Chris Engeland

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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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

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

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

Insomnia symptoms are associated with elevated C-reactive protein in young adults

Danica C. Slavish, Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland, Christopher G. Engeland, Daniel J. Taylor, Orfeu M. Buxton, 2018, Psychology and Health on p. 1396-1415