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Overview

Stephen Touyz is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on the psychology and medicine fields, with a notable emphasis on clinical psychology. Touyz's work extensively covers topics related to eating disorders and associated behaviors, as well as overlapping areas such as obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders and obesity-related health practices.

The main topics addressed in Touyz's research include:

  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Obesity and Health Practices
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies

In terms of publication venues, Touyz frequently contributes to journals such as:

  • Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity
  • Nutrients
  • International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Some of the recent papers by Touyz include:

  • Eating disorders in the time of COVID-19, 2020, Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Psychiatric and medical comorbidities of eating disorders: findings from a rapid review of the literature, 2022, Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Risk factors for eating disorders: findings from a rapid review, 2023, Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Eating disorder outcomes: findings from a rapid review of over a decade of research, 2023, Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Epidemiology of eating disorders: population, prevalence, disease burden and quality of life informing public policy in Australia-a rapid review, 2023, Journal of Eating Disorders

Touyz collaborates frequently with several researchers. Notable co-authors include:

  • Phillipa Hay
  • Sarah Maguire
  • Jane Miskovic-Wheatley
  • Phillip Aouad
  • Emma Bryant

The scientist's work spans multiple subfields, with a strong concentration in clinical psychology but also contributing to public health, sociology, pharmacy, and psychiatry and mental health.

Best Publications

  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of eating disorders

    Phillipa Hay;Phillipa Hay;David Chinn;David Forbes;Sloane Madden

  • The co‐morbidity of eating disorders and anxiety disorders: a review

    Jessica M. Swinbourne;Stephen W. Touyz

  • Parent-child interaction therapy: a comparison of standard and abbreviated treatments for oppositional defiant preschoolers.

    Reginald David Nixon;Lynne Sweeney;Deborah B Erickson;Stephen W Touyz

  • The comorbidity between eating disorders and anxiety disorders: Prevalence in an eating disorder sample and anxiety disorder sample:

    Jessica Swinbourne;Caroline Hunt;Maree Abbott;Janice Russell

  • Treating severe and enduring anorexia nervosa: a randomized controlled trial

    S. Touyz;D. Le Grange;H. Lacey;P. Hay

  • A comparison of eating, exercise, shape, and weight related symptomatology in males with muscle dysmorphia and anorexia nervosa.

    Stuart B. Murray;Elizabeth Rieger;Tom Hildebrandt;Lisa Karlov

  • Disordered eating and exercise: Development and preliminary validation of the compulsive exercise test (CET)

    Lorin Taranis;Stephen Touyz;Caroline Meyer

  • Psychiatric and medical comorbidities of eating disorders: findings from a rapid review of the literature

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  • Muscle dysmorphia and the DSM-V conundrum: Where does it belong? A review paper

    Stuart B Murray;Elizabeth Rieger;Stephen W Touyz;Yolanda De la Garza Garcia

  • Excessive physical activity in dieting disorder patients: proposals for a supervised exercise program.

    Peter J. V. Beumont;Brenden Arthur;Janice D. Russell;Stephen W. Touyz

  • Risk factors for eating disorders: findings from a rapid review

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  • Burden and Health-Related Quality of Life of Eating Disorders, Including Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), in the Australian Population

    Phillipa Hay;Deborah Mitchison;Deborah Mitchison;Abraham Ernesto Lopez Collado;David Alejandro González-Chica

  • Eating and Body Image Disturbances Across Cultures: A Review.

    Nerissa L. Soh;Stephen W. Touyz;Lois J. Surgenor

  • Eating disorders in the time of COVID-19

    Stephen W Touyz;Hubert Lacey;Phillipa Hay;Phillipa Hay

  • Attentional biases in eating disorders: A visual probe detection procedure

    Elizabeth Rieger;David E. Schotte;Stephen W. Touyz;P. J. V. Beumont

  • Negative mood-induced overeating in obese binge eaters: an experimental study.

    J Chua;Stephen Touyz;A J Hill

  • Treatment for severe and enduring anorexia nervosa: A review

    Phillipa J Hay;Stephen Touyz;Rishi Sud

  • A randomized controlled trial of in-patient treatment for anorexia nervosa in medically unstable adolescents.

    S. Madden;J. Miskovic-Wheatley;A. Wallis;M. Kohn

  • Treatment of anorexia nervosa

    P.J.V Beumont;J.D Russell;S.W Touyz

  • A randomised controlled trial of three psychological treatments for anorexia nervosa.

    S. Byrne;Tracey D. Wade;P. Hay;S. Touyz

  • Extending the Masculinity Hypothesis: An Investigation of Gender Role Conformity, Body Dissatisfaction, and Disordered Eating in Young Heterosexual Men

    Scott Griffiths;Stuart B. Murray;Stephen Touyz

  • Development of an instrument to assess readiness to recover in anorexia nervosa.

    Elizabeth Rieger;Stephen Touyz;David Schotte;Peter Beumont

Frequent Co-Authors

Phillipa Hay
Phillipa Hay Western Sydney University
Deborah Mitchison
Deborah Mitchison University of Technology Sydney
Ross D. Crosby
Ross D. Crosby University of North Dakota
Elizabeth Rieger
Elizabeth Rieger Australian National University
Stuart B. Murray
Stuart B. Murray University of California, Los Angeles
Jonathan Mond
Jonathan Mond University of Tasmania
Scott Griffiths
Scott Griffiths University of Melbourne
Daniel Le Grange
Daniel Le Grange University of California, San Francisco
Amanda Sainsbury
Amanda Sainsbury University of Western Australia
Tracey D. Wade
Tracey D. Wade Flinders University

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