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Overview

Janet Treasure is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly focuses on eating disorders and related psychological and medical conditions.

The main fields of study for Janet Treasure include:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine

The subfields of study encompass:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

The primary topics of their work address:

  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
  • Obesity and Health Practices

Selected recent publications by Janet Treasure include:

  • Eating disorders, 2020, The Lancet
  • Cognitive Interpersonal Model for Anorexia Nervosa Revisited: The Perpetuating Factors that Contribute to the Development of the Severe and Enduring Illness, 2020, Journal of Clinical Medicine

Other recent influential papers in related domains where Janet Treasure contributed as co-author or is closely associated include:

  • COVID-19 and implications for eating disorders, 2020, European Eating Disorders Review
  • Treatment of eating disorders: A systematic meta-review of meta-analyses and network meta-analyses, 2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Comparative efficacy and acceptability of psychological interventions for the treatment of adult outpatients with anorexia nervosa: a systematic review and network meta-analysis, 2021, The Lancet Psychiatry

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Janet Treasure include:

  • Hubertus Himmerich
  • Valentina Cardi
  • Ulrike Schmidt
  • Johanna Louise Keeler
  • Katie Rowlands

The major venues in which Janet Treasure has published extensively are:

  • European Eating Disorders Review
  • International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Eating Disorders
  • European Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • Anorexia nervosa: Valued and visible. A cognitive-interpersonal maintenance model and its implications for research and practice

    Ulrike Schmidt;Janet Treasure

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa

    Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Zeynep Yilmaz;Laura M. Thornton;Christopher Hübel;Christopher Hübel

  • The cognitive-interpersonal maintenance model of anorexia nervosa revisited: a summary of the evidence for cognitive, socio-emotional and interpersonal predisposing and perpetuating factors

    Janet Treasure;Ulrike Schmidt

  • Emotional functioning in eating disorders: attentional bias, emotion recognition and emotion regulation

    A. Harrison;S. Sullivan;K. Tchanturia;J. Treasure

  • Academy for eating disorders position paper: eating disorders are serious mental illnesses.

    Kelly L. Klump;Cynthia M. Bulik;Walter H. Kaye;Janet Treasure

  • A systematic review and meta-analysis of set-shifting ability in eating disorders.

    Marion E. Roberts;Kate Tchanturia;Daniel Stahl;Laura Southgate

  • Perfectionism in Anorexia Nervosa: Variation by Clinical Subtype, Obsessionality, and Pathological Eating Behavior

    Katherine A. Halmi;Suzanne R. Sunday;Michael Strober;Alan Kaplan

  • Medial Prefrontal Cortex Activity Associated With Symptom Provocation in Eating Disorders

    Rudolf Uher;Tara Murphy;Michael J. Brammer;Tim Dalgleish

  • Childhood obsessive-compulsive personality traits in adult women with eating disorders: defining a broader eating disorder phenotype.

    Marija Brecelj Anderluh;Kate Tchanturia;Sophia Rabe-Hesketh;Janet Treasure

  • Time trends in eating disorder incidence

    Laura Currin;Ulrike Schmidt;Janet Treasure;Hershel Jick

  • Psychological therapies for adults with anorexia nervosa: randomised controlled trial of out-patient treatments.

    Christopher Dare;Ivan Eisler;Gerald Russell;Janet Treasure

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa

    H. J. Watson;Z. Yilmaz;L. M. Thornton;C. Hubel

  • Anorexia nervosa: friend or foe?

    Lucy Serpell;Janet Treasure;John Teasdale;Victoria Sullivan

  • Poor cognitive flexibility in eating disorders: examining the evidence using the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task.

    Kate Tchanturia;Helen Davies;Marion Roberts;Amy Harrison

  • The incidence of eating disorders in the UK in 2000–2009: findings from the General Practice Research Database

    Nadia Micali;Katrina W Hagberg;Irene Petersen;Janet L Treasure

  • Emotion recognition and regulation in anorexia nervosa.

    Amy Harrison;Sarah Sullivan;Kate Tchanturia;Janet Treasure

  • A Randomized Controlled Trial of Family Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy Guided Self-Care for Adolescents With Bulimia Nervosa and Related Disorders

    Ulrike Schmidt;Sally Lee;Jennifer Beecham;Sarah Perkins

  • Is Impaired Set-Shifting an Endophenotype of Anorexia Nervosa?

    Joanna Holliday;Kate Tchanturia;Sabine Landau;David Collier

  • A controlled study of alexithymia in eating disorders

    Ulrike Schmidt;Arif Jiwany;Janet Treasure

  • Binge eating—Nature, assessment, and treatment: C. G. Fairburn and G. T. Wilson (eds): Guilford Press, New York (1993). xii + 419pp. £29.95

    Janet Treasure

  • A Guide to Treatments That Work

    Janet Treasure

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrike Schmidt
Ulrike Schmidt King's College London
Kate Tchanturia
Kate Tchanturia King's College London
Fernando Fernández-Aranda
Fernando Fernández-Aranda University of Barcelona
Nadia Micali
Nadia Micali University College London
Valentina Cardi
Valentina Cardi University of Padua
David A. Collier
David A. Collier Eli Lilly (United States)
Andreas Karwautz
Andreas Karwautz Medical University of Vienna
Cynthia M. Bulik
Cynthia M. Bulik University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Susana Jiménez-Murcia
Susana Jiménez-Murcia University of Barcelona
Michael Strober
Michael Strober University of California, Los Angeles

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