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David L. Pauls is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology, Medicine, and Nursing, with a specific focus on Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their recent scholarly work includes a publication titled Eating behavior profiles in children following a 10-week lifestyle camp due to overweight/obesity and low quality of life: A latent profile analysis on eating behavior, published in 2025 in the journal Eating Behaviors. This paper reflects their research interest in childhood obesity and eating behavior patterns related to lifestyle interventions.

David L. Pauls' main topics of research encompass:

  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research

Their collaboration network includes coauthors such as Loa Clausen, Jens Meldgaard Bruun, Nancy Fredine, Kimberly A. Lynch, and Charles R. Hurst, highlighting a multidisciplinary approach in their research endeavors.

The frequent publication venue for David L. Pauls is the journal Eating Behaviors, indicative of a focus on nutritional and behavioral studies related to eating patterns.

Best Publications

  • A family study of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    D L Pauls;J P Alsobrook nd;W Goodman;S Rasmussen

  • Sequence variants in SLITRK1 are associated with Tourette's syndrome.

    Jesse F. Abelson;Kenneth Y. Kwan;Brian J. O'Roak;Danielle Y. Baek

  • Bipolar affective disorders linked to DNA markers on chromosome 11.

    Janice A. Egeland;Daniela S. Gerhard;Daniela S. Gerhard;David L. Pauls;James N. Sussex

  • Symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder

    James F. Leckman;Dorothy E. Grice;James Boardman;Heping Zhang

  • Reconstructing Native American population history

    David Emil Reich;David Emil Reich;Nick Patterson;Desmond Campbell;Desmond Campbell;Arti Tandon;Arti Tandon

  • Three diagnostic approaches to Asperger syndrome: implications for research.

    Ami Klin;David Pauls;Robert Schultz;Fred Volkmar

  • Obsessive–compulsive disorder: an integrative genetic and neurobiological perspective

    David L. Pauls;Amitai Abramovitch;Scott L. Rauch;Daniel A. Geller

  • Lifetime Prevalence, Age of Risk, and Genetic Relationships of Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders in Tourette Syndrome

    Matthew E. Hirschtritt;Paul C. Lee;David L. Pauls;Yves Dion

  • A genome-wide linkage and association scan reveals novel loci for autism

    Lauren A. Weiss;Lauren A. Weiss;Dan E. Arking;Mark J. Daly;Mark J. Daly;Aravinda Chakravarti

  • Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Evidence supporting a genetic relationship.

    David L. Pauls;Kenneth E. Towbin;James F. Leckman;Gwendolyn E. P. Zahner

  • A full genome screen for autism with evidence for linkage to a region on chromosome 7q International Molecular Genetic Study of Autism Consortium

    Anthony Bailey;Amaia Hervas;Nicola Matthews;Sarah Palferman

  • Susceptibility loci for distinct components of developmental dyslexia on chromosomes 6 and 15.

    E L Grigorenko;F B Wood;M S Meyer;L A Hart

  • Disruption of Neurexin 1 Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Hyung Goo Kim;Shotaro Kishikawa;Anne W. Higgins;Ihn Sik Seong

  • The inheritance of Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome and associated behaviors. Evidence for autosomal dominant transmission.

    David L. Pauls;James F. Leckman

  • A Family Study of Panic Disorder

    Raymond R. Crowe;Russell Noyes;David L. Pauls;Don Slymen

  • Ritual, habit, and perfectionism : The prevalence and development of compulsive-like behavior in normal young children

    David W. Evans;James F. Leckman;Alice Carter;J. Steven Reznick

  • Social anxiety in high-functioning children and adolescents with autism and Asperger syndrome.

    Sanna Kuusikko;Rachel Pollock-Wurman;Katja Jussila;Alice S. Carter

  • Long-term outcome of pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: a meta-analysis and qualitative review of the literature.

    S. E. Stewart;D. A. Geller;M. Jenike;M. Jenike;D. Pauls

  • Re-evaluation of the linkage relationship between chromosome 11p loci and the gene for bipolar affective disorder in the old order amish

    John R. Kelsoe;Edward I. Ginns;Janice A. Egeland;Daniela S. Gerhard

  • Psychiatric disorders in the relatives of probands with affective disorders. The Yale University--National Institute of Mental Health Collaborative Study.

    M M Weissman;E S Gershon;K K Kidd;B A Prusoff

Frequent Co-Authors

James F. Leckman
James F. Leckman Yale University
Mark A. Riddle
Mark A. Riddle Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Kenneth K. Kidd
Kenneth K. Kidd Yale University
John Piacentini
John Piacentini University of California, Los Angeles
James T. McCracken
James T. McCracken University of California, Los Angeles
Benjamin D. Greenberg
Benjamin D. Greenberg Brown University
Donald J. Cohen
Donald J. Cohen Yale University
Scott L. Rauch
Scott L. Rauch McLean Hospital
Abby J. Fyer
Abby J. Fyer Columbia University
Yin Yao Shugart
Yin Yao Shugart National Institutes of Health

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