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Genomes and GenesSpecies | Kamryn T EddySummaryAffiliation: Boston University Country: USA Publications
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Personality pathology and substance abuse in eating disorders: a longitudinal studyHeather Thompson-Brenner
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Int J Eat Disord 41:203-8. 2008..This study investigates longitudinal associations between personality and substance use...- A multidimensional meta-analysis of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for obsessive-compulsive disorderKamryn T Eddy
Department of Psychology, Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 24:1011-30. 2004..More research on combined pharmacological and psychotherapeutic interventions is also indicated... - Eating pathology in East African women: the role of media exposure and globalizationKamryn T Eddy
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 195:196-202. 2007..Future research should replicate these findings to clarify the role of Western media in the development of ED pathology... - Eating disorder pathology among overweight treatment-seeking youth: clinical correlates and cross-sectional risk modelingKamryn T Eddy
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University, 648 Beacon Street, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Behav Res Ther 45:2360-71. 2007.... - Should bulimia nervosa be subtyped by history of anorexia nervosa? A longitudinal validationKamryn T Eddy
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Int J Eat Disord 40:S67-71. 2007..To determine whether a past diagnosis of anorexia nervosa (AN) predicts longitudinal course and outcome among women with bulimia nervosa (BN)... 
A personality classification system for eating disorders: a longitudinal studyHeather Thompson-Brenner
Massachusetts General Hospital, 2 Longfellow Place, Suite 200, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Compr Psychiatry 49:551-60. 2008..Longitudinal outcomes for personality subtypes have not been examined...- Oxytocin secretion is associated with severity of disordered eating psychopathology and insular cortex hypoactivation in anorexia nervosaElizabeth A Lawson
Neuroendocrine Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 97:E1898-908. 2012..The relationships between oxytocin, food-motivation neurocircuitry, and disordered eating psychopathology have not been investigated in humans... 
Leptin levels are associated with decreased depressive symptoms in women across the weight spectrum, independent of body fatElizabeth A Lawson
Neuroendocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 76:520-5. 2012..We investigated the relationship between leptin and ghrelin levels and symptoms of depression, anxiety and perceived stress in women across the weight spectrum...- Diagnostic classification of eating disorders in children and adolescents: how does DSM-IV-TR compare to empirically-derived categories?Kamryn T Eddy
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 49:277-87; quiz 293. 2010.... - Diagnostic crossover in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa: implications for DSM-VKamryn T Eddy
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2 Longfellow Place, Suite 200, Boston, MA 02214, USA
Am J Psychiatry 165:245-50. 2008..This study was designed to examine diagnostic crossover longitudinally in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa to inform the validity of the DSM-IV-TR eating disorders classification system... - An investigation of the joint longitudinal trajectories of low body weight, binge eating, and purging in women with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosaJason M Lavender
Department of Psychology, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York, USA
Int J Eat Disord 44:679-86. 2011..To describe the longitudinal course of three core eating disorder symptoms-low body weight, binge eating, and purging-in women with anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) using a novel statistical approach... - Depression and eating disorders: treatment and courseDavid Mischoulon
Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Affect Disord 130:470-7. 2011..We examined the course of major depressive disorder (MDD) and predictors of MDD recovery and relapse in a longitudinal sample of women with eating disorders (ED)... - Elevated pre-morbid weights in bulimic individuals are usually surpassed post-morbidly: implications for perpetuation of the disorderJena A Shaw
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Int J Eat Disord 45:512-23. 2012..To determine how often patients diagnosed with bulimia nervosa (BN) surpass their highest pre-morbid weight during the course of their disorder... - Eating disorder not otherwise specified in adolescentsKamryn T Eddy
Massachusetts General Hospital, 2 Longfellow Place, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47:156-64. 2008..To examine the frequency, type, and clinical severity of eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS) in adolescents seeking treatment through an outpatient eating disorders service... - Longitudinal comparison of anorexia nervosa subtypesKamryn T Eddy
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Int J Eat Disord 31:191-201. 2002..The high crossover rate in our sample from ANR to ANBP suggests that ANR represents a phase in the course of AN rather than a distinct subtype... - Predictors of mortality in eating disordersPamela K Keel
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 1320 William James Hall, 33 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:179-83. 2003..However, potential predictors of mortality, such as comorbid psychiatric illnesses, remain unclear. We sought to determine mortality ratios and predictors of fatal outcome in women diagnosed as having anorexia or bulimia nervosa... - Empirical identification and validation of eating disorder phenotypes in a multisite clinical sampleKamryn T Eddy
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02214, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 197:41-9. 2009..Future research should examine longitudinal stability of empirically-derived phenotypes and incremental validity of alternative classification schema to inform DSM-V... - Impulsivity and personality variables in adolescents with eating disordersChristina L Boisseau
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 197:251-9. 2009.... - Weight suppression predicts time to remission from bulimia nervosaMichael R Lowe
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 79:772-6. 2011.... - Subtyping children and adolescents with loss of control eating by negative affect and dietary restraintAndrea B Goldschmidt
Department of Psychology, Washington University, 660 South Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8134, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Behav Res Ther 46:777-87. 2008..Little research has explored the validity and clinical utility of subtyping youth along these dimensions... - Strategic memory in adults with anorexia nervosa: are there similarities to obsessive compulsive spectrum disorders?Bonnie J Sherman
Center for Excellence in Women s Health, Boston University Medical Center, and Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Int J Eat Disord 39:468-76. 2006..This study evaluated nonverbal strategic memory in AN outpatients using an approach previously applied to OC spectrum disorders... - Weight suppression predicts weight change over 5 years in bulimia nervosaDavid B Herzog
Harris Center, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2 Longfellow Place, Ste 200, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Psychiatry Res 177:330-4. 2010..Because weight gain could spur radical dieting that maintains BN, these results have important treatment implications... - Personality subtypes in adolescents with eating disorders: validation of a classification approachHeather Thompson-Brenner
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Department of Psychology, Boston University, 648 Beacon St, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 49:170-80. 2008..The current study investigated whether similar personality prototypes exist in adolescents with EDs, and whether these personality prototypes show relationships to external correlates indicative of diagnostic validity... - Appetite-regulating hormones cortisol and peptide YY are associated with disordered eating psychopathology, independent of body mass indexElizabeth A Lawson
Neuroendocrine Unit, Bulfinch 457B Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Eur J Endocrinol 164:253-61. 2011..We therefore studied the relationship between orexigenic and anorexigenic hormones and disordered eating psychopathology in women across a range of weights... - Predictors of treatment utilization among women with anorexia and bulimia nervosaPamela K Keel
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
Am J Psychiatry 159:140-2. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: Women with more severe pathology have higher treatment utilization rates. This pattern may explain the seeming lack of treatment efficacy for eating disorders outside of randomized controlled studies... - Clarifying criteria for cognitive signs and symptoms for eating disorders in DSM-VAnne E Becker
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Int J Eat Disord 42:611-9. 2009..This article reviews literature relevant to challenges in clinical ascertainment of cognitively-based diagnostic criteria of anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) to examine whether revision might enhance their clinical utility... - A multisite investigation of binge eating behaviors in children and adolescentsMarian Tanofsky-Kraff
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Program in Developmental Endocrinology and Genetics, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814 4712, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 75:901-13. 2007..Findings may provide an intervening point to prevent excessive weight gain and eating disorders...
Research Grants
- Eating pathology among youth with obesityKamryn Eddy; Fiscal Year: 2005..The five components to be examined include negative affect, perfectionism, internalization of a thin body ideal, parent modeling of eating attitudes/behaviors, and appearance-related teasing. ..