Ellen L Terry, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department:
Biobehavioral Nursing Science
Business Phone:
(352) 273-6441
Business Email:
elterry@ufl.edu
About Ellen L Terry
Research
Dr. Terry’s research experiences involve using psychophysiological assessment techniques (e.g., electrocardiography, skin conductance, electromyography) to investigate the influence of emotion on pain and nociceptive processing in various clinical (e.g., fibromyalgia, major depressive disorder) and healthy pain-free populations, as well as, investigating how psychosocial variables (e.g., pain catastrophizing, negative affect, anxiety sensitivity) alter pain processing. Previous research experiences build upon current NINDS-funded project investigating pain-related neural networks, pain processing, and the influence of pain catastrophizing on pain processing in older African American adults. The primary objective of my research is to elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive-emotional or psychosocial (i.e., pain catastrophizing) contributions to racial minority group differences of pain in older adults. Ultimately, this project is a critical step towards facilitating an independent program of research focusing on developing culturally appropriate evidence-based behavioral interventions aimed at normalizing pain-related brain responses to improve clinical outcomes, including pain and pain-related disability, in older racial and ethnic minorities with chronic pain. Further, this program of research is poised to provide valuable information about the neural mechanisms by which pain catastrophizing influences the experience of pain and pain-related health disparities in an older racial and ethnic minority group.
Service
From 2018-2019, Dr. Terry served as the Co-Chair for the American Pain Society (APS) Geriatric Pain Special Interest Group (SIG) and was responsible for organizing an interdisciplinary panel for the annual SIG meeting held at the APS conference. She is a current reviewer for the following journals: Pain, Journal of Pain, Clinical Journal of Pain, Pain Reports, Pain Research and Management, Osteoarthritis and cartilage, BMC Rheumatology, and International Journal of Behavioral Medicine (JBME).
Teaching Profile
Courses Taught
2020-2025
NGR6840 Applied Statistical Analysis I
2023
DEN5221 Oral Hlth Manage
2024
NGR6845 Applied Statistical Analysis II
Clinical Profile
Specialties
- Psychology
Areas of Interest
- Depression
- Fibromyalgia
- Major depression
- Persistent depressive disorder
Research Profile
Dr. Terry’s areas of expertise include the influence of biopsychosocial factors on pain and pain processing, health disparities in chronic pain, knowledge in the etiology and course of various mental disorders (e.g., Major Depressive Disorder, Anxiety Disorder), the use of cognitive-behavioral therapy and other related therapies for the treatment of mental disorders, and the use of cognitive-behavioral therapy for chronic pain and pain-related psychosocial factors (e.g., pain catastrophizing).
Publications
Academic Articles
2024
Association of neighborhood-level disadvantage beyond individual sociodemographic factors in patients with or at risk of knee osteoarthritis.
BMC musculoskeletal disorders.
25(1)
[DOI] 10.1186/s12891-024-08007-7.
[PMID] 39511529.
2024
Environmental and sociocultural factors are associated with pain-related brain structure among diverse individuals with chronic musculoskeletal pain: intersectional considerations.
Scientific reports.
14(1)
[DOI] 10.1038/s41598-024-58120-9.
[PMID] 38565879.
2024
Examining Reactivity and Recovery Patterns of Pain-Evoked Cortisol and Alpha-Amylase Trajectories: Relations Between Psychological Markers of Risk and Resilience.
The journal of pain.
25(6)
[DOI] 10.1016/j.jpain.2024.01.007.
[PMID] 38246254.
2024
Music in Care (MIC) by Nurses: Initial Validation of a Questionnaire to Characterize Nurses’ Attitudes and Feasibility of Implementation on the Use of Music in Patient Care.
Journal of holistic nursing : official journal of the American Holistic Nurses' Association.
[DOI] 10.1177/08980101241276907.
[PMID] 39263724.
2023
Elucidating factors contributing to disparities in pain-related experiences among adults with or at risk for knee osteoarthritis.
Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland).
4
[DOI] 10.3389/fpain.2023.1058476.
[PMID] 36910251.
2023
Environmental and sociocultural factors are associated with pain-related brain structure among diverse individuals with chronic musculoskeletal pain.
Research square.
[DOI] 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3425338/v1.
[PMID] 37886554.
2023
Pain and Menthol Use Are Related to Greater Nicotine Dependence Among Black Adults Who Smoke Cigarettes at Wave 5 (2018-2019) of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study.
Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities.
10(5):2407-2416
[DOI] 10.1007/s40615-022-01419-y.
[PMID] 36171497.
2022
Applying the NIA Health Disparities Research Framework to Identify Needs and Opportunities in Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Research.
The journal of pain.
23(1):25-44
[DOI] 10.1016/j.jpain.2021.06.015.
[PMID] 34280570.
2022
Associations between pain catastrophizing and resting-state functional brain connectivity: Ethnic/race group differences in persons with chronic knee pain.
Journal of neuroscience research.
100(4):1047-1062
[DOI] 10.1002/jnr.25018.
[PMID] 35187703.
2022
Chronic Pain Severity and Sociodemographics: An Evaluation of the Neurobiological Interface.
The journal of pain.
23(2):248-262
[DOI] 10.1016/j.jpain.2021.07.010.
[PMID] 34425249.
2022
Pain catastrophizing: A patient-centered approach to assessment.
Nursing.
52(4):26-30
[DOI] 10.1097/01.NURSE.0000823252.50782.45.
[PMID] 35358988.
2022
Racial-ethnic Differences in Reasons for Misuse of Prescription Medications Among US Adults.
Journal of addiction medicine.
16(4):470-474
[DOI] 10.1097/ADM.0000000000000932.
[PMID] 34775440.
2021
A Mediation Appraisal of Catastrophizing, Pain-Related Outcomes, and Race in Adults With Knee Osteoarthritis.
The journal of pain.
22(11):1452-1466
[DOI] 10.1016/j.jpain.2021.04.018.
[PMID] 34033964.
2021
Associations of pain catastrophizing with pain-related brain structure in individuals with or at risk for knee osteoarthritis: Sociodemographic considerations.
Brain imaging and behavior.
15(4):1769-1777
[DOI] 10.1007/s11682-020-00372-w.
[PMID] 33095381.
2021
Knee pain trajectories over 18 months in non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White adults with or at risk for knee osteoarthritis.
BMC musculoskeletal disorders.
22(1)
[DOI] 10.1186/s12891-021-04284-8.
[PMID] 33952243.
2021
Patterns and Correlates of Self-Management Strategies for Osteoarthritis-Related Pain Among Older Non-Hispanic Black and Non-Hispanic White Adults.
Arthritis care & research.
73(11):1648-1658
[DOI] 10.1002/acr.24396.
[PMID] 32741127.
2021
Resilience, pain, and the brain: Relationships differ by sociodemographics.
Journal of neuroscience research.
99(5):1207-1235
[DOI] 10.1002/jnr.24790.
[PMID] 33606287.
2020
Everyday Discrimination in Adults with Knee Pain: The Role of Perceived Stress and Pain Catastrophizing.
Journal of pain research.
13:883-895
[DOI] 10.2147/JPR.S235632.
[PMID] 32431537.
2020
Neuropathic-Like Pain Symptoms in a Community-Dwelling Sample with or at Risk for Knee Osteoarthritis.
Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.).
21(1):125-137
[DOI] 10.1093/pm/pnz112.
[PMID] 31150093.
2019
At the Intersection of Ethnicity/Race and Poverty: Knee Pain and Physical Function.
Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities.
6(6):1131-1143
[DOI] 10.1007/s40615-019-00615-7.
[PMID] 31292922.
2019
Movement-evoked pain, physical function, and perceived stress: An observational study of ethnic/racial differences in aging non-Hispanic Blacks and non-Hispanic Whites with knee osteoarthritis.
Experimental gerontology.
124
[DOI] 10.1016/j.exger.2019.05.011.
[PMID] 31154005.
2019
Race/Ethnicity Moderates the Association Between Psychosocial Resilience and Movement-Evoked Pain in Knee Osteoarthritis.
ACR open rheumatology.
1(1):16-25
[DOI] 10.1002/acr2.1002.
[PMID] 31777776.
2019
Racial-Ethnic Differences in Osteoarthritis Pain and Disability: A Meta-Analysis.
The journal of pain.
20(6):629-644
[DOI] 10.1016/j.jpain.2018.11.012.
[PMID] 30543951.
2019
Resilience factors may buffer cellular aging in individuals with and without chronic knee pain.
Molecular pain.
15
[DOI] 10.1177/1744806919842962.
[PMID] 30900507.
2018
Optimism and Psychological Resilience are Beneficially Associated With Measures of Clinical and Experimental Pain in Adults With or at Risk for Knee Osteoarthritis.
The Clinical journal of pain.
34(12):1164-1172
[DOI] 10.1097/AJP.0000000000000642.
[PMID] 30036216.
2016
Does pain catastrophizing contribute to threat-evoked amplification of pain and spinal nociception?
Pain.
157(2):456-465
[DOI] 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000392.
[PMID] 30888338.
2016
Endogenous inhibition of pain and spinal nociception in women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder.
Journal of pain research.
9:57-66
[DOI] 10.2147/JPR.S97109.
[PMID] 26929663.
2016
Is blood glucose associated with descending modulation of spinal nociception as measured by the nociceptive flexion reflex?
Journal of pain research.
9:187-93
[DOI] 10.2147/JPR.S101720.
[PMID] 27110138.
2015
Experimental reduction of pain catastrophizing modulates pain report but not spinal nociception as verified by mediation analyses.
Pain.
156(8):1477-1488
[DOI] 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000192.
[PMID] 25887463.
2015
Further verification by bootstrapped mediation analyses that pain catastrophizing modulates pain report but not spinal nociception: a reply to Lee, Hübscher, and McAuley.
Pain.
156(12):2635-2636
[DOI] 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000345.
[PMID] 26580682.
2015
Natural variation in testosterone is associated with hypoalgesia in healthy women.
The Clinical journal of pain.
31(8):730-9
[DOI] 10.1097/AJP.0000000000000153.
[PMID] 25185874.
2015
Nociceptive processing in women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD): the role of menstrual phase and sex hormones.
The Clinical journal of pain.
31(4):304-14
[DOI] 10.1097/AJP.0000000000000112.
[PMID] 24810651.
2014
Affective disturbance associated with premenstrual dysphoric disorder does not disrupt emotional modulation of pain and spinal nociception.
Pain.
155(10):2144-52
[DOI] 10.1016/j.pain.2014.08.011.
[PMID] 25139588.
2014
Emotional modulation of pain and spinal nociception in persons with severe insomnia symptoms.
Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine.
47(3):303-15
[DOI] 10.1007/s12160-013-9551-1.
[PMID] 24101292.
2013
Do sex hormones influence emotional modulation of pain and nociception in healthy women?
Biological psychology.
94(3):534-44
[DOI] 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2013.10.003.
[PMID] 24141047.
2013
Emotional modulation of pain and spinal nociception in fibromyalgia.
Pain.
154(7):1045-56
[DOI] 10.1016/j.pain.2013.03.025.
[PMID] 23622762.
2013
Emotional modulation of pain and spinal nociception in persons with major depressive disorder (MDD).
Pain.
154(12):2759-2768
[DOI] 10.1016/j.pain.2013.08.009.
[PMID] 23954763.
2013
Examining emotional modulation of pain and spinal nociception in Native Americans: a preliminary investigation.
International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology.
90(2):272-81
[DOI] 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2013.08.009.
[PMID] 23994207.
2013
Exploring pain processing differences in Native Americans.
Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association.
32(11):1127-1136
[DOI] 10.1037/a0031057.
[PMID] 24219417.
2012
Anxiety sensitivity does not enhance pain signaling at the spinal level.
The Clinical journal of pain.
28(6):505-10
[DOI] 10.1097/AJP.0b013e31823984f9.
[PMID] 22673483.
2012
Respiration-induced hypoalgesia: exploration of potential mechanisms.
The journal of pain.
13(8):755-63
[DOI] 10.1016/j.jpain.2012.05.001.
[PMID] 22770894.
2012
Using multilevel growth curve modeling to examine emotional modulation of temporal summation of pain (TS-pain) and the nociceptive flexion reflex (TS-NFR).
Pain.
153(11):2274-2282
[DOI] 10.1016/j.pain.2012.07.030.
[PMID] 22920754.
2011
Pain catastrophizing is related to temporal summation of pain but not temporal summation of the nociceptive flexion reflex.
Pain.
152(4):794-801
[DOI] 10.1016/j.pain.2010.12.041.
[PMID] 21316150.
2011
Standardizing procedures to study sensitization of human spinal nociceptive processes: comparing parameters for temporal summation of the nociceptive flexion reflex (TS-NFR).
International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology.
81(3):263-74
[DOI] 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2011.06.021.
[PMID] 21767583.
Grants
Apr 2023
ACTIVE
The impact of structural racism and discrimination on chronic pain in Black or African American older adults: Biopsychosocial mechanisms
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NIA
Apr 2018
– Mar 2024
Neural mechanisms underlying psychosocial contributions to ethnic group differences in pain
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NINDS
Education
PhD in Clinical Psychology
2015
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University of Tulsa
MA in Clinical Psychology
2010
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University of Tulsa
BA Psychology
2008
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University of Texas on Arlington
Contact Details
Phones:
- Business:
- (352) 273-6441
Emails:
- Business:
- elterry@ufl.edu
Addresses:
- Business Mailing:
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PO Box 100197
GAINESVILLE FL 32610 - Business Street:
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1225 CENTER DR
GAINESVILLE FL 32610