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Susana Jiménez-Murcia

Susana Jiménez-Murcia

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Psychology

D-Index
70
Citations
19855
World Ranking
2271
National Ranking
20

Overview

Susana Jiménez-Murcia is affiliated with the Instituto de Salud Carlos III in Spain. Their research contributions span several fields, primarily focusing on psychology and medicine, with an emphasis on clinical psychology.

Their published works include both broad and specialized topics within mental health, particularly addressing eating disorders, gambling behavior, and related psychopathologies. Key subjects of their research are eating disorders and behaviors, gambling behavior and treatments, sexuality, behavior, and technology, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, the impact of technology on adolescents, personality disorders and psychopathology, and obesity related to physical activity and diet.

Several recent papers illustrate the scope of their work. These include:

  • COVID-19 and implications for eating disorders (2020), published in European Eating Disorders Review
  • Genetic identification of cell types underlying brain complex traits yields insights into the etiology of Parkinson's disease (2020), published in Nature Genetics
  • Dissecting the Shared Genetic Architecture of Suicide Attempt, Psychiatric Disorders, and Known Risk Factors (2021), published in Biological Psychiatry
  • Expert appraisal of criteria for assessing gaming disorder: an international Delphi study (2021), published in Addiction
  • A review of binge eating disorder and obesity (2020), published in Neuropsychiatrie

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Fernando Fernández-Aranda, Roser Granero, Isabel Baenas, Gemma Mestre-Bach, and José M. Menchón.

Susana Jiménez-Murcia's research has been disseminated across various academic journals, with recurrent publications in:

  • European Eating Disorders Review
  • Journal of Gambling Studies
  • Nutrients
  • Journal of Behavioral Addictions
  • European Psychiatry

The main fields of study where their work is concentrated are:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Subfields that represent prominent aspects of their research output include:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Best Publications

  • 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 association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa

    H. J. Watson;Z. Yilmaz;L. M. Thornton;C. Hubel

  • Mirror extreme BMI phenotypes associated with gene dosage at the chromosome 16p11.2 locus

    Sébastien Jacquemont;Alexandre Reymond;Flore Zufferey;Louise Harewood

  • COVID-19 and implications for eating disorders.

    Fernando Fernández‐Aranda;Fernando Fernández‐Aranda;Miquel Casas;Miquel Casas;Laurence Claes;Laurence Claes;Danielle Clark Bryan

  • Video games as a complementary therapy tool in mental disorders: PlayMancer, a European multicentre study

    Fernando Fernández-Aranda;Susana Jiménez-Murcia;Juan J. Santamaría;Katarina Gunnard

  • Executive Functions Profile in Extreme Eating/Weight Conditions: From Anorexia Nervosa to Obesity

    Ana B. Fagundo;Rafael de la Torre;Susana Jiménez-Murcia;Susana Jiménez-Murcia;Zaida Agüera

  • Association of irisin with fat mass, resting energy expenditure, and daily activity in conditions of extreme body mass index.

    María Pardo;Ana B. Crujeiras;María Amil;Zaida Aguera

  • Lifetime obesity in patients with eating disorders: increasing prevalence, clinical and personality correlates.

    Cynthia Villarejo;Fernando Fernández-Aranda;Fernando Fernández-Aranda;Susana Jiménez-Murcia;Susana Jiménez-Murcia;Eva Peñas-Lledó

  • Mindfulness-Based Interventions for the Treatment of Substance and Behavioral Addictions: A Systematic Review.

    Marta Sancho;Marta De Gracia;Rita C. Rodríguez;Núria Mallorquí-Bagué;Núria Mallorquí-Bagué

  • Expert appraisal of criteria for assessing gaming disorder: an international Delphi study.

    Jesús Castro-Calvo;Daniel L. King;Dan J. Stein;Matthias Brand

  • Impulse control disorders in eating disorders: clinical and therapeutic implications

    Fernando Fernández-Aranda;Susana Jiménez-Murcia;Eva M. Álvarez-Moya;Roser Granero

  • Emotion Regulation as a Transdiagnostic Feature Among Eating Disorders: Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Approach.

    Núria Mallorquí-Bagué;Núria Mallorquí-Bagué;Cristina Vintró-Alcaraz;Isabel Sánchez;Isabel Sánchez;Nadine Riesco;Nadine Riesco

  • Food addiction in a Spanish sample of eating disorders: DSM-5 diagnostic subtype differentiation and validation data.

    Roser Granero;Roser Granero;Ines Hilker;Zaida Agüera;Susana Jiménez-Murcia;Susana Jiménez-Murcia

  • Buying-shopping disorder—is there enough evidence to support its inclusion in ICD-11?

    Astrid Müller;Matthias Brand;Laurence Claes;Zsolt Demetrovics

  • Reliability, validity, and classification accuracy of a Spanish translation of a measure of DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for pathological gambling.

    S. Jiménez-Murcia;R. Stinchfield;E. Álvarez-Moya;N. Jaurrieta

  • Neural Network Alterations Across Eating Disorders: A Narrative Review of fMRI Studies.

    Trevor Steward;Jose M Menchon;Susana Jiménez-Murcia;Carles Soriano-Mas

  • Delay Discounting of Reward and Impulsivity in Eating Disorders: From Anorexia Nervosa to Binge Eating Disorder

    Trevor Steward;Trevor Steward;Gemma Mestre-Bach;Gemma Mestre-Bach;Cristina Vintró-Alcaraz;Zaida Agüera;Zaida Agüera

  • Age of onset in pathological gambling: clinical, therapeutic and personality correlates.

    Susana Jiménez-Murcia;Susana Jiménez-Murcia;Eva M. Álvarez-Moya;Randy D Stinchfield;Fernando Fernández-Aranda;Fernando Fernández-Aranda

  • GWAS Meta-Analysis of Suicide Attempt: Identification of 12 Genome-Wide Significant Loci and Implication of Genetic Risks for Specific Health Factors.

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  • Effect of A Very Low-Calorie Ketogenic Diet on Food and Alcohol Cravings, Physical and Sexual Activity, Sleep Disturbances, and Quality of Life in Obese Patients

    Ana I Castro;Diego Gomez-Arbelaez;Ana B Crujeiras;Roser Granero

  • Suicide in patients treated for obsessive–compulsive disorder: A prospective follow-up study.

    P. Alonso;P. Alonso;P. Alonso;C. Segalàs;E. Real;A. Pertusa

  • Clinical implications of insight assessment in obsessive-compulsive disorder

    Pino Alonso;José M. Menchón;Cinto Segalàs;Nuria Jaurrieta

  • 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

Fernando Fernández-Aranda
Fernando Fernández-Aranda University of Barcelona
Roser Granero
Roser Granero Autonomous University of Barcelona
Zaida Agüera
Zaida Agüera University of Barcelona
Gemma Mestre-Bach
Gemma Mestre-Bach Universidad Internacional De La Rioja
Trevor Steward
Trevor Steward University of Melbourne
Mónica Gómez-Peña
Mónica Gómez-Peña Bellvitge University Hospital
Carles Soriano-Mas
Carles Soriano-Mas University of Barcelona
Eva Penelo
Eva Penelo Autonomous University of Barcelona
Gema Frühbeck
Gema Frühbeck University of Navarra
María del Pino Alonso Ortega
María del Pino Alonso Ortega Bellvitge University Hospital

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