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Christopher P. Fagundes

Christopher P. Fagundes

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Psychology

D-Index
44
Citations
7473
World Ranking
6993
National Ranking
3787

Overview

Christopher P. Fagundes is affiliated with Rice University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology, with a focus on clinical psychology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, sociology and political science, and general health professions.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Health disparities and outcomes

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Christopher P. Fagundes are:

  • "Social Determinants of Cardiovascular Health: Early Life Adversity as a Contributor to Disparities in Cardiovascular Diseases," 2020, The Journal of Pediatrics
  • "Caregiver Burden and Associated Factors Among Informal Caregivers of Stroke Survivors," 2020, Journal of Neuroscience Nursing
  • "Immune and Epigenetic Pathways Linking Childhood Adversity and Health Across the Lifespan," 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Spousal caregiving, widowhood, and cognition: A systematic review and a biopsychosocial framework for understanding the relationship between interpersonal losses and dementia risk in older adulthood," 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Matters of the Heart: Grief, Morbidity, and Mortality," 2020, Current Directions in Psychological Science

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • E. Lydia Wu-Chung
  • Michelle A. Chen
  • Cobi J. Heijnen
  • Angie S. LeRoy
  • Ryan L. Brown

Christopher P. Fagundes has published frequently in specific venues such as:

  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Innovation in Aging
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Best Publications

  • Inflammation: Depression Fans the Flames and Feasts on the Heat

    Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser;Heather M. Derry;Christopher P. Fagundes

  • Stressful early life experiences and immune dysregulation across the lifespan

    Christopher P. Fagundes;Ronald Glaser;Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser

  • Pain, depression, and fatigue: loneliness as a longitudinal risk factor.

    Lisa M. Jaremka;Rebecca R. Andridge;Christopher P. Fagundes;Catherine M. Alfano

  • Loneliness predicts pain, depression, and fatigue: Understanding the role of immune dysregulation

    Lisa M. Jaremka;Christopher P. Fagundes;Ronald Glaser;Jeanette M. Bennett

  • Loneliness Promotes Inflammation During Acute Stress

    Lisa M. Jaremka;Christopher P. Fagundes;Juan Peng;Jeanette M. Bennett

  • Sympathetic and parasympathetic activity in cancer-related fatigue: More evidence for a physiological substrate in cancer survivors

    Christopher P. Fagundes;David M. Murray;Beom Seuk Hwang;Jean Philippe Gouin

  • eHealth and mHealth Interventions in the Treatment of Fatigued Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Annina Seiler;Vanessa Christina Klaas;Gerhard Tröster;Christopher P. Fagundes;Christopher P. Fagundes

  • Depressive symptoms enhance stress-induced inflammatory responses.

    Christopher P. Fagundes;Ronald Glaser;Beom Seuk Hwang;William B. Malarkey

  • Exercise, inflammation, and fatigue in cancer survivors.

    Emily C.P. LaVoy;Christopher P. Fagundes;Robert Dantzer

  • Marital distress, depression, and a leaky gut: Translocation of bacterial endotoxin as a pathway to inflammation

    Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser;Stephanie J. Wilson;Michael L. Bailey;Rebecca Andridge

  • Psychobiological research on attachment

    Lisa M. Diamond;Christopher P. Fagundes

  • Early-Life Stress and Adult Inflammation:

    Christopher P. Fagundes;Baldwin Way

  • Symptom recovery after thoracic surgery: Measuring patient-reported outcomes with the MD Anderson Symptom Inventory.

    Christopher P. Fagundes;Qiuling Shi;Ara A. Vaporciyan;David C. Rice

  • Predictors of romantic relationship formation: Attachment style, prior relationships, and dating goals

    Ines Schindler;Christopher P. Fagundes;Kyle W. Murdock

  • Attachment Style, Vagal Tone, and Empathy During Mother–Adolescent Interactions

    Lisa M. Diamond;Christopher P. Fagundes;Molly R. Butterworth

  • Lower subjective social status exaggerates interleukin-6 responses to a laboratory stressor.

    Heather M. Derry;Christopher P. Fagundes;Rebecca Andridge;Ronald Glaser

  • Obesity, Dietary Factors, Nutrition, and Breast Cancer Risk

    Annina Seiler;Michelle A. Chen;Ryan L. Brown;Christopher P. Fagundes;Christopher P. Fagundes

  • Daily stressors, past depression, and metabolic responses to high-fat meals: a novel path to obesity.

    Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser;Diane L. Habash;Christopher P. Fagundes;Rebecca Andridge

  • Relationships and Inflammation across the Lifespan: Social Developmental Pathways to Disease

    Christopher P. Fagundes;Jeanette M. Bennett;Heather M. Derry;Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser

  • Mental disorders among undocumented Mexican immigrants in high-risk neighborhoods: Prevalence, comorbidity, and vulnerabilities.

    Luz M. Garcini;Juan M. Peña;Thania Galvan;Christopher P. Fagundes

Frequent Co-Authors

Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser
Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser The Ohio State University
Lisa M. Diamond
Lisa M. Diamond University of Utah
Elizabeth A. Klonoff
Elizabeth A. Klonoff University of Central Florida
Julian F. Thayer
Julian F. Thayer University of California, Irvine
Erin C. Dunn
Erin C. Dunn Harvard University
Sheri L. Johnson
Sheri L. Johnson University of California, Berkeley
Miguel Ángel Cano
Miguel Ángel Cano The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Sheldon Cohen
Sheldon Cohen Carnegie Mellon University
Cynthia A. Berg
Cynthia A. Berg University of Utah

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