Chris Engeland
Professor of Biobehavioral Health and Nursing
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Biobehavioral Health Bldg.
University Park, PA - cge2@psu.edu
- 814-865-4694
Research Summary
How stress, age, gender, and hormones affect inflammation / health. Biomarker feasibility for predicting health outcomes.
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Most Recent Publications
Interactive effects of age and inflammation on change in ecologically-assessed cognitive functioning
Christopher Engeland, The Gerontological Society of America [GSA]
Corticosteroid modulation of oral mucosal wound healing.
Christopher Engeland, PT Marucha, Psychosomatic Medicine
Inflammatory biomarkers and sex hormones interact to predict ecologically-assessed cognitive performance
Christopher Engeland, GSA
Neighborhood racial composition and experiences of racial discrimination: Associations with cytokines during pregnancy among African American women
Molly A. Wright, Carmen Giurgescu, Dawn P. Misra, Jaime C. Slaughter-Acey, Christopher G. Engeland, 2024, Brain, Behavior, and Immunity - Health
Racial differences in links between perceived discrimination, depressive symptoms, and ambulatory working memory
Erin E. Harrington, Alyssa A. Gamaldo, John M. Felt, Dakota D. Witzel, Martin J. Sliwinski, Kyle W. Murdock, Christopher G. Engeland, Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland, 2024, Aging and Mental Health
Momentary loneliness and intrusive thoughts among older adults: the interactive roles of mild cognitive impairment and marital status
Karina Van Bogart, Erin E. Harrington, Dakota D. Witzel, Jee eun Kang, Martin J. Sliwinski, Christopher G. Engeland, Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland, 2024, Aging and Mental Health
Epigenetic Age Acceleration and Chronological Age: Associations With Cognitive Performance in Daily Life
D Zavala, Natalie , N Dzikowski, S Gopalan, K Harrington, G Pasquini, Jacqueline Mogle, E Muñoz, K Reid, Martin Sliwinski, K Reid, Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland, M Sliwinski, J Graham, Christopher G. Engeland, J Graham-Engeland, K Bernard, K Bernard, K Veeramah, S Scott, K Veeramah, S Scott, 2024, Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences on p. 10 pages
Correction: The heart of Detroit study: a window into urban middle-aged and older African Americans’ daily lives to understand psychosocial determinants of cardiovascular disease risk (BMC Psychiatry, (2023), 23, 1, (766), 10.1186/s12888-023-05148-2)
Kristin M. Davis, Katherine Knauft, Lena Lewis, Michael Petriello, Lauren Petrick, Francesca Luca, Nataria T. Joseph, Heather Fritz, Malcolm Cutchin, Lance Rappaport, Phillip Levy, Christopher G. Engeland, Samuele Zilioli, 2023, BMC Psychiatry
The heart of Detroit study: a window into urban middle-aged and older African Americans’ daily lives to understand psychosocial determinants of cardiovascular disease risk
Kristin M. Davis, Katherine Knauft, Lena Lewis, Michael Petriello, Lauren Petrick, Francesca Luca, Nataria T. Joseph, Heather Fritz, Malcolm Cutchin, Lance Rappaport, Philip Levy, Christopher G. Engeland, Samuele Zilioli, 2023, BMC Psychiatry
The association of epigenetic age acceleration and depressive and anxiety symptom severity among children recently exposed to substantiated maltreatment
Zhenyu Z. Zhang, Camille Moeckel, Manal Mustafa, Holly Pham, Anneke E. Olson, Divya Mehta, Lorah D. Dorn, Christopher Engeland, Christopher G. Engeland, Chad Shenk, Chad E. Shenk, 2023, Journal of Psychiatric Research on p. 7-13
Most-Cited Papers
Salivary markers of inflammation in response to acute stress
D Slavish, J Graham, Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland, Joshua M. Smyth, Christopher G. Engeland, 2015, Brain, Behavior, and Immunity on p. 253-269
Inflammation and the dimensions of depression: A review
Marzieh Majd, Erika F.H. Saunders, Christopher G. Engeland, 2020, Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology
The Effects of Stress on Cognitive Aging, Physiology and Emotion (ESCAPE) Project
Stacey B. Scott, Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland, Christopher G. Engeland, Joshua M. Smyth, David M. Almeida, Mindy J. Katz, Richard B. Lipton, Jacqueline A. Mogle, Elizabeth Munoz, Nilam Ram, Martin J. Sliwinski, 2015, BMC Psychiatry on p. 146-160
Psychological distress and salivary secretory immunity
C. G. Engeland, F. N. Hugo, J. B. Hilgert, G. G. Nascimento, R. Junges, H. J. Lim, P. T. Marucha, J. A. Bosch, 2016, Brain, Behavior, and Immunity on p. 11-17
Perceived stress is linked to heightened biomarkers of inflammation via diurnal cortisol in a national sample of adults
Erik L. Knight, Yanping Jiang, Jacqueline Rodriguez-Stanley, David M. Almeida, Christopher G. Engeland, Samuele Zilioli, 2021, Brain, Behavior, and Immunity on p. 206-213
The Impact of Neighborhood Environment, Social Support, andAvoidance Coping on Depressive Symptoms of Pregnant African-American Women
Carmen Giurgescu, Shannon N. Zenk, Thomas N. Templin, Christopher G. Engeland, Barbara L. Dancy, Chang Gi Park, Karen Kavanaugh, William Dieber, Dawn P. Misra, 2015, Women's Health Issues on p. 294-302
Salivary biomarkers in psychoneuroimmunology
Christopher G. Engeland, Jos A. Bosch, Nicolas Rohleder, 2019, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences on p. 58-65
Negative and positive affect as predictors of inflammation: Timing matters
Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland, Nancy L. Sin, Joshua M. Smyth, Dusti R. Jones, Erik L. Knight, Martin J. Sliwinski, David M. Almeida, Mindy J. Katz, Richard B. Lipton, Christopher G. Engeland, 2018, Brain, Behavior, and Immunity on p. 222-230
Racial discrimination predicts greater systemic inflammation in pregnant African American women
Carmen Giurgescu, Christopher G. Engeland, Thomas N. Templin, Shannon N. Zenk, Mary Dawn Koenig, Lindsey Garfield, 2016, Applied Nursing Research on p. 98-103
Relationships among psychosocial factors, biomarkers, preeclampsia, and preterm birth in African American women: A pilot
Carmen Giurgescu, Natthananporn Sanguanklin, Christopher G. Engeland, Rosemary C. White-Traut, Chang Park, Herbert L. Mathews, Linda Witek Janusek, 2015, Applied Nursing Research on p. e1-e6