Stephanie Caligiuri

Area of Specialization

Clinical Nutrition

Background

While conducting nutrition intervention clinical trials, Dr. Caligiuri quickly realized that behavior modification was one of the most difficult hurdles in patient care. As a result, she ventured from the discipline of Nutrition into Behavioral Neuroscience to understand how our food choices impact our brain and mental health and conversely, how our neurobiology impacts our food choices.

Education & Experience

• Adjunct Instructor, Psychology, Yeshiva University, 2023
• Instructor, Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2023
• Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2021
• PhD, Physiology & Pathophysiology, University of Manitoba, 2016
• M.Sc, Human Nutritional Sciences, University of Manitoba, 2012
• B.Sc, Human Nutritional Sciences, University of Manitoba, 2010

Courses Taught

• Science of Nutrition (KINE 350)
• Nutrition and the Brain (KINE 352)

Select Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Caligiuri SPB, Howe WM, Bali P, et al. Hedgehog-interacting protein acts in the habenula to regulate nicotine intake. 2022;119(46):e2209870119
• Caligiuri SPB, Pierce GN, Ravandi A, et al. The plasma oxylipidome links smoking status to peripheral artery disease. Metabolites 2022;12(7):627-639.
• A Duncan¹, M Heyer¹, M Ishikawa¹, SPB Caligiuri¹ et al. Habenular Tcf7l2 links nicotine addiction to diabetes. Nature 2019; 574(7778):372. ¹These authors contributed equally to the work and are listed as co-first
• L Brown, SPB Caligiuri, D Brown, et al. Clinical trials using functional foods provide unique challenges. Journal of Functional Foods 2018; 45, 233-238
• SPB Caligiuri, PJ The Promise of Genome Editing for Modeling Psychiatric Disorders. Neuropsychopharmacology 2018; 43, 223
• Caligiuri SPB and Kenny PJ. Bariatric surgery restores gut-brain signaling to reduce fat intake. Cell Metabolism. 2017 Feb 7;25(2):221-222
• Caligiuri SPB, Rodriguez-Leyva D, Aukema HM, Ravandi A, Weighell W, Guzman R, Pierce GN. Dietary Flaxseed Reduces Central Aortic Blood Pressure Without Cardiac Involvement but Through Changes in Plasma Oxylipins. Hypertension. 2016;68:1031-1038.
• Caligiuri and Pierce GN. A review of the relative efficacy of dietary, nutritional supplements, lifestyle, and drug therapies in the management of hypertension. Critical reviews in food science and nutrition 2017;57 (16), 3508-3527
• Caligiuri SPB., Lengyel C.O., Tate R.B. A Positive Light on Aging in Canada: Changes in food group consumption and associations with self-rated diet, self-rated health, life satisfaction, mental and physical functioning, over 5 years in very old Canadian men: The Manitoba Follow-Up Study. J Nutr Health Aging 2012 Aug;16(8):707-12.