Nida Ali
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
Liebiggasse 5
A-1010 Vienna
Room: O1.26
+43-1-4277-47294
Research Areas
- Interactions between stress systems
- Stress-related disorders
CV
Nida Ali is a clinical and health psychologist interested in understanding the pathway from stress to disease. She investigates the interactions among the biological (neuroendocrine, autonomic, and immune systems) and psychological (cognitive, emotional) processes that are involved during stress, and their links to health and disease in men and women.
Publications
Ali, N., Strahler, J., & Nater, U. M. (2025). The effects of chronic fatigue and chronic stress on alterations in immune cell responses to acute psychosocial stress. Brain, behavior, and immunity, 123(123), 707-716. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2024.10.013
Song, Y., Ali, N., & Nater, U. M. (2024). The effect of music on stress recovery. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 168, Article 107137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2024.107137
Ali, N., Tschenett, H., & Nater, U. M. (2023). Biomarkers of stress and disease. In H. S. Friedman, & C. H. Markey (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Mental Health (3. ed., Vol. Vol. 1, pp. 221-231). Elsevier.
Fischer, S., Ali, N., Feneberg, A. C., Mewes, R., & Nater, U. M. (2022). Does childhood trauma impact daily psychobiological stress in somatic symptom disorder? An ambulatory assessment study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, Article 954051. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.954051
Ali, N., Skoluda, N., Strahler, J., & Nater, U. M. (2022). Associations between fatigue and endocrine functioning in chronically stressed individuals. Journal of Psychosomatic Research , 157, Article 110813. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2022.110813
Fischer, S., Skoluda, N., Ali, N., Nater, U. M., & Mewes, R. (2022). Hair cortisol levels in women with medically unexplained symptoms. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 146, 77-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.12.044
Ali, N., Skoluda, N., Strahler, J., & Nater, U. M. (2022). Associations between fatigue and endocrine functioning in chronically stressed individuals. Paper presented at EAPM, Wien, Austria.
Ali, N., Skoluda, N., Strahler, J., & Nater, U. M. (2022). Associations between fatigue and endocrine functioning in chronically stressed individuals. Paper presented at 2022 Annual Scientific Meeting of American Psychosomatic Society (APS), Long Beach, California, United States.
Forbes, P., Lamm, C., Nitschke, J. P., Ali, N., Cutler, J., Apps, M. A. J., & Lockwood, P. L. (2021). Resilience during uncertainty? Greater social connectedness during COVID-19 lockdown is associated with reduced distress and fatigue. British Journal of Health Psychology, 26(2), 553-569. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9ehm7, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12485
Ali, N., Cooperman, C., Nitschke, J., Baldwin, M., & Pruessner, J. C. (2020). The effects of suppressing the biological stress systems on social threat-assessment following acute stress. Psychopharmacology, 237(10), 3047–3056. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-020-05591-z
Ali, N., Nitschke, J. P., Cooperman, C., Baldwin, M. W., & Pruessner, J. C. (2020). Systematic manipulations of the biological stress systems result in sex-specific compensatory stress responses and negative mood outcomes. Neuropsychopharmacology, 45(10), 1672-1680. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-020-0726-8
Ali, N., & Nater, U. M. (2020). Salivary Alpha-Amylase as a Biomarker of Stress in Behavioral Medicine. International journal of behavioral medicine, 27(3), 337–342. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-019-09843-x
Nater, U. M., & Ali, N. (2020). Alpha-Amylase. In M. D. Gellman (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. 2020 Edition Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39903-0, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6439-6_2-3
Nater, U. M., & Ali, N. (2019). Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. In M. Gellman (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine (Living Edition ed., pp. 1-5). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6439-6_7-2
Ali, N., Nitschke, J. P., Cooperman, C., & Pruessner, J. C. (2017). Suppressing the endocrine and autonomic stress systems does not impact the emotional stress experience after psychosocial stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 83(Supplement), 74-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2017.07.437
Ali, N., Nitschke, J. P., Cooperman, C., & Pruessner, J. C. (2017). Suppressing the endocrine and autonomic stress systems does not impact the emotional stress experience after psychosocial stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 78, 125-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2017.01.015