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Overview

Kate Tchanturia is a researcher affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily focuses on psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, with significant contributions to clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and psychiatry and mental health.

The main topics explored in Tchanturia's research include eating disorders and behaviors, autism spectrum disorder research, child nutrition and feeding issues, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, family and disability support research, child development and digital technology, and body image and dysmorphia studies.

Tchanturia has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • European Eating Disorders Review
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Neuropsychiatrie
  • Nutrients

Some of the more recent papers co-authored or contributed to by Tchanturia include:

  • "COVID-19 and implications for eating disorders" (2020, European Eating Disorders Review)
  • "For Me, the Anorexia is Just a Symptom, and the Cause is the Autism": Investigating Restrictive Eating Disorders in Autistic Women (2020, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders)
  • The Role of Emotion Regulation in Eating Disorders: A Network Meta-Analysis Approach (2022, Frontiers in Psychiatry)
  • 'It's not that they don't want to access the support... it's the impact of the autism': The experience of eating disorder services from the perspective of autistic women, parents and healthcare professionals (2021, Autism)
  • Gender differences in mental health prevalence in autism (2020, Advances in Autism)

Tchanturia frequently collaborates with several co-authors. The most frequent collaborators include:

  • Jenni Leppänen
  • Zhuo Li
  • Daniel Halls
  • Jess Kerr-Gaffney
  • Steven Williams

Best Publications

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

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

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

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

  • Reduced specificity of autobiographical memory and depression: the role of executive control.

    Tim Dalgleish;J. Mark G. Williams;Ann-Marie J. Golden;Nicola Perkins

  • 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

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

    Kate Tchanturia;Helen Davies;Marion Roberts;Amy Harrison

  • Emotion recognition and regulation in anorexia nervosa.

    Amy Harrison;Sarah Sullivan;Kate Tchanturia;Janet Treasure

  • Investigating alexithymia in autism: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Emma Kinnaird;Catherine Stewart;Kate Tchanturia

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

    Joanna Holliday;Kate Tchanturia;Sabine Landau;David Collier

  • COVID-19 and implications for eating disorders.

    Fernando Fernández‐Aranda;Fernando Fernández‐Aranda;Miquel Casas;Miquel Casas;Laurence Claes;Laurence Claes;Danielle Clark Bryan

  • The socio-emotional processing stream in Anorexia Nervosa

    Anna Oldershaw;David Hambrook;Daniel Stahl;Kate Tchanturia

  • Set shifting in anorexia nervosa: an examination before and after weight gain, in full recovery and relationship to childhood and adult OCPD traits

    K. Tchanturia;R.G. Morris;M.Brecelj Anderluh;D.A. Collier

  • Alexithymia in eating disorders: Systematic review and meta-analyses of studies using the Toronto Alexithymia Scale.

    Heather Westwood;Jess Kerr-Gaffney;Daniel Stahl;Kate Tchanturia;Kate Tchanturia

  • Development and Psychometric Validation of the EDE-QS, a 12 Item Short Form of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q)

    Nicole Gideon;Nick Hawkes;Jonathan Mond;Jonathan Mond;Rob Saunders

  • Cognitive flexibility in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

    Kate Tchanturia;Marija Brecelj Anderluh;Robin G. Morris;Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

  • Exploring the neurocognitive signature of poor set-shifting in anorexia and bulimia nervosa

    Marion E. Roberts;Kate Tchanturia;Janet L. Treasure

  • Central coherence in eating disorders: a systematic review

    C. Lopez;K. Tchanturia;D. Stahl;J. Treasure

  • Attentional bias, emotion recognition, and emotion regulation in anorexia: state or trait?

    Amy Harrison;Kate Tchanturia;Janet Treasure

  • Cognitive Flexibility and Clinical Severity in Eating Disorders

    Kate Tchanturia;Amy Harrison;Helen Davies;Marion Roberts

  • Aspects of social cognition in anorexia nervosa: affective and cognitive theory of mind.

    Tamara Anne Russell;Ulrike Schmidt;Liz Doherty;Vicky Young

  • Neural Correlates of Impaired Cognitive-Behavioral Flexibility in Anorexia Nervosa

    Arne Zastrow;Stefan Kaiser;Christoph Stippich;Stephan Walther

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet Treasure
Janet Treasure King's College London
Ulrike Schmidt
Ulrike Schmidt King's College London
Fernando Fernández-Aranda
Fernando Fernández-Aranda University of Barcelona
David A. Collier
David A. Collier Eli Lilly (United States)
Iain C. Campbell
Iain C. Campbell King's College London
Daniel Stahl
Daniel Stahl King's College London
Roser Granero
Roser Granero Autonomous University of Barcelona
Robin G. Morris
Robin G. Morris King's College London
Andreas Karwautz
Andreas Karwautz Medical University of Vienna
William Mandy
William Mandy University College London

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