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Prevention of Stress-Provoked Endothelial Injury by Values Affirmation: a Proof of Principle Study

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    1. Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

      Julie Spicer Ph.D.

    2. Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

      Natalie Johnston M.S., Valerie Purdie-Vaughns Ph.D. & Jonathan Cook Ph.D.

    3. Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

      Daichi Shimbo M.D., Manjunath Harlapur M.D., Jie Fu M.S. & Matthew M. Burg Ph.D.

    4. Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, 345 UCB, Boulder, CO, 80305, USA

      Tor D. Wager Ph.D.

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    This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH R21 MH082308 to T.D.W and NIH R01 HL116470 to D.S.).

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    Spicer, J., Shimbo, D., Johnston, N. et al. Prevention of Stress-Provoked Endothelial Injury by Values Affirmation: a Proof of Principle Study. ann. behav. med. 50, 471–479 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12160-015-9756-6

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