Chris Engeland
Associate 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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Inflammation Depression African Americans Cytokines Psychology Health Saliva Lipopolysaccharides Immunity C Reactive Protein Racism Social Support Biomarkers Interleukin 6 Evidence Gender Loneliness Anti Inflammatory Agents Immunoglobulin A Elderly Psychoneuroimmunology Interleukin 10 Premature Birth Interleukin 1 PerformanceMost Recent Publications
Inflammatory biomarkers and sex hormones interact to predict ecologically-assessed cognitive performance
Christopher Engeland, GSA
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
Diminished Cellular Immunity and Executive Cognitive Functioning Among Middle-Aged and Elderly Adults
Kyle W. Murdock, Raymond P. Stowe, Christopher G. Engeland, 2022, Psychosomatic Medicine on p. 679-684
Psychosocial and behavioral factors affecting inflammation among pregnant African American women
Nadia Saadat, Liying Zhang, Suzanne Hyer, Vasantha Padmanabhan, Jennifer Woo, Christopher G. Engeland, Dawn P. Misra, Carmen Giurgescu, 2022, Brain, Behavior, and Immunity - Health
The longitudinal connection between depressive symptoms and inflammation: Mediation by sleep quality
Sunmi Song, Natasha N. DeMeo, David M. Almeida, Marzieh Majd, Christopher G. Engeland, Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland, 2022, PLoS One
Depressive symptoms and other negative psychological states relate to ex vivo inflammatory responses differently for men and women: Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence
Erik L. Knight, Marzieh Majd, J Graham, Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland, J Smyth, M Smyth, Martin Sliwinski, Christopher G. Engeland, 2022, Physiology and Behavior on p. 9
The Association Between Loneliness and Inflammation: Findings From an Older Adult Sample
Karina Van Bogart, Christopher G. Engeland, Martin J. Sliwinski, K Harrington, Karra Harrington, E Knight, E Knight, M Sliwinski, Ruixue Zhaoyang, Stacey B. Scott, Jennifer Graham, J Graham-Engeland, 2022, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Neighborhoods, Racism, Stress, and Preterm Birth Among African American Women: A Review
C. Giurgescu, D. P. Misra, J. C. Slaughter-Acey, S. L. Gillespie, A. L. Nowak, E. Dove-Medows, C. G. Engeland, S. N. Zenk, T. A. Lydic, S. Sealy-Jefferson, J. Ford, S. Drury, P. Stemmer, 2022, Western Journal of Nursing Research on p. 101-110
Individuals with both higher recent negative affect and physical pain have higher levels of C-reactive protein
Jennifer Graham-Engeland, J Graham, Natasha DeMeo, Dusti Jones, Ambika Mathur, Joshua M. Smyth, Martin Sliwinski, Megan McGrady, Richard Lipton, Mindy Katz, Christopher Engeland, 2022, Brain, Behavior, and Immunity - Health on p. 9
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
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
Inflammation and the dimensions of depression: A review
Marzieh Majd, Erika F.H. Saunders, Christopher G. Engeland, 2020, Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology
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
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
The anti-oxidative, anti-inflammatory, and protective effect of S100A8 in endotoxemic mice
Ying Sun, Yu Lu, Christopher G. Engeland, Sara C. Gordon, Herve Y. Sroussi, 2013, Immunochemistry on p. 443-9
Salivary biomarkers in psychoneuroimmunology
Christopher G. Engeland, Jos A. Bosch, Nicolas Rohleder, 2019, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences on p. 58-65
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
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
Distinct inflammatory response patterns are evident among men and women with higher depressive symptoms
Marzieh Majd, J Graham, Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland, Joshua Smyth, Martin J. Sliwinski, Richard Lipton, Mindy Katz, Christopher G. Engeland, 2018, Physiology and Behavior on p. 108-115