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Laura M. Thornton is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research mainly spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with significant contributions to clinical psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, psychiatry and mental health, genetics, and sociology and political science.

Their work predominantly focuses on topics related to eating disorders and behaviors, obesity, physical activity, and diet, as well as obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders. Additional areas of study include child nutrition and feeding issues, the impact of technology on adolescents, genetic associations and epidemiology, and nutritional studies and diet.

Thornton has published extensively, with research appearing in the following venues:

  • UNC Libraries
  • International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • BMC Psychiatry

Some recent publications of note include:

  • "Early impact of COVID-19 on individuals with self-reported eating disorders: A survey of ~1,000 individuals in the United States and the Netherlands," 2020, International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • "Comorbidity between eating disorders and psychiatric disorders," 2022, International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • "The Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative (EDGI): study protocol," 2021, BMC Psychiatry
  • "Comparing eating disorder characteristics and treatment in self-identified competitive athletes and non-athletes from the National Eating Disorders Association online screening tool," 2020, International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • "Screen-detected disordered eating and related traits in a large population sample of females in mainland China: China Health and Nutrition Survey," 2020, International Journal of Eating Disorders

Frequent co-authors in their research include Cynthia M. Bulik, Rachael E. Flatt, Liselotte Petersen, Andreas Birgegård, and Zeynep Yılmaz. These collaborations have contributed to a substantial volume of publications in their research areas.

Best Publications

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • Comorbidity of anxiety disorders with anorexia and bulimia nervosa

    Walter H Kaye;Cynthia M Bulik;Laura Thornton;Nicole Barbarich

  • 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 meta-analyses identify multiple loci associated with smoking behavior

    Helena Furberg;Yunjung Kim;Jennifer Dackor;Eric Boerwinkle

  • Stressful life events and previous episodes in the etiology of major depression in women: an evaluation of the "kindling" hypothesis.

    Kenneth S. Kendler;Laura M. Thornton;Charles O. Gardner

  • Gender differences in the rates of exposure to stressful life events and sensitivity to their depressogenic effects.

    Kenneth S. Kendler;Laura M. Thornton;Carol A. Prescott

  • Significant Locus and Metabolic Genetic Correlations Revealed in Genome-Wide Association Study of Anorexia Nervosa.

    Laramie Duncan;Zeynep Yilmaz;Helena Gaspar;Raymond Walters

  • 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

  • Symptom Fluctuation in Eating Disorders: Correlates of Diagnostic Crossover

    Federica Tozzi;Laura M. Thornton;Kelly L. Klump;Manfred M. Fichter

  • Features associated with excessive exercise in women with eating disorders.

    Hemal Shroff;Lauren Reba;Laura M. Thornton;Federica Tozzi

  • Alcohol Use Disorder Comorbidity in Eating Disorders: A Multicenter Study.

    Cynthia M. Bulik;Kelly L. Klump;Laura Thornton;Allan S. Kaplan

  • The relation among perfectionism, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder in individuals with eating disorders.

    Katherine A. Halmi;Federica Tozzi;Laura M. Thornton;Scott Crow

  • Early impact of COVID-19 on individuals with self-reported eating disorders: A survey of ~1,000 individuals in the United States and the Netherlands.

    Jet D. Termorshuizen;Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Laura M. Thornton;Stina Borg

  • Tobacco consumption in Swedish twins reared apart and reared together.

    Kenneth S. Kendler;Laura M. Thornton;Nancy L. Pedersen;Nancy L. Pedersen

  • Personality characteristics of women before and after recovery from an eating disorder.

    Kelly L. Klump;Michael Strober;Cynthia M. Bulik;Laura Thornton

  • Suicide attempts in anorexia nervosa.

    Cynthia M. Bulik;Laura Thornton;Andréa Poyastro Pinheiro;Katherine Plotnicov

  • Significant linkage on chromosome 10p in families with bulimia nervosa.

    Cynthia M. Bulik;B. Devlin;Silviu Alin Bacanu;Laura Thornton

  • Impulse control disorders in women with eating disorders.

    Fernando Fernández-Aranda;Andréa Poyastro Pinheiro;Andréa Poyastro Pinheiro;Laura M. Thornton;Wade H. Berrettini

  • Understanding the relation between anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa in a Swedish national twin sample.

    Cynthia M. Bulik;Laura M. Thornton;Tammy L. Root;Emily M. Pisetsky

  • Facebook Use and Disordered Eating in College-Aged Women.

    Morgan Walker;Laura Thornton;Laura Thornton;Munmun De Choudhury;Jaime Teevan

  • Sexual functioning in women with eating disorders

    Andréa Poyastro Pinheiro;TJ Raney;Laura M. Thornton;Manfred M. Fichter

  • Substance Use Disorders in Women with Anorexia Nervosa

    Tammy L. Root;Andréa Poyastro Pinheiro;Laura Thornton;Michael Strober

  • Patterns of co-morbidity of eating disorders and substance use in Swedish females.

    Tammy L. Root;Emily M. Pisetsky;Laura Thornton;Paul Lichtenstein

  • The Heritability of Eating Disorders: Methods and Current Findings

    Laura M. Thornton;Suzanne E. Mazzeo;Cynthia M. Bulik

  • Suicide attempts in women with eating disorders.

    Emily M. Pisetsky;Laura M. Thornton;Paul Lichtenstein;Nancy L. Pedersen

  • Etiological overlap between obsessive-compulsive disorder and anorexia nervosa: a longitudinal cohort, multigenerational family and twin study.

    Martin Cederlöf;Laura M. Thornton;Jessica Baker;Paul Lichtenstein

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

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

  • Dissecting the shared genetic architecture of suicide attempt, psychiatric disorders and known risk factors

    Niamh Mullins;Jooeun Kang;Adrian I Campos;Adrian I Campos;Jonathan R I Coleman;Jonathan R I Coleman

Frequent Co-Authors

Cynthia M. Bulik
Cynthia M. Bulik University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nancy L. Pedersen
Nancy L. Pedersen Karolinska Institute
Janet Treasure
Janet Treasure King's College London
Hunna J. Watson
Hunna J. Watson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kelly L. Klump
Kelly L. Klump Michigan State University
Suzanne E. Mazzeo
Suzanne E. Mazzeo Virginia Commonwealth University
Alessandro Rotondo
Alessandro Rotondo University of Pisa
Pamela K. Keel
Pamela K. Keel Florida State University
Patrick F. Sullivan
Patrick F. Sullivan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hakon Hakonarson
Hakon Hakonarson Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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