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Lessons Learned From the HEALTHY Primary Prevention Trial of Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes in Middle School YouthMarsha D Marcus
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
Curr Diab Rep 13:63-71. 2013....- Shifts in BMI category and associated cardiometabolic risk: prospective results from HEALTHY studyMarsha D Marcus
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Pediatrics 129:e983-91. 2012..To evaluate shifts across BMI categories and associated changes in cardiometabolic risk factors over 2.5 years in an ethnically diverse middle school sample... 
Research training in anorexia nervosaMarsha D Marcus
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Int J Eat Disord 37:S98-S100. 2005..Obstacles to training are noted, examples of current research training and early career funding opportunities are discussed, and suggestions to support training are offered...
Obesity: is it a mental disorder?Marsha D Marcus
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Int J Eat Disord 42:739-53. 2009..Using Wakefield's conceptualization of mental disorder as "harmful mental dysfunction" (Wakefield, Am Psychol, 47, 373-388, 1992), we examined the evidence for including obesity as a mental disorder in DSM-V...- Prevalence and selected correlates of eating disorder symptoms among a multiethnic community sample of midlife womenMarsha D Marcus
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Ann Behav Med 33:269-77. 2007..There is little information about the symptoms of disordered eating or their association with psychological and physical parameters in midlife women... - Severe obesity and selected risk factors in a sixth grade multiracial cohort: the HEALTHY studyMarsha D Marcus
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
J Adolesc Health 47:604-7. 2010..Results showed that 6.9% of students were severely obese. Severe obesity was associated with elevated cardiometabolic risk and race/ethnicity. Severe obesity is common and requires preventive intervention... - Relationship of psychiatric disorders to 6-month outcomes after gastric bypassMelissa A Kalarchian
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Surg Obes Relat Dis 4:544-9. 2008..We sought to document the relationship of preoperative psychiatric disorders to the 6-month outcomes after gastric bypass... - Family-based treatment of severe pediatric obesity: randomized, controlled trialMelissa A Kalarchian
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Pediatrics 124:1060-8. 2009..We evaluated the efficacy of family-based, behavioral weight control in the management of severe pediatric obesity... - Psychiatric disorders among bariatric surgery candidates: relationship to obesity and functional health statusMelissa A Kalarchian
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Psychiatry 164:328-34; quiz 374. 2007..The present study was designed to document psychiatric disorders among candidates for weight loss surgery and to examine the relationship of psychopathology to degree of obesity and functional health status... - Relapse to smoking and postpartum weight retention among women who quit smoking during pregnancyMichele D Levine
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 20:457-9. 2012..Interventions to sustain smoking abstinence postpartum might be enhanced by components designed to minimize weight retention... - Prevalence and correlates of eating disorder co-morbidity in patients with bipolar disorderJennifer E Wildes
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Psychiatry Res 161:51-8. 2008..Screening for eating disorders in bipolar patients is warranted, as intervention may minimize distress and improve treatment outcome... - Eating disorders and illness burden in patients with bipolar spectrum disordersJennifer E Wildes
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Compr Psychiatry 48:516-21. 2007.... - Weight concerns, mood, and postpartum smoking relapseMichele D Levine
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Am J Prev Med 39:345-51. 2010..Evidence suggests that changes in depressive symptoms, perceived stress, and concerns about weight may relate to postpartum smoking relapse... - Optimizing long-term weight control after bariatric surgery: a pilot studyMelissa A Kalarchian
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Surg Obes Relat Dis 8:710-5. 2012.... - Weight gain prevention among womenMichele D Levine
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:1267-77. 2007.... - History of smoking and postcessation weight gain among weight loss surgery candidatesMichele D Levine
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 United States
Addict Behav 32:2365-71. 2007..Because patients often receive recommendations to quit smoking and lose weight prior to surgery, additional information on the impact of presurgical smoking cessation on long-tem weight control in this population is needed... - Overeating among seriously overweight children seeking treatment: results of the children's eating disorder examinationMichele D Levine
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Int J Eat Disord 39:135-40. 2006.... - The clinical utility of personality subtypes in patients with anorexia nervosaJennifer E Wildes
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 79:665-74. 2011..This study aimed to evaluate whether an approach to classifying eating disorder patients on the basis of comorbid personality psychopathology has utility in predicting treatment response and readmission in patients with AN... - Loss of control over eating predicts outcomes in bariatric surgery patients: a prospective, 24-month follow-up studyMarney A White
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, PO Box 208098, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 71:175-84. 2010..This study examined the clinical significance of loss of control (LOC) over eating in bariatric surgery patients over 24 months of prospective, multiwave follow-ups... - Depressive and manic-hypomanic spectrum psychopathology in patients with anorexia nervosaJennifer E Wildes
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Compr Psychiatry 48:413-8. 2007..We used a dimensional measure of mood psychopathology to document lifetime depressive and manic-hypomanic spectrum symptoms in 50 patients with anorexia nervosa (AN)... - Impact of addressing reasons for weight loss on behavioral weight-control outcomeMelissa A Kalarchian
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Medical Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Am J Prev Med 40:18-24. 2011..One way to improve weight control may be to place greater emphasis on the main reasons why individuals want to lose weight... - Similarities in affect, perceived stress, and weight concerns between Black and White women who quit smoking during pregnancyMichele D Levine
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 10:1543-8. 2008..In our sample of pregnant women who had quit smoking, Black and White women did not differ in mood and weight concerns, two potentially modifiable variables that may affect smoking postpartum relapse... - Psychiatric comorbidity of childhood obesityMelissa A Kalarchian
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Int Rev Psychiatry 24:241-6. 2012..Throughout the review, we emphasize that psychiatric comorbidity may be a cause or consequence of childhood obesity, or they may share common aetiological factors... - Weight concerns affect motivation to remain abstinent from smoking postpartumMichele D Levine
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA 15213, USA
Ann Behav Med 32:147-53. 2006..Although many women quit smoking during pregnancy, most resume smoking postpartum. One factor that may be important in postpartum relapse is a pregnant woman's motivation to remain abstinent after delivery... - Behavioral treatment of obesity in patients taking antipsychotic medicationsMelissa A Kalarchian
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 66:1058-63. 2005..Thus we sought to evaluate the potential utility of a behavioral weight control program for this population... - Bupropion and cognitive behavioral therapy for weight-concerned women smokersMichele D Levine
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA 15213, USA
Arch Intern Med 170:543-50. 2010..However, the efficacy of combining CONCERNS with cessation medication is unknown. We sought to determine if the combination of CONCERNS and bupropion therapy would enhance abstinence for weight-concerned women smokers... - Emotion and eating disorder symptoms in patients with anorexia nervosa: an experimental studyJennifer E Wildes
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Int J Eat Disord 45:876-82. 2012..To evaluate the effect of negative emotion on self-reported eating disorder symptoms and objectively-measured eating behavior in patients with anorexia nervosa (AN)... - CBT4BN versus CBTF2F: comparison of online versus face-to-face treatment for bulimia nervosaCynthia M Bulik
Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB 7160, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Contemp Clin Trials 33:1056-64. 2012..If not inferior, CBT4BN may be a cost-effective approach to service delivery for individuals requiring treatment for BN... - Childhood maltreatment and psychiatric morbidity in bariatric surgery candidatesJennifer E Wildes
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Obes Surg 18:306-13. 2008..e., emotional, physical, and sexual abuse and emotional and physical neglect) and Axis I and II psychiatric disorders in patients presenting for bariatric surgery... - Subjective sleep disturbance during a smoking cessation program: associations with relapseMichele L Okun
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Addict Behav 36:861-4. 2011..We describe sleep changes across three months among women in a smoking cessation program and tested whether sleep disturbances at baseline and 1 month post-quit attempt predicted smoking status at three months... - Emotion avoidance in patients with anorexia nervosa: initial test of a functional modelJennifer E Wildes
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Int J Eat Disord 43:398-404. 2010..e., mediates) the relation between depressive and anxiety symptoms and eating disorder (ED) psychopathology in this group... - Weight suppression as a predictor of weight gain and response to intensive behavioral treatment in patients with anorexia nervosaJennifer E Wildes
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA 15213, United States
Behav Res Ther 50:266-74. 2012..Future work is needed to replicate the current findings, and examine whether weight suppression predicts the course of AN following discharge from intensive treatment... - Binge eating in children and adolescentsMarsha D Marcus
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Int J Eat Disord 34:S47-57. 2003..We emphasize the need for prospective studies on the relationships among aberrant eating, weight and mood, and the inclusion of boys and girls of different ethnicities... - Development of emotion acceptance behavior therapy for anorexia nervosa: a case seriesJennifer E Wildes
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Int J Eat Disord 44:421-7. 2011..These results offer preliminary support for the potential utility of EABT in the treatment of older adolescents and adults with AN... - Dietary intake after smoking cessation among weight-concerned women smokersMichele D Levine
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 26:969-73. 2012..Future research to understand the relation between cessation and dietary intake needs to replicate and extend these findings to elucidate how, if at all, smoking cessation affects dietary intake... - Obesity in patients with bipolar disorder: a biopsychosocial-behavioral modelJennifer E Wildes
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 67:904-15. 2006..We provide a model to explicate how factors representing different levels of analysis (i.e., biology, psychology, sociodemographics, and behavior) interact to influence the onset and maintenance of obesity in bipolar disorder... - A history of depression and smoking cessation outcomes among women concerned about post-cessation weight gainMichele D Levine
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, PA 15213, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 5:69-76. 2003..Moreover, because of the prevalence of depression history among this subgroup of women smokers and its impact on early attrition, additional engagement and retention strategies may be useful... - Picky eating in adults: results of a web-based surveyJennifer E Wildes
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Int J Eat Disord 45:575-82. 2012..To gather information about picky eating and its correlates in adults and to determine whether picky eating is distinct from other eating disorder symptoms... - Binge eating among gastric bypass patients at long-term follow-upMelissa A Kalarchian
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Obes Surg 12:270-5. 2002..A second objective was to examine the relationship of postoperative binge eating to surgery outcome... - Evaluating binge eating disorder in children: development of the children's binge eating disorder scale (C-BEDS)Jennifer R Shapiro
Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Int J Eat Disord 40:82-9. 2007..The purpose of this study was to develop a brief, simple, structured, interviewer-administered scale (C-BEDS) to measure BED in children according to the provisional criteria and to compare diagnostic results with SCID diagnoses... - Bulimic symptoms, cognitions, and body dissatisfaction in women with major depressive disorderJennifer E Wildes
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
Int J Eat Disord 38:9-17. 2005.... - The return to smoking: 1-year relapse trajectories among female smokersCynthia A Conklin
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 7:533-40. 2005..Overall, the findings illustrate that, after relapsing, smokers do not follow a unitary course of smoking resumption; rather, they exhibit more variable resumption patterns than previously assumed... - incorporating dimensions into the classification of eating disorders: Three models and their implications for research and clinical practiceJennifer E Wildes
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Int J Eat Disord 46:396-403. 2013.... - Alternative methods of classifying eating disorders: models incorporating comorbid psychopathology and associated featuresJennifer E Wildes
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 33:383-94. 2013.... - Short-term outcome of psychiatric inpatients with anorexia nervosa in the current care environmentTeresa A Treat
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Int J Eat Disord 38:123-33. 2005.... - Recovery of ovarian activity in women with functional hypothalamic amenorrhea who were treated with cognitive behavior therapySarah L Berga
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Magee Womens Research Institute and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Fertil Steril 80:976-81. 2003..To determine whether cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) targeted to problematic attitudes common among women with functional hypothalamic amenorrhea would restore ovarian function... - Axis I comorbidity onset and parasuicide in women with eating disordersPrudence Wildman
Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
Int J Eat Disord 35:190-7. 2004..DISCUSSION: The eating disorder may be secondary to a mood disturbance in women with parasuicidal histories... - Differences in smoking patterns among women smokers with childhood versus later onset of weight problemsKaren K Saules
Eastern Michigan University, Psychology Department, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA
Eat Behav 8:418-22. 2007..Future longitudinal studies with prospective measures of weight, dieting, and smoking initiation may be helpful in establishing causal pathways in different subgroups of smokers... - A family history study of binge-eating disorderLisa R R Lilenfeld
Clinical Psychology Program, Argosy University, Washington, DC 22209, USA
Compr Psychiatry 49:247-54. 2008..Thus, BED and substance use disorder may share a common mechanism of familial transmission among women... - 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... - Attempted suicide and self-injury in patients diagnosed with eating disordersDaniel Stein
The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Compr Psychiatry 45:447-51. 2004..The findings of this study support an increased tendency toward impulsivity among parasuicidal ED outpatients... - Loss of control eating disorder in children age 12 years and younger: proposed research criteriaMarian Tanofsky-Kraff
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Program in Developmental Endocrinology and Genetics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Bethesda, MD 20892 1103, USA
Eat Behav 9:360-5. 2008..A rationale for the new criteria set is provided, and future research directions are proposed...
Research Grants
- Emotional Acceptance Behavior Therapy for Anorexia NervosaMarsha Marcus; Fiscal Year: 2007..Findings may lead to an efficacious treatment for AN, a critical public health problem. ..
- FAMILY-BASED TREATMENT OF SEVERE PEDIATRIC OBESITYMarsha Marcus; Fiscal Year: 2004..The proposed investigation will gather data about a serious public health problem and establish a foundation for programmatic research to develop effective treatments for an underserved population. ..
- BUPROPION AND WEIGHT CONTROL FOR SMOKING CESSATIONMarsha Marcus; Fiscal Year: 2004..This is a competing continuation of 2-R01-DA04174-13. ..
- PREVENTION OF WEIGHT GAIN IN WOMEN AGED 25 THROUGH 34Marsha Marcus; Fiscal Year: 2003..If efficacious, the interventions can be adapted for use in clinical settings. Determination of participation rates can also be used to increase the population outreach of weight gain prevention programs. ..
- Emotional Acceptance Behavior Therapy for Anorexia NervosaMarsha Marcus; Fiscal Year: 2009..Findings may lead to an efficacious treatment for AN, a critical public health problem. ..