Janice K. Kiecolt‐Glaser

Kiecolt-Glaser studies how close relationships—especially marriage and caregiving—affect physical health, focusing on stress hormones, inflammation, and immune function. Her work often examines how these links change with age and how they play out in contexts like cancer survivorship, dementia caregiving, and couples' communication about difficult memories. This research combines psychology with biological markers (like inflammatory gene expression and telomere length) to understand pathways from relationship stress to physical aging and disease.

Publication output was fairly steady to growing from 2017 through 2022 (roughly 8-16 papers/year), followed by a marked decline from 2023 onward.

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