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Guido K.W. Frank is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a strong emphasis on clinical psychology and psychiatry and mental health. Additional areas of study include cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, and public health, environmental, and occupational health.

Their research topics cover:

  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Regulation of Appetite and Obesity

Guido K.W. Frank has published extensively in various venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy
  • Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Biological Psychiatry

Some of the recent papers associated with their work are:

  • Brain Structure in Acutely Underweight and Partially Weight-Restored Individuals With Anorexia Nervosa: A Coordinated Analysis by the ENIGMA Eating Disorders Working Group (2022, Biological Psychiatry)
  • Association of Brain Reward Response With Body Mass Index and Ventral Striatal-Hypothalamic Circuitry Among Young Women With Eating Disorders (2021, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • A longitudinal case series of IM ketamine for patients with severe and enduring eating disorders and comorbid treatment-resistant depression (2021, Clinical Case Reports)
  • Ketogenic diet and ketamine infusion treatment to target chronic persistent eating disorder psychopathology in anorexia nervosa: a pilot study (2022, Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity)
  • Body size overestimation in anorexia nervosa: Contributions of cognitive, affective, tactile and visual information (2021, Psychiatry Research)

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues from institutions such as:

  • U Boston
  • U York
  • U Stanford
  • U Diego
  • Megan E. Shott

Guido K.W. Frank's work spans a substantial body of research with 75 publications in psychology and its subfields, demonstrating a comprehensive investigation into eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, and related behavioral and neurological topics.

Best Publications

  • Increased dopamine D2/D3 receptor binding after recovery from anorexia nervosa measured by positron emission tomography and [11c]raclopride.

    Guido K. Frank;Ursula F. Bailer;Shannan E. Henry;Wayne Drevets

  • Altered Reward Processing in Women Recovered From Anorexia Nervosa

    Angela Wagner;Howard Aizenstein;Vijay K Venkatraman;Julie Fudge

  • Resting-State Functional Connectivity of Subgenual Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Depressed Adolescents

    Colm G. Connolly;Jing Wu;Tiffany C. Ho;Fumiko Hoeft

  • Sucrose activates human taste pathways differently from artificial sweetener

    Guido K.W. Frank;Tyson A. Oberndorfer;Alan N. Simmons;Martin P. Paulus

  • Anorexia Nervosa and Obesity are Associated with Opposite Brain Reward Response

    Guido K W Frank;Jeremy R Reynolds;Megan E Shott;Leah Jappe

  • Altered Insula Response to Taste Stimuli in Individuals Recovered from Restricting-Type Anorexia Nervosa

    Angela Wagner;Angela Wagner;Howard Aizenstein;Laura Mazurkewicz;Julie Fudge

  • Does Cerebral Blood Flow Decline in Healthy Aging? A PET Study with Partial-Volume Correction

    Carolyn Cidis Meltzer;Michael N. Cantwell;Phil J. Greer;Doron Ben-Eliezer

  • Reduced 5-HT2A receptor binding after recovery from anorexia nervosa.

    Guido K Frank;Walter H Kaye;Carolyn C Meltzer;Julie C Price

  • Altered Dopamine Activity after Recovery from Restricting-Type Anorexia Nervosa

    Walter H Kaye;Guido K.W Frank;Claire McConaha

  • Alterations in Brain Structures Related to Taste Reward Circuitry in Ill and Recovered Anorexia Nervosa and in Bulimia Nervosa

    Guido K. Frank;Megan E. Shott;Jennifer O. Hagman;Vijay A. Mittal

  • Serotonin alterations in anorexia and bulimia nervosa : New insights from imaging studies

    Walter H. Kaye;Guido K. Frank;Guido K. Frank;Ursula F. Bailer;Ursula F. Bailer;Shannan E. Henry

  • Altered insula response to sweet taste processing after recovery from anorexia and bulimia nervosa.

    Tyson A. Oberndorfer;Guido K.W. Frank;Alan N. Simmons;Angela Wagner

  • Altered Brain Serotonin 5-HT1A Receptor Binding After Recovery From Anorexia Nervosa Measured by Positron Emission Tomography and [Carbonyl11C]WAY-100635

    Ursula F. Bailer;Guido K. Frank;Shannan E. Henry;Julie C. Price

  • Altered 5-HT(2A) receptor binding after recovery from bulimia-type anorexia nervosa: relationships to harm avoidance and drive for thinness.

    Ursula F Bailer;Julie C Price;Carolyn C Meltzer;Chester A Mathis

  • Emotion-Dependent Functional Connectivity of the Default Mode Network in Adolescent Depression

    Tiffany C. Ho;Colm G. Connolly;Eva Henje Blom;Eva Henje Blom;Kaja Z. LeWinn

  • Normal brain tissue volumes after long-term recovery in anorexia and bulimia nervosa.

    Angela Wagner;Angela Wagner;Phil Greer;Ursula F. Bailer;Ursula F. Bailer;Guido K. Frank

  • Adolescents With Major Depression Demonstrate Increased Amygdala Activation

    Tony T. Yang;Alan N. Simmons;Alan N. Simmons;Scott C. Matthews;Scott C. Matthews;Susan F. Tapert

  • Amygdala response and functional connectivity during emotion regulation: a study of 14 depressed adolescents.

    Greg Perlman;Alan N. Simmons;Alan N. Simmons;Jing Wu;Kevin S. Hahn

  • Exaggerated 5-HT1A but normal 5-HT2A receptor activity in individuals ill with anorexia nervosa.

    Ursula F. Bailer;Ursula F. Bailer;Guido K. Frank;Guido K. Frank;Shannan E. Henry;Julie C. Price

  • Altered Serotonin 2A Receptor Activity in Women Who Have Recovered From Bulimia Nervosa

    Walter H. Kaye;Guido K. Frank;Carolyn C. Meltzer;Julie C. Price

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan N. Simmons
Alan N. Simmons University of California, San Diego
Julie C. Price
Julie C. Price Harvard University
Martin P. Paulus
Martin P. Paulus Laureate Institute for Brain Research
Susan F. Tapert
Susan F. Tapert University of California, San Diego
Kelly L. Klump
Kelly L. Klump Michigan State University
Scott C. Matthews
Scott C. Matthews University of California, San Diego
Julie L. Fudge
Julie L. Fudge University of Rochester
Howard J. Aizenstein
Howard J. Aizenstein University of Pittsburgh
Jason R. Tregellas
Jason R. Tregellas University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Tracey D. Wade
Tracey D. Wade Flinders University

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