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Karen S. Mitchell

Karen S. Mitchell

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Psychology

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45
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8699
World Ranking
6664
National Ranking
3614

Overview

Karen S. Mitchell is affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their primary research field is psychology, with a strong focus on clinical psychology. The scientist's work spans several subfields including clinical psychology, pharmacy, social psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The research topics Karen S. Mitchell addresses include eating disorders and behaviors, obesity and health practices, obesity, physical activity, and diet, posttraumatic stress disorder research, resilience and mental health, genetic associations and epidemiology, and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders.

Recent publications by Karen S. Mitchell include:

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder and eating disorders: maintaining mechanisms and treatment targets, 2021, Eating Disorders
  • Eating disorder measures in a sample of military veterans: A focus on gender, age, and race/ethnicity, 2021, Psychological Assessment
  • The impact of comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder on eating disorder treatment outcomes: Investigating the unified treatment model, 2021, International Journal of Eating Disorders

Other related publications co-authored by collaborators in their research network include work on eating disorders and overweight/obesity in veterans published in 2020 in Current Obesity Reports, and genetic aspects of anorexia nervosa in Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science in 2021, though these were led by other authors.

The frequent publication venues where Karen S. Mitchell's work appears are:

  • Psychological Assessment
  • Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy
  • UNC Libraries
  • International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Journal of General Internal Medicine

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Karen S. Mitchell include:

  • Brian N. Smith
  • Dawne Vogt
  • Shannon Kehle-Forbes
  • Rachel L. Zelkowitz
  • Kelsey N. Serier

Best Publications

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • A critical evaluation of the complex PTSD literature: implications for DSM-5.

    Patricia A. Resick;Patricia A. Resick;Michelle J. Bovin;Amber L. Calloway;Alexandra M. Dick

  • Comorbidity of partial and subthreshold ptsd among men and women with eating disorders in the national comorbidity survey-replication study †

    Karen S. Mitchell;Suzanne E. Mazzeo;Michelle R. Schlesinger;Timothy D. Brewerton

  • A Pilot Study of a Randomized Controlled Trial of Yoga as an Intervention for PTSD Symptoms in Women

    Karen S. Mitchell;Karen S. Mitchell;Alexandra M. Dick;Dawn M. DiMartino;Brian N. Smith;Brian N. Smith

  • The impact of dissociation on PTSD treatment with cognitive processing therapy

    Patricia A. Resick;Patricia A. Resick;Michael K. Suvak;Michael K. Suvak;Benjamin D. Johnides;Karen S. Mitchell;Karen S. Mitchell

  • Innovative interventions for disordered eating: evaluating dissonance-based and yoga interventions.

    Karen S. Mitchell;Suzanne E. Mazzeo;Sarah M. Rausch;Kathryn L. Cooke

  • Differences in food intake and exercise by smoking status in adolescents.

    Diane B. Wilson;Brian N. Smith;Ilene S. Speizer;Melanie K. Bean

  • Associations among postpartum depression, eating disorders, and perfectionism in a population-based sample of adult women

    Suzanne E. Mazzeo;Margarita C.T. Slof-Op't Landt;Ian Richard Jones;Karen Mitchell

  • Exposure to Interpersonal Violence and Its Associations With Psychiatric Morbidity in a U.S. National Sample: A Gender Comparison.

    Katherine M. Iverson;Alexandra Dick;Katie A. McLaughlin;Brian N. Smith

  • Examining Mechanisms of Change in a Yoga Intervention for Women: The Influence of Mindfulness, Psychological Flexibility, and Emotion Regulation on PTSD Symptoms

    Alexandra M. Dick;Barbara L. Niles;Barbara L. Niles;Amy E. Street;Amy E. Street;Dawn M. DiMartino

  • Eating disorder symptomatology and substance use disorders: prevalence and shared risk in a population based twin sample.

    Jessica H. Baker;Karen S. Mitchell;Karen S. Mitchell;Michael C. Neale;Michael C. Neale;Kenneth S. Kendler;Kenneth S. Kendler

  • Family Study of Borderline Personality Disorder and Its Sectors of Psychopathology

    John G. Gunderson;Mary C. Zanarini;Lois W. Choi-Kain;Karen S. Mitchell

  • Eating disorders in military and veteran men and women: A systematic review.

    Brooke A. Bartlett;Karen S. Mitchell;Karen S. Mitchell

  • The Effect of a Yoga Intervention on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Risk in Veteran and Civilian Women with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

    Shivani M. Reddy;Alexandra M. Dick;Megan R. Gerber;Karen S. Mitchell

  • An evaluation of the reliability and construct validity of eating disorder measures in white and black women.

    Nichole R. Kelly;Karen S. Mitchell;Rachel W. Gow;Sara E. Trace

  • Network models of DSM-5 posttraumatic stress disorder: Implications for ICD-11.

    Karen S Mitchell;Erika J Wolf;Michelle J Bovin;Lewina O Lee

  • Binge eating and psychological distress in ethnically diverse undergraduate men and women.

    Karen S Mitchell;Suzanne E Mazzeo

  • Binge eating disorder: a symptom-level investigation of genetic and environmental influences on liability.

    K. S. Mitchell;M. C. Neale;C. M. Bulik;S. H. Aggen

  • Psychosocial factors associated with non-smoking adolescents' intentions to smoke

    Brian N. Smith;Melanie K. Bean;Karen S. Mitchell;Ilene S. Speizer

  • Genome wide meta-analysis identifies genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Cynthia M. Bulik
Cynthia M. Bulik University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Erika J. Wolf
Erika J. Wolf Boston University
Suzanne E. Mazzeo
Suzanne E. Mazzeo Virginia Commonwealth University
Hunna J. Watson
Hunna J. Watson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Mark W. Miller
Mark W. Miller Boston University
Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud
Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud University of Oslo
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Stefan Herms
Stefan Herms University of Basel
Hakon Hakonarson
Hakon Hakonarson Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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