research, 237, 1735–1744

    • *You, D.S., *Hunter, H.,  Welsh, T.H & Meagher, M.W. (2020). Hyperalgesia after a drinking episode in young adult binge drinkers: A cross-sectional study.  Alcohol and Alcoholism, 55, 608–615. PMID: 32476005. (3.209)

    • *Rassu FS, **Luedke JC, *Nanavaty N, Mathur VA, Meagher, M.W. (2020). Greater mechanical temporal summation of pain in Latinx-Americans and the role of adverse life experiences. Pain Reports.  Sep 1;5(5):e842. 

    • Albu, S., Linsenbardt, H.R., & Meagher, M.W. (2022). Cognitive-affective modulation of pain: The Placebo and nocebo phenomena and their impact on pain treatment (pp 375-386).  In Rajendra, Preedy, Patel, and Martin (Eds), The Neurobiology, Physiology, and Psychology of Pain, 375-386, Academic Press.

    • *You, D. S., *Rassu, F.S., & Meagher MW (2023). Emotion regulation strategies moderate the impact of negative affect induction on alcohol craving in college drinkers: an experimental paradigm. Journal of American College Health, 71(5):1538-1546.

    •  *Nanavaty, N.Thompson, C.G., Meagher, M.W., McCord, C., & Mathur, V.A. (2023). Traumatic life experience and pain sensitization: Meta-analysis of laboratory findings. The Clinical Journal of Pain.Jan 1;39(1):15-28.

     

     

National Service

  • U.S. HHS Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force Member
    Representing the American Psychological Association (2018-2019).
  • Contributor to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2019, May).
    Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force Report: Updates,
    Gaps, Inconsistencies, and Recommendations. Retrieved from U. S. Department
    of Health and Human Services website:
    https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/pmtf-final-report-2019-05-23.pdf
  • American Psychological Association Pain Initiative Advisory Group (2018-2022)
  • American Psychological Association Opioid Initiative Advisory Group (2019-
    2021)