Nova Southeastern University, Inc. was awarded a $350,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The three-year award will support research investigating the role of mind wandering in stress-related changes in executive attention and inflammation. Specifically, the grantee will collect measures of stress, cognition, and inflammation at baseline and during periods of low and high chronic stress. The research aims to examine whether and how mindfulness mediates relationships between stress and inflammation and between stress and attention. It further seeks to identify individual difference factors that predict mindfulness and mind wandering under stress. Findings from this study are intended to provide insight into how chronic stress impacts cognitive functioning and inflammation, as well as factors that could be leveraged in interventions to limit stress's negative health impacts.
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