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National Ranking
2003

Overview

Michael R. Lowe is affiliated with Drexel University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and medicine, with a significant volume of work in clinical psychology and public health, environmental and occupational health. Other relevant subfields in their research include applied psychology, pharmacy, and physiology.

The main topics addressed in Lowe's research encompass a range of behavioral and health-related areas. These include:

  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Obesity and Health Practices
  • Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions

Lowe has contributed articles to several prominent publication venues. Frequent outlets for their work include:

  • Appetite
  • International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Obesity
  • International Journal of Obesity
  • European Eating Disorders Review

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Michael R. Lowe demonstrate a focus on weight regulation, eating disorders, and treatment interventions. Notable papers include:

  • "Describing the Weight-Reduced State: Physiology, Behavior, and Interventions," 2021, Obesity
  • "A new, developmentally-sensitive measure of weight suppression," 2021, Appetite
  • "New insights in the mechanisms of weight-loss maintenance: Summary from a Pennington symposium," 2023, Obesity
  • "Prediction of eating disorder treatment response trajectories via machine learning does not improve performance versus a simpler regression approach," 2021, International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • "The Renfrew Unified Treatment for Eating Disorders and Comorbidity: Long-Term Effects of an Evidence-Based Practice Implementation in Residential Treatment," 2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry

Their research collaborations frequently involve several coauthors, including:

  • Simar Singh
  • Michael Rosenbaum
  • Fengqing Zhang
  • Hallie Espel-Huynh
  • James F. Boswell

Best Publications

  • Hedonic hunger: a new dimension of appetite?

    Michael R. Lowe;Meghan L. Butryn

  • The effects of dieting on eating behavior: A three-factor model.

    Michael R. Lowe

  • The Power of Food Scale. A new measure of the psychological influence of the food environment.

    Michael R. Lowe;Meghan L. Butryn;Elizabeth R. Didie;Rachel A. Annunziato

  • Psychometric analysis of the Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire-R21: results from a large diverse sample of obese and non-obese participants.

    J C Cappelleri;A G Bushmakin;R A Gerber;N K Leidy

  • Are dietary restraint scales valid measures of acute dietary restriction? Unobtrusive observational data suggest not

    Eric Stice;Melissa Fisher;Michael R. Lowe

  • A comparison of acceptance- and control-based strategies for coping with food cravings: An analog study

    Evan M. Forman;Kimberly L. Hoffman;Kathleen B. McGrath;James D. Herbert

  • Eating motives and the controversy over dieting: eating less than needed versus less than wanted.

    Michael R. Lowe;Allen S. Levine

  • Evaluating the Power of Food Scale in obese subjects and a general sample of individuals: development and measurement properties.

    J C Cappelleri;A G Bushmakin;R A Gerber;N K Leidy

  • Multiple types of dieting prospectively predict weight gain during the freshman year of college

    Michael R. Lowe;Rachel A. Annunziato;Jessica Tuttman Markowitz;Elizabeth Didie

  • Self-regulation of energy intake in the prevention and treatment of obesity: is it feasible?

    Michael R. Lowe

  • Acceptance and commitment therapy as a novel treatment for eating disorders: an initial test of efficacy and mediation.

    Adrienne Juarascio;Jena Shaw;Evan Forman;C. Alix Timko

  • The mind your health project: a randomized controlled trial of an innovative behavioral treatment for obesity.

    E.M. Forman;M.L. Butryn;A.S. Juarascio;L.E. Bradley

  • Are dietary restraint scales valid measures of moderate- to long-term dietary restriction? Objective biological and behavioral data suggest not.

    Eric Stice;Jamie A. Cooper;Dale A. Schoeller;Karyn Tappe

  • Dieting and restrained eating as prospective predictors of weight gain

    Michael R. Lowe;Sapna D. Doshi;Shawn N. Katterman;Emily H. Feig

  • Emotional reactivity, emotional eating, and obesity: A naturalistic study

    Michael R. Lowe;Edwin B. Fisher

  • A self-report measure of social skill

    Michael R. Lowe;Joseph R. Cautela

  • Restraint, dieting, and the continuum model of bulimia nervosa

    Michael R. Lowe;David H. Gleaves;Rosalie T. DiSimone-Weiss;Cornelius Furgueson

  • Continuity and discontinuity models of bulimia nervosa: a taxometric investigation.

    David H. Gleaves;Michael R. Lowe;Alicia C. Snow;Bradley A. Green

  • An intervention study targeting energy and nutrient intake in worksite cafeterias.

    Michael R. Lowe;Karyn A. Tappe;Meghan L. Butryn;Rachel A. Annunziato

  • Brain activation in restrained and unrestrained eaters: an fMRI study.

    Maria Coletta;Steven Platek;Feroze B. Mohamed;J. Jason van Steenburgh

  • Stress-induced eating in restrained eaters may not be caused by stress or restraint.

    Michael R. Lowe;Tanja V.E. Kral

Frequent Co-Authors

Meghan L. Butryn
Meghan L. Butryn Drexel University
Eric Stice
Eric Stice Stanford University
Evan M. Forman
Evan M. Forman Drexel University
Adrienne S. Juarascio
Adrienne S. Juarascio Drexel University
Heather Thompson-Brenner
Heather Thompson-Brenner Boston University
C. Alix Timko
C. Alix Timko Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
James D. Herbert
James D. Herbert University of New England
David H. Gleaves
David H. Gleaves University of South Australia
John Kounios
John Kounios Drexel University
Maria Råstam
Maria Råstam Lund University

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