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Overview

Howard Steiger is affiliated with the Douglas Mental Health University Institute in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a significant concentration in clinical psychology. Other areas of study include psychiatry and mental health, sociology and political science, public health, environmental and occupational health, and applied psychology.

Their work extensively covers topics related to eating disorders and behaviors, child nutrition and feeding issues, obesity, physical activity, diet, and the impact of technology on adolescents. Additionally, they have contributed to research on COVID-19 and mental health, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, and behavioral health and interventions.

Howard Steiger has published research papers in several venues, with a notable presence in the International Journal of Eating Disorders. Other publication venues include The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, Journal of Eating Disorders, World Psychiatry, and The Lancet Psychiatry.

Recent papers by Steiger include:

  • Eating Disorders, Heredity and Environmental Activation: Getting Epigenetic Concepts into Practice, 2020, Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • In-person versus virtual therapy in outpatient eating-disorder treatment: A COVID-19 inspired study, 2021, International Journal of Eating Disorders

Their research collaborations often involve repeated co-authorship with colleagues such as Mimi Israël, Linda Booij, Lea Thaler, Nathalie Auger, and Annie St-Hilaire.

Best Publications

  • Impulsivity in women with eating disorders: Problem of response inhibition, planning, or attention?

    Lindsay Rosval;Howard Steiger;Kenneth Bruce;Mimi Israël

  • Hypersensitivity to social interactions in bulimic syndromes: relationship to binge eating.

    Howard Steiger;Lise Gauvin;Sheila Jabalpurwala;Jean R. Séguin

  • Personality subtyping and bulimia nervosa: psychopathological and genetic correlates

    Stephen A. Wonderlich;Ross D. Crosby;Thomas Joiner;Carol B. Peterson

  • Eating disorders and the serotonin connection: state, trait and developmental effects.

    Howard Steiger

  • Structural magnetic resonance imaging in eating disorders: a systematic review of voxel-based morphometry studies

    Frederique Van den Eynde;Masashi Suda;Hannah Broadbent;Sébastien Guillaume;Sébastien Guillaume

  • Binge antecedents in bulimic syndromes: an examination of dissociation and negative affect.

    Marla J. Engelberg;Howard Steiger;Lise Gauvin;Stephen A. Wonderlich

  • Methylation of the glucocorticoid receptor gene promoter in bulimic women: associations with borderline personality disorder, suicidality, and exposure to childhood abuse.

    Howard Steiger;Howard Steiger;Benoit Labonté;Patricia Groleau;Patricia Groleau;Gustavo Turecki

  • The relationship of self-esteem and body esteem in women with and without eating disorders.

    Beverley K. Mendelson;Lindsay McLaren;Lise Gauvin;Howard Steiger

  • Validation d'une échelle d'attitudes alimentaires auprès d'une population québécoise francophone

    Pierre Leichner;Howard Steiger;Guadalupe Puentes-Neuman;Michel Perreault

  • Testing a dual-process family model in understanding the development of eating pathology: a structural equation modeling analysis

    Freedom Leung;Alex Schwartzman;Howard Steiger

  • The 5HTTLPR polymorphism, psychopathologic symptoms, and platelet [3H-] paroxetine binding in bulimic syndromes.

    Howard Steiger;Ridha Joober;Mimi Israël;Simon N. Young

  • Impulsivity and compulsivity in bulimia nervosa.

    Scott G. Engel;Stephanie J. Corneliussen;Stephen A. Wonderlich;Ross D. Crosby

  • Prospective study of outcome in bulimics as a function of axis‐II comorbidity: Long‐term responses on eating and psychiatric symptoms

    Howard Steiger;Stephen Stotland

  • Deep Brain Stimulation in the Subgenual Cingulate Cortex for an Intractable Eating Disorder

    Mimi Israël;Howard Steiger;Theodore Kolivakis;Leslie McGregor

  • Implications of impulsive and affective symptoms for serotonin function in bulimia nervosa.

    Howard Steiger;S. N. Young;N. M. K. Ng Ying Kin;N. Koerner

  • Methylation of BDNF in women with bulimic eating syndromes: associations with childhood abuse and borderline personality disorder.

    Lea Thaler;Lise Gauvin;Ridha Joober;Patricia Groleau

  • Severe and enduring anorexia nervosa: Update and observations about the current clinical reality.

    Stephen A. Wonderlich;Cynthia M. Bulik;Cynthia M. Bulik;Ulrike Schmidt;Howard Steiger;Howard Steiger

  • The relationship of momentary anger and impulsivity to bulimic behavior.

    Scott G. Engel;Justin J. Boseck;Ross D. Crosby;Stephen A. Wonderlich

  • Phenotypes, Endophenotypes, and Genotypes in Bulimia Spectrum Eating Disorders:

    Howard Steiger;Kenneth R Bruce

  • Impulsivity, dietary control and the urge to binge in bulimic syndromes.

    Howard Steiger;Pascale M. Lehoux;Lise Gauvin

  • Association of Serotonin and Cortisol Indices With Childhood Abuse in Bulimia Nervosa

    Howard Steiger;Lise Gauvin;Mimi Israël;Naomi Koerner

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda Booij
Linda Booij Concordia University
Fernando Fernández-Aranda
Fernando Fernández-Aranda University of Barcelona
Roser Granero
Roser Granero Autonomous University of Barcelona
Susana Jiménez-Murcia
Susana Jiménez-Murcia University of Barcelona
Stephen A. Wonderlich
Stephen A. Wonderlich University of North Dakota
Joel Paris
Joel Paris McGill University
Cynthia M. Bulik
Cynthia M. Bulik University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kelly L. Klump
Kelly L. Klump Michigan State University
Norbert Schmitz
Norbert Schmitz McGill University
Mónica Gómez-Peña
Mónica Gómez-Peña Bellvitge University Hospital

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