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Lucy Serpell is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with a concentrated focus on clinical psychology and psychiatry and mental health. They have also contributed research related to public health, environmental and occupational health, cognitive neuroscience, and sociology and political science.

The main topics Serpell investigates include eating disorders and behaviors, child nutrition and feeding issues, autism spectrum disorder research, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, obesity, physical activity and diet, the impact of technology on adolescents, and dietary effects on health.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Serpell include:

  • "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
  • Further development of the 12-item EDE-QS: identifying a cut-off for screening purposes (2020), BMC Psychiatry
  • "We Have to Try to Find a Way, a Clinical Bridge" - autistic adults' experience of accessing and receiving support for mental health difficulties: A systematic review and thematic meta-synthesis (2022), Clinical Psychology Review
  • Assessing the impact of First Episode Rapid Early Intervention for Eating Disorders on duration of untreated eating disorder: A multi-centre quasi-experimental study (2020), European Eating Disorders Review
  • The First Episode Rapid Early Intervention for Eating Disorders - Upscaled study: Clinical outcomes (2021), Early Intervention in Psychiatry

Serpell's frequent co-authors include Ulrike Schmidt, Karina Allen, Michaela Flynn, Victoria Mountford, and Amelia Austin.

They have published extensively in several key journals, including:

  • European Eating Disorders Review (6 publications)
  • Journal of Eating Disorders (5 publications)
  • BMC Psychiatry (3 publications)
  • Frontiers in Psychology (2 publications)
  • BJPsych Open (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • A meta-analysis of risk factors for post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents

    David Trickey;Andy P. Siddaway;Richard Meiser-Stedman;Lucy Serpell;Lucy Serpell

  • Anorexia nervosa: friend or foe?

    Lucy Serpell;Janet Treasure;John Teasdale;Victoria Sullivan

  • 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

  • Systematic Review: Are Overweight and Obese Individuals Impaired on Behavioural Tasks of Executive Functioning?

    Sian Fitzpatrick;Sam Gilbert;Lucy Serpell

  • The Maudsley Outpatient Study of Treatments for Anorexia Nervosa and Related Conditions (MOSAIC): Comparison of the Maudsley Model of Anorexia Nervosa Treatment for Adults (MANTRA) With Specialist Supportive Clinical Management (SSCM) in Outpatients With Broadly Defined Anorexia Nervosa: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Ulrike Schmidt;Nicholas Magill;Bethany Renwick;Alexandra Keyes

  • Shame in Women with a History of Eating Disorders

    Nicholas A. Troop;Steven Allan;Lucy Serpell;Janet L. Treasure

  • The Egosyntonic Nature of Anorexia: An Impediment to Recovery in Anorexia Nervosa Treatment.

    Eva C. Gregertsen;William Mandy;Lucy Serpell

  • Self-reported parental abuse relates to autobiographical memory style in patients with eating disorders

    Tim Dalgleish;Kate Tchanturia;Lucy Serpell;Saskia Hems

  • "For Me, the Anorexia is Just a Symptom, and the Cause is the Autism": Investigating Restrictive Eating Disorders in Autistic Women.

    Janina Brede;Charlotte Babb;Catherine Jones;Mair Elliott

  • Bulimia nervosa: friend or foe? The pros and cons of bulimia nervosa.

    Lucy Serpell;Janet Treasure

  • Anorexia nervosa: Obsessive–compulsive disorder, obsessive–compulsive personality disorder, or neither?

    Lucy Serpell;Alison Livingstone;Marc Neiderman;Bryan Lask

  • A further exploration of disgust in eating disorders

    Nicholas A. Troop;Janet L. Treasure;Lucy Serpell

  • Parental decision-making in childhood vaccination

    Lucy Serpell;John Green

  • The development of the P-CAN, a measure to operationalize the pros and cons of anorexia nervosa

    Lucy Serpell;Lucy Serpell;John D. Teasdale;Nicholas A. Troop;Janet Treasure

  • Further development of the 12-item EDE-QS: identifying a cut-off for screening purposes.

    Katarina Prnjak;Deborah Mitchison;Deborah Mitchison;Scott Griffiths;Jonathan Mond;Jonathan Mond

  • A systematic review of the effects of experimental fasting on cognition.

    EM Benau;NC Orloff;EA Janke;L Serpell

  • “We Have to Try to Find a Way, a Clinical Bridge” - autistic adults' experience of accessing and receiving support for mental health difficulties: A systematic review and thematic meta-synthesis

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  • The MOSAIC study - comparison of the Maudsley Model of Treatment for Adults with Anorexia Nervosa (MANTRA) with Specialist Supportive Clinical Management (SSCM) in outpatients with anorexia nervosa or eating disorder not otherwise specified, anorexia nervosa type: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

    Ulrike Schmidt;Beth Renwick;Anna Lose;Martha Kenyon

  • The First Episode Rapid Early Intervention for Eating Disorders - Upscaled study: Clinical outcomes.

    Amelia Austin;Michaela Flynn;James Shearer;Mike Long

  • Assessing the impact of First Episode Rapid Early Intervention for Eating Disorders on duration of untreated eating disorder: A multi-centre quasi-experimental study.

    Michaela Flynn;Amelia Austin;Katie Lang;Karina Allen;Karina Allen

  • Motivational interventions in the eating disorders: what is the evidence?

    Lucy Knowles;Alisa Anokhina;Lucy Serpell

  • Perceptual illusions in eating disorders: rigid and fluctuating styles.

    Kate Tchanturia;Lucy Serpell;Nicholas Troop;Janet Treasure

  • Two-year follow-up of the MOSAIC trial: A multicenter randomized controlled trial comparing two psychological treatments in adult outpatients with broadly defined anorexia nervosa.

    Ulrike Hermine Schmidt;Elizabeth Gabrielle Ryan;Savani Bartholdy;Bethany Gwen Renwick

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet Treasure
Janet Treasure King's College London
Ulrike Schmidt
Ulrike Schmidt King's College London
Karina L. Allen
Karina L. Allen King's College London
Nicholas A. Troop
Nicholas A. Troop Plymouth University
Glenn Waller
Glenn Waller University of Sheffield
Kate Tchanturia
Kate Tchanturia King's College London
Bryan Lask
Bryan Lask Great Ormond Street Hospital
Jonathan Mond
Jonathan Mond University of Tasmania
Caroline Meyer
Caroline Meyer University of Warwick
William Mandy
William Mandy University College London

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