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3050
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health, National Academy of Medicine
  • 1988 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1982 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Albert J. Stunkard was affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research focused primarily on topics related to obesity, physical activity, diet, culinary culture and tourism, and eating disorders and behaviors.

The scientist's main field of study was Medicine, with a specialization in subfields such as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Food Science, and Clinical Psychology.

Among their recent publications were:

  • Shared and unique genetic and environmental influences on binge eating and night eating: A Swedish twin study, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Prevalence of Night Eating in Obese and Nonobese Twins, 2020, UNC Libraries

Frequent co-authors included:

  • Finn Rasmussen
  • Cynthia M. Bulik
  • Tammy L. Root
  • Laura M. Thornton
  • Ann Karin Lindroos

Their publications were predominantly found in the venue UNC Libraries, with two publications recorded there.

Albert J. Stunkard received several awards during their career:

  • Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health, National Academy of Medicine, 2004
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), 1988
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1982

Best Publications

  • The three-factor eating questionnaire to measure dietary restraint, disinhibition and hunger

    Albert J. Stunkard;Samuel Messick

  • Socioeconomic Status and Obesity: A Review of the Literature

    Jeffery Sobal;Albert J. Stunkard

  • Use of the Danish Adoption Register for the study of obesity and thinness.

    Albert J. Stunkard;Thorkild I. A. Sørensen;Fini Schulsinger

  • The body-mass index of twins who have been reared apart.

    Albert J. Stunkard;Jennifer R. Harris;Nancy L. Pedersen;Gerald E. McClearn

  • An adoption study of human obesity.

    Albert J. Stunkard;Thorkild I.A. Sørensen;Thorkild I.A. Sørensen;Thorkild I.A. Sørensen;Craig Hanis;Craig Hanis;Craig Hanis;Thomas W. Teasdale;Thomas W. Teasdale;Thomas W. Teasdale

  • Long-term maintenance of weight loss: current status.

    Robert W. Jeffery;Leonard H. Epstein;G. Terence Wilson;Adam Drewnowski

  • Mood disorders in the medically ill: scientific review and recommendations.

    Dwight L. Evans;Dennis S. Charney;Dennis S. Charney;Lydia Lewis;Robert N. Golden

  • Binge eating disorder: A multisite field trial of the diagnostic criteria

    Robert L. Spitzer;Michael Devlin;B. Timothy Walsh;Deborah Hasin

  • Binge eating disorder: its further validation in a multisite study.

    Robert L. Spitzer;Susan Z. Yanovski;Thomas Wadden;Rena Wing

  • A twin study of human obesity

    Albert J. Stunkard;Terryl T. Foch;Zdenek Hrubec

  • Getting worse: the stigmatization of obese children.

    Janet D. Latner;Albert J. Stunkard

  • Depression and obesity.

    Albert J Stunkard;Myles S Faith;Kelly C Allison

  • Randomized Trial of Lifestyle Modification and Pharmacotherapy for Obesity

    Thomas A. Wadden;Robert I. Berkowitz;Leslie G. Womble;David B. Sarwer

  • The accuracy of self-reported weights.

    A J Stunkard;J M Albaum

  • The night-eating syndrome; a pattern of food intake among certain obese patients.

    Albert J. Stunkard;William J. Grace;Harold G. Wolff

  • Eating patterns and obesity.

    Albert J. Stunkard

  • Treatment of obesity by very low calorie diet, behavior therapy, and their combination: a five-year perspective.

    Wadden Ta;Sternberg Ja;Letizia Ka;Stunkard Aj

  • Behavioral and neuroendocrine characteristics of the night-eating syndrome.

    Grethe Støa Birketvedt;Jon Florholmen;Johan Sundsfjord;Bjarne Østerud

  • The Results of Treatment for Obesity: A Review of the Literature and Report of a Series

    Albert Stunkard;Mavis McLAREN-HUME

  • Parental feeding attitudes and styles and child body mass index: prospective analysis of a gene-environment interaction.

    Myles S. Faith;Robert I. Berkowitz;Robert I. Berkowitz;Virginia A. Stallings;Virginia A. Stallings;Julia Kerns

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas A. Wadden
Thomas A. Wadden University of Pennsylvania
Virginia A. Stallings
Virginia A. Stallings Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Kelly C. Allison
Kelly C. Allison University of Pennsylvania
Kelly D. Brownell
Kelly D. Brownell Duke University
Gary D. Foster
Gary D. Foster University of Pennsylvania
Janet D. Latner
Janet D. Latner University of Hawaii at Manoa
Cynthia M. Bulik
Cynthia M. Bulik University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thomas W. Teasdale
Thomas W. Teasdale University of Copenhagen
Thorkild I. A. Sørensen
Thorkild I. A. Sørensen University of Copenhagen
David F. Dinges
David F. Dinges University of Pennsylvania

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