Christopher A. Crawford

Medicine · Indiana University

Cardiac Health and Mental Health Language, Metaphor, and Cognition LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy Mental Health Treatment and Access Sleep and related disorders

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Active years

Publishing since 2015

Research summary

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Christopher A. Crawford studies the connections between mental health and physical health, with a focus on how conditions like depression and insomnia relate to cardiovascular and metabolic outcomes. His work also examines mental health and substance use among LGBTQ+ populations, as well as the biological markers that link mood and disease. An earlier line of work explored how people interpret visual metaphors in art and comics.

Mind-body links in cardiovascular and metabolic healthInsomnia and depression pathwaysLGBTQ+ mental health and discriminationBiomarkers of depression and inflammationMetaphor and visual cognition

Publication activity has grown noticeably in recent years, rising from about one paper per year mid-decade to a peak of six in 2024.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.8/year recently

Recent publications

Advancing implementation of behavioural medicine in cardiovascular care
Nature Reviews Psychology · 2026
Biological and Cognitive Mechanisms: Unraveling the Insomnia to Depression Pathway
Open MIND · 2025
Evaluating reduced cognitive flexibility as a link between Insomnia and future depression: A systematic review
Sleep Medicine · 2025
On the Relationship Between Online Heterosexist Discrimination and Mental Health and Substance Use Among LGBTQ+ Young Adults
Archives of Sexual Behavior · 2024
Depressive symptom clusters and biomarkers of monocyte activation, inflammation, and coagulation in people with HIV and depression
Journal of Health Psychology · 2024
Associations Between Sexual Orientation Dimensions and Cardiometabolic Diseases: Data From the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions-III (NESARC-III)
Psychosomatic Medicine · 2024
Associations between affective factors and high-frequency heart rate variability in primary care patients with depression
Journal of Psychosomatic Research · 2022
Understanding metaphor in art: Distinguishing literal giants from metaphorical challenges.
Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts · 2022
Understanding pictorial metaphor in comic book covers: A test of the contextual and structural frameworks
Studies in Comics · 2020
Structural and Contextual Frameworks: Distinguishing Literal from Metaphorical Depictions of Exaggerated Size
Digital Commons @ Butler University (Butler University) · 2018

Publishes in

Journal of Affective Disorders×2
Cardiology in the Young×1
Archives of Sexual Behavior×1
Journal of Psychosomatic Research×1
Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy×1

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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