Chris Engeland

Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health and Nursing

Chris Engeland

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 Elderly Immunoglobulin A Psychoneuroimmunology Interleukin 10 Premature Birth Interleukin 1 Performance

Most 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