Regina Casper

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emerita

Academic Appointments

Professor Emeritus-Hourly, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

Eating disorders ; anorexia nervosa: endocrinology and subtypes; risk factors for restricting anorexia nervosa: personality traits and starvation-induced mental and behavioral activation. Womens health: depression with atypical physical symptoms; depression during pregnancy and postnatal depression: effects on the offspring.

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Profiles With Related Publications

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Fahim Abbasi

Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
Clinical Focus
Prediabetes and insulin resistance, Internal Medicine

182 Total Publications
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W. Stewart Agras

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emeritus
Research Interests
My research is focused on disorders of human feeding including the eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. Ongoing or recently completed studies include: A controlled trial of the implementation of interpersonal psychotherapy for eating disorders and depression on college campuses across the U.S. A multisite controlled study of two types of family therapy for the treatment of adolescent anorexia nervosa. Early prevemtion of overweight and obesity.

203 Total Publications
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Bruce Arnow, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (General Psychiatry and Psychology - Adult)
Clinical Focus
Depression, Psychotherapy, Clinical Psychology
Research Interests
Current research interests include treatment outcome for major depression, particularly treatment refractory and chronic forms of major depression, as well as mediators and moderators of outcome; the epidemiology of chronic pain and depression; relationships between child maltreatment and adult sequelae, including psychiatric, medical and health care utilization.

129 Total Publications
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Joan Baran

Clinical Associate Professor (Affiliated), Peds/Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
Clinical Focus
Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology

1 Total Publications
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Christine Blasey

Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

74 Total Publications
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Cara Bohon

Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development
Research Interests
My research interests have focused on the neural bases of eating disorders. I am particularly interested in the way emotion and reward is processed in the brain and how that may contribute to eating behavior and food restriction. I hope to eventually translate biological research findings into treatments.

84 Total Publications
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Charles DeBattista

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (General Psychiatry and Psychology - Adult)
Clinical Focus
Psychiatry, Clinical Psychopharmacology, Resistant Depression, Neuromodulation
Research Interests
Treatment resistant depression.

Novel biological interventions in the treatment of mental illness.

Anti-glucocorticoid drugs in the treatment of mood disorders.

Augmentation strategies in the treatment of depression.

126 Total Publications
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Neville H. Golden M.D.

Marron and Mary Elizabeth Kendrick Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus
Clinical Focus
Adolescent Medicine, Feeding and Eating Disorders, Bone Health
Research Interests
My research has focused on the medical complications of adolescents with eating disorders. My specific area of study has been the etiology and implications of amenorrhea in adolescents with eating disorders, in particular the management of reduced bone mass and osteoporosis in anorexia nervosa.

171 Total Publications
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Ian Gotlib

David Starr Jordan Professor
Research Interests
Current interests include social, cognitive, and biological factors in affective disorders; neural and cognitive processing of emotional stimuli and reward by depressed persons; behavioral activation and anhedonia in depression; social, emotional, and biological risk factors for depression in children.

584 Total Publications
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Lawrence D. Hammer

Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics) at the Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital, Emeritus
Clinical Focus
Pediatrics, General, Pediatrics
Research Interests
Dr Hammer has had a longstanding interest in factors influencing the development of childhood obesity. In particular, his studies have focused on early determinants of eating behavior, physical activity, and parenting behavior in relation to early feeding decisions and parental influences on diet and eating. With the current epidemic of child obesity and it's comorbidities, he is currently involved in the development of protocols for adolescent bariatric surgery.

54 Total Publications
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Terence Ketter

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Psychopharmacology), Emeritus
Research Interests
The use of brain imaging methods for understanding the neurobiology of mood disorders and to target treatments for patients with bipolar disorders. Research in the use of novel medications and combinations of medications in the treatment of bipolar disorders. Research on the development and course of bipolar disorder in late adolescence and young adulthood, particularly in college students, and links between creativity, temperament, and mood disorders.

467 Total Publications
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Michaela Kiernan

Sr Res Scholar, Medicine - Med/Stanford Prevention Research Center
Research Interests
Research interests include: (1) the design and testing of targeted behavioral interventions that promote long-term lifestyle changes and weight management among subgroups at risk, and (2) the development of methodological and statistical approaches that improve the design, delivery, and analysis of behavioral randomized clinical trials

46 Total Publications