Christina Elizabeth Hugenschmidt, Instructor Internal Medicine-Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine

Christina Elizabeth Hugenschmidt, Ph.D.

Instructor, Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
Center for Biomolecular Imaging
Sticht Center on Aging

Contact Information

Academic: 336-713-8570 | Department: 336-713-4190

Education & Training

B.A., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill , 1998
Ph.D., Wake Forest University , 2008
M.S., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill , 2000
Fellowship, Endocrinology,Diabetes and Metabolism, WFU School of Medicine, 2012

Memberships

Org for Human Brain Map
Society for Neuroscience

Christina Elizabeth Hugenschmidt, Ph.D.

Instructor, Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine Center for Biomolecular Imaging
Sticht Center on Aging

Research Interests

aging, neurosciences/behavior

Contact Information

Academic: 336-713-8570 | Department: 336-713-4190

Recent Publications

Sergeant S, Hugenschmidt CE, Rudock ME, Ziegler JT, Ivester P, Ainsworth HC, Vaidya D, Case LD, Langefeld CD, Freedman BI, Bowden DW, Mathias RA, Chilton FH. Differences in arachidonic acid levels and fatty acid desaturase (FADS) gene variants in African Americans and European Americans with diabetes or the metabolic syndrome. Br J Nutr. 2012;107(4):547-555.

Hugenschmidt CE, Blocker JN, Williamson JD, Nicklas BJ. Preliminary associations between cognition and glucose regulation in obese elderly at risk for type 2 diabetes [abstract]. Diabetes. 2012;61(Suppl 1):A185.

Ding J, Lovato J, Hugenschmidt CE, Ambrosius W, Horowitz K, Bryan RN, Greven C, Gerstein HC, Lazer R, Murray A, Thomas A, Launer L, Williamson J. Retinopathy in relation to cerebral ischemic lesion and cognitive decline in older patients with type 2 diabetes [abstract]. Diabetes. 2012;61(Suppl 1A):LB2.

Mathias RA, Sergeant S, Hugenschmidt CE, Ziegler JT, Ivester P, Case D, Freedman BI, Rudock ME, Langefeld CD, Bowden DW, Chilton FH, et al. The impact of FADS genetic variants on omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid metabolism in African Americans. BMC Genet. 2011;12():article 50.

Hayasaka S, Hugenschmidt CE, Laurienti PJ. A network of genes, genetic disorders, and brain areas. PLoS ONE. 2011;6(6):e20907.

Peiffer AM, Hugenschmidt CE, Laurienti PJ. Ethics in 15 min per week. Sci Eng Ethics. 2011;17(2):289-297.

Moussa MN, Vechlekar CD, Burdette JH, Steen MR, Hugenschmidt CE, Laurienti PJ. Changes in cognitive state alter human functional brain networks. Front Hum Neurosci. 2011;5():article 83.

Hugenschmidt C, Hayasaka S, Langefeld C, Freedman B, Carr JJ, Williamson J, Bowden DW. Cognitive performance is related to vascular disease and diabetes in a family study of type 2 diabetes [abstract]. Diabetes. 2011;60(Suppl 1):A225-A226.

Mozolic JL, Hugenschmidt CE, Peiffer AM, Laurienti PJ. Multisensory integration and aging In: Murray MM, Wallace MT, eds. The neural basis of multisensory processes. Boca Raton (FL): CRC Press;2011: 381-395.

Hugenschmidt CE, Hayasaka S, Peiffer AM, Laurienti PJ. Applying capacity analyses to psychophysical evaluation of multisensory interactions. Inf Fusion. 2010;11(1 Special Issue):12-20.

Bowden DW, Cox AJ, Freedman BI, Hugenschimdt CE [sic] [Hugenschmidt CE], Wagenknecht LE, Herrington D, Agarwal S, Register TC, Maldjian JA, Ng MC-Y, Hsu F-C, Langefeld CD, Williamson JD, Carr JJ. Review of the Diabetes Heart Study (DHS) family of studies: a comprehensively examined sample for genetic and epidemiological studies of type 2 diabetes and its complications. Rev Diabet Stud. 2010;7(3):188-201.

Peiffer AM, Hugenschmidt CE, Maldjian JA, Casavona R, Srikanth R, Hayasaka S, Burdette JH, Kraft RA, Laurienti PJ. Aging and the interaction of sensory cortical function and structure. Hum Brain Mapp. 2009;30(1):228-240.

Hugenschmidt CE, Mozolic JL, Laurienti PJ. Suppression of multisensory integration by modality-specific attention in aging. Neuroreport. 2009;20(4):349-353.

Hugenschmidt CE, Mozolic JL, Tan H, Kraft RA, Laurienti PJ. Age-related increase in cross-sensory noise in resting and steady-state cerebral perfusion. Brain Topogr. 2009;21(3-4):241-251.

Hugenschmidt CE, Peiffer AM, McCoy TP, Hayasaka S, Laurienti PJ. Preservation of crossmodal selective attention in healthy aging. Exp Brain Res. 2009;198(2-3):273-285.

Peiffer AM, Hugenschmidt CE, Mozolic J, Laurienti PJ. Do structural MRI analyses show evidence for cognitive reserve in the healthy aging brain? [abstract]. Gerontologist. 2009;49(Suppl 2):306.

Mozolic JL, Hugenschmidt CE, Peiffer AM, Laurienti PJ. Modality-specific selective attention attenuates multisensory integration. Exp Brain Res. 2008;184(1):39-52.

Hugenschmidt CE, Peiffer AM, Kraft RA, Casanova R, Deibler AR, Burdette JH, Maldjian JA, Laurienti PJ. Relating imaging indices of white matter integrity and volume in healthy older adults. Cereb Cortex. 2008;18(2):433-442.

Mozolic JL, Joyner D, Hugenschmidt CE, Peiffer AM, Kraft RA, Maldjian JA, Laurienti PJ. Cross-modal deactivations during modality-specific selective attention. BMC Neurol. 2008;8():article 35.

Peiffer AM, Laurienti PJ, Hugenschmidt CE. Fostering a culture of responsible lab conduct [letter]. Science. 2008;322(5905):1186.

Peiffer AM, Mozolic JL, Hugenschmidt CE, Laurienti PJ. Age-related multisensory enhancement in a simple audiovisual detection task. Neuroreport. 2007;18(10):1077-1081.

Hayasaka S, Peiffer AM, Hugenschmidt CE, Laurienti PJ. Power and sample size calculation for neuroimaging studies by non-central random field theory. Neuroimage. 2007;37(3):721-730.