Journal of Obesity & Weight Loss Therapy
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Kathryn E Demos

Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, Weight Control and Diabetes Research Cente, The Miriam Hospital and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University,USA

Biography

Kathryn E. Demos, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Brown University Medical School and the Weight Control & Diabetes Research Center. Dr. Demos received her Ph.D. in Psychological and Brain Sciences from Dartmouth College in 2008. Her primary research focus is in functional neuroimaging of reward processing and self-regulation in obesity, weight loss, and weight control.

Publications

Greater Food-Related Stroop Interference Following Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention

Objective: Individuals who have successfully lost and maintained weight have slower reaction times on foodrelated Stroop tasks, indicating greater cognitive interference to food stimuli compared to obese and normal weight individuals. It remains unclear whether this interference is a preexisting characteristic of weight loss maintainers or if food-... Read More»

Kathryn E Demos, Jeanne M McCaffery, Sara A Cournoyer, Caroline A Wunsch and Rena R Wing

Research Article: J Obes Weight Loss Ther 2013, 3: 187

DOI: 10.4172/2165-7904.1000187

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