Completed Studies

  • Integrating Mind-Body Skills With Physical Activity to Improve Physical and Emotional Outcomes in Patients with Heterogeneous Chronic Pain (3R34AT009356-02S1)

    Principal investigator: 
    Ana-Maria Vranceanu, PhD
    Funding Source: 
    National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health

  • My Healthy Brain: A Novel Mind-Body Program for Promoting Brain Health Through Lifestyle Change (2020A013107)

    Principal Investigators:
    Ana-Maria Vranceanu, PhD, Ryan Mace, PhD
    Funding Source:
    Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

  • Resilient Together: Developing a Resiliency Skills Program for Dyads of Patients With Young Onset Dementia and Their Care-Partners (R21NR017979-02S1)

    Principal investigator:
    Ana-Maria Vranceanu, PhD
    Funding Source:
    National Institute of Nursing Research

  • In Need and Hard to Reach: Adaptation of an Evidence-based Neurofibromatosis Resiliency Training Program for Web-Based Delivery (NF-WEB)

    Principal investigator:
    Ethan Lester, PhD, Ana-Maria Vranceanu, PhD
    Funding Source:
    NF Northeast, NF Midwest, NF Texas

  • Risk and Resiliency Factors in Parents of Children Admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: a Prospective Study

    Principal investigator:
    Victoria Grunberg, PhD

  • Understanding the Needs of Caregivers of Comatose ICU Patients

    Principal Investigator: 
    David Hwang, PhD & Ana-Maria Vranceanu, PhD
    Funding Source:
    Yale Departmental Funding

  • Resiliency Training for Adults with Neurofibromatosis via Live Videoconferencing (W81XWH-17-1-0121)

    Principal investigator: 
    Ana-Maria Vranceanu, PhD
    Funding Source: 
    Department of Defense

  • Development of a Mind Body Program to Reduce Cartilage Breakdown and Knee Pain in Obese Osteoarthritis Patients With Co-Morbid Depression (R34AT010370)

    Principal Investigators:
    Ana-Maria Vranceanu, PhD & Cale Jacobs, PhD
    Funding Source:
    National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health

  • Understanding the Interplay Between Lifestyle Factors and Emotional Distress for Survivors with Hemorrhagic Stroke and Their Informal Caregivers: A Mixed Methods Dyadic Natural History Study

    Principal Investigator: 
    Ethan Lester, PhD
    Funding Source: 
    Young Investigator Award Heitman Fellowship (MGH Neurology Internal Research Grant)

  • Physical and Psychological Measures of Pain in Acute Orthopedic Injuries: Use of At-Home Virtual Reality (recoVR)

    Principal Investigator: 
    Ryan Mace, PhD
    Funding Source: 
    The David Borsook Project and the Cathedral Fund

  • Web-Based Mind-Body Treatment to Enhance Resilience Among Patients With Painful Nontraumatic Upper Extremity Conditions and Comorbid Depression

    Principal Investigator: 
    Jafar Bakhshaie, MD, PhD
    Funding Source: 
    Kaplen Fellowship & Livingston Fellowship Award  

  • Toolkit for Optimal Recovery After Orthopedic Injury: A Multi-Site Feasibility Study to Prevent Persistent Pain and Disability (1U01AT010462-01A1)

    Principal Investigator: 
    Ana-Maria Vranceanu, PhD
    Funding Source: 
    National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health

  • INSTILL: Interventions for Stressful Transitions in Later Life

    Principal Investigators: Evan Plys, PhD
    Study Coordinator: Makenna Law, BS & Morgan Seward, BA
    Funding Source: The Ki Sub Joung Innovative Junior Faculty Pilot Award in Aging and Palliative Care (MGH Internal)

    This study will build partnerships with skilled nursing facilities and establish a community advisory board to co-design a psychosocial intervention for older adults receiving nursing home-based post-acute rehabilitation care as well as their family care-partners (i.e., family dyads), with an emphasis on socioeconomically under-resourced families. We will (1) conduct qualitative interviews with Medicaid-eligible older adults and their family care-partners skilled nursing facilities to identify psychosocial treatment preferences; (2) conduct focus groups with skilled nursing facility staff to identify workflows for psychosocial intervention; and (3) convene a community advisory board of clinicians and other persons with relevant lived experience to collaboratively develop an intervention for family dyads in skilled nursing facilities.

  • The Coma Family Program: a Resilience Program for Caregivers of Patients With Severe Acute Brain Injuries

    Principal Investigators: Alexander Presciutti, PhD, MSCS and David Hwang, MD
    Study Coordinator: Elizabeth Rochon, BA
    Funding Source: Neurocritical Care Foundation

  • MASC: The Mindful and Self-Compassionate Care Program; Reducing Stress for Caregivers of Persons with Dementia (1R01AG078204-01)

    Principal Investigators: Christina Ritchie, MD, MSPH & Ana-Maria Vranceanu, PhD
    Study Coordinator: Aniyah Travis, BA Funding Source: National Institute on Aging

  • First Year of Multiple Sclerosis in the MS Dyad

    Principal Investigators: Heena Manglani, PhD
    Study Coordinator: Anastasia Prussakova; Ariel Emrani Funding Source: International Neuropalliative Care Society

  • TEND: Toolkit for Experiential Well‑being in Dementia

    Principal Investigators: Christine Ritchie, MD, MSPH; Ana‑Maria Vranceanu, PhD
    Study Coordinator: Elizabeth Rochon, BA; Ayush Thacker, BS‍ ‍ Funding Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

  • STRIDE: Using Mobile Technology to Reduce Stress in Caregivers of Persons with Dementia. A Scalable Solution to A Growing Problem

    Principal Investigators: Ana‑Maria Vranceanu, PhD; Jennifer Huberty, PhD
    Study Coordinator: Morgan Seward, BA Funding Source: National Institute on Aging

  • Improving Multimodal Physical Function in Adults with Heterogenous Chronic Pain

    Principal Investigators: Ana‑Maria Vranceanu, PhD; Jonathan Greenberg, PhD
    Study Coordinator: Dany La Camera, BA Funding Source: NCCIH

  • Resilient Families (R‑FAM): A Dyadic Resiliency Intervention for Parents of Babies in Neonatal Intensive Care

    Principal Investigators: Victoria Grunberg, PhD
    Study Coordinator: Julia Davis Funding Source: NICHD

  • Toolkit: Live Video Mind‑Body Treatment to Prevent Persistent Symptoms Following MTBI

    Principal Investigators: Jonathan Greenberg, PhD
    Study Coordinator: Kozbi Bayne-Cliff, BS Funding Source: National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health