Dr. Michael T. Allen

    Chair and Professor of Psychology

    Room 205 Peabody Building
    University, MS 38677

    Phone: (662) 915-5190
    Fax: (662) 915-5398
    mta1@olemiss.edu
 

Research Areas:

• Cardiovascular reactivity and stress
• Electrophysiology

Selected Publications:

Allen, M. T., & Matthews, K. A.  (1997).  Hemodynamic responses to laboratory stressors in children and adolescents:  The influence of age, race, and gender.  Psychophysiology, 34, 329-339.

Allen, M. T., Matthews, K. A., & Sherman, F. S.  (1997).  Cardiovascular reactivity to stress and left ventricular mass in youth.  Hypertension, 30, 782-787.

Matthews, K. A., Gump, B. B., Block, D. R., & Allen, M. T.  (1997).  Does background stress heighten or dampen children’s cardiovascular responses to acute stress?  Psychosomatic Medicine, 59, 488-496.

Light, K. C., Kothandapani, R. V., & Allen, M. T.  (1998).  Enhanced cardiovascular and plasma catecholamine responses in women with depressive symptoms.  International Journal of Psychophysiology, 28, 157-166.

Tardy, C. H., & Allen, M. T.  (1998).  Moderators of cardiovascular reactivity to speech:  Discourse production and group variations in blood pressure and pulse rate.  International Journal of Psychophysiology, 29, 247-254.

Allen, M.T., Matthews, K.A., & Kenyon, K.L. (2000). The relationships of resting baroreflex sensitivity, heart rate variability and measures of impulse control in children and adolescents.  International Journal of Psychophysiology, 37, 185-194.

Salomon, K., Matthews, K.A., & Allen, M.T.  (2000).  Patterns of sympathetic and parasympathetic reactivity in a sample of children and adolescents.  Psychophysiology, 37, 842-849.

Matthews, K.A., Salomon, K., Kenyon, K., & Allen, M.T. (2002).  Stability of children's and adolescents' hemodynamic responses to psychological challenge: A three year longitudinal study of a multiethnic cohort of boys and girls.  Psychophysiology, 39, 826-834.

Friedman, B.H., Allen, M.T., Christie, I.C., & Santucci, A.K. (2002). Validity concerns of common heart-rate variability indices: Addressing quantification issues in time- and frequency-domain measures of HRV. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 21(4), 35-40.

Matthews, K.A., Salomon, K., Brady, S.S., & Allen, M.T. (2003). Cardiovascular reactivity to stress predicts future blood pressure in adolescents. Psychosomatic Medicine, 65, 410-415.

Straneva-Meuse, P.A., Light, K.C., Allen, M.T., Golding, M., & Girdler, S.S. (2004). Buproprion and paroxetine differentially influence cardiovascular and neuroendocrine responses to stress in depressed patients. Journal of Affective Disorders, 79, 51-61.

Selected Grants:

National Institutes of Health, HL38712, "CHD Risk, Behavioral Stress, and Reproductive Hormones," Co-Investigator, 1/1/91-8/31/96, Consultant, 9/1/96-6/30/98.

National Institutes of Health, HL25767, "Antecedents of the Type A Behavior Pattern," Co-Principal Investigator, 1/1/91-8/31/96, Consultant, 9/1/96-3/31/02.

National Institutes of Health, CA82378, "Measurement of adaptive style in children with cancer," Consultant, 4/1/00-3/31/04.