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Overview

Nancy Zucker is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research primarily spans across psychology and medicine, with a substantial focus on clinical psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Infant Health and Development

Nancy Zucker has contributed to multiple scholarly outlets, frequently publishing in venues such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Physiology & Behavior
  • Journal of Eating Disorders

Their recent papers include:

  • The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Eating Disorders (2023), American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Rigidity and Sensory Sensitivity: Independent Contributions to Selective Eating in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults (2020), Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
  • Brain Structure in Acutely Underweight and Partially Weight-Restored Individuals With Anorexia Nervosa: A Coordinated Analysis by the ENIGMA Eating Disorders Working Group (2022), Biological Psychiatry
  • Weight-Related Behaviors of Children with Obesity during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021), Childhood Obesity
  • Do interoceptive accuracy and interoceptive sensibility predict emotion regulation? (2020), Psychological Research

Among their collaborators, frequent co-authors include:

  • Katharine L. Loeb
  • Cynthia M. Bulik
  • Alannah Rivera-Cancel
  • Martha E. Gagliano
  • Julia K. Nicholas

Nancy Zucker has also been involved in book publishing, with one title released by Cambridge University Press:

  • Treating Functional Abdominal Pain in Children (2023)

Best Publications

  • Stress Management Improves Long-Term Glycemic Control in Type 2 Diabetes

    Richard S. Surwit;Miranda A.L. van Tilburg;Nancy Zucker;Cynthia C. McCaskill

  • Anorexia nervosa and autism spectrum disorders: Guided investigation of social cognitive endophenotypes.

    Nancy L. Zucker;Molly Losh;Cynthia M. Bulik;Kevin S. LaBar

  • The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Eating Disorders

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  • Does childhood bullying predict eating disorder symptoms? A prospective, longitudinal analysis

    William E. Copeland;Cynthia M. Bulik;Cynthia M. Bulik;Nancy Zucker;Dieter Wolke

  • Body image assessment for obesity (BIA-O) : development of a new procedure

    DA Williamson;LG Womble;NL Zucker;DL Reas

  • Psychological and Psychosocial Impairment in Preschoolers With Selective Eating

    Nancy Zucker;William Copeland;Lauren Franz;Kimberly Carpenter

  • Duration of illness predicts outcome for bulimia nervosa: A long-term follow-up study

    Deborah L. Reas;Donald A. Williamson;Donald A. Williamson;Corby K. Martin;Nancy L. Zucker

  • Psychosocial variables associated with binge eating in obese males and females.

    Leslie G. Womble;Donald A. Williamson;Corby K. Martin;Nancy L. Zucker

  • Psychological Inflexibility and Symptom Expression in Anorexia Nervosa

    Rhonda M. Merwin;C. Alix Timko;Ashley A. Moskovich;Krista Konrad Ingle

  • Classification of eating disturbance in children and adolescents: Proposed changes for the DSM-V

    T. Bravender;R. Bryant-Waugh;D. Herzog;D. Katzman

  • Altered Insula Activity during Visceral Interoception in Weight-Restored Patients with Anorexia Nervosa

    Kara L Kerr;Kara L Kerr;Scott E Moseman;Jason A Avery;Jerzy Bodurka;Jerzy Bodurka

  • Two novel treatments to reduce overeating in overweight children: a randomized controlled trial.

    Kerri N. Boutelle;Nancy L. Zucker;Carol B Peterson;Sarah A. Rydell

  • Associations between child emotional eating and general parenting style, feeding practices, and parent psychopathology.

    Abby Braden;Kyung Rhee;Carol B. Peterson;Sarah A. Rydell

  • Classification of child and adolescent eating disturbances. Workgroup for Classification of Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents (WCEDCA).

    Bravender T;Bryant-Waugh R;Herzog D;Katzman D

  • Changes in depressive symptoms and glycemic control in diabetes mellitus.

    Anastasia Georgiades;Nancy Zucker;Kelli E. Friedman;Christopher J. Mosunic

  • Interoceptive awareness in eating disorders: Distinguishing lack of clarity from non-acceptance of internal experience

    Rhonda M. Merwin;Nancy L. Zucker;Jennie L. Lacy;Camden A. Elliott

  • Building evidence for the use of descriptive subtypes in youth with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder.

    Mark L. Norris;Wendy Spettigue;Nicole G. Hammond;Debra K. Katzman

  • Altered social reward and attention in anorexia nervosa

    Karli K. Watson;Donna M. Werling;Nancy L. Zucker;Michael L. Platt

  • The Effect of the Home Environment on Physical Activity and Dietary Intake in Preschool Children

    Truls Østbye;Rahul Malhotra;Marissa Stroo;Cheryl Lovelady

  • Parent-focused change to prevent obesity in preschoolers: results from the KAN-DO study.

    Truls Østbye;Katrina M. Krause;Marissa Stroo;Cheryl A. Lovelady

  • Stress Management improves long-term glycemic control in type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

    C. Edwards;M. Feinglos;James D. Lane;C. McCaskill

Frequent Co-Authors

Cynthia M. Bulik
Cynthia M. Bulik University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kerri N. Boutelle
Kerri N. Boutelle University of California, San Diego
Kevin S. LaBar
Kevin S. LaBar Duke University
Donald A. Williamson
Donald A. Williamson Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Carol B. Peterson
Carol B. Peterson University of Minnesota
Daniel Le Grange
Daniel Le Grange University of California, San Francisco
Kamryn T. Eddy
Kamryn T. Eddy Harvard University
C. Alix Timko
C. Alix Timko Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Molly Losh
Molly Losh Northwestern University
Scott H. Kollins
Scott H. Kollins Duke University

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