Diversity

Our work

Our work has addressed issues regarding obesity stigma and also the relationship between gender and eating disordered behavior. Our most recent clinical trial using imaging recruited primarily African-American women. Our recent work also examines racial diversity in neuroimaging studies.

1. *Eneva, KT, *Murray, S, *Yiu, A, *O’Garro-Moore, J, Alloy, LB, Avena, NM, Chen EY (2017). Reward and Punishment Sensitivity and Disordered Eating Behaviors in Men and Women. The Journal of Eating Disorders. 16;5:6. doi: 10.1186/s40337-017-0138-2.
2. *Fettich, KC, & Chen, EY, (2012). Coping with obesity stigma affects depressed mood in African-American and Caucasian candidates for bariatric surgery. 20 (5): 1118-1121. DOI: 10.1038/oby.2012.12.
3. Chen, EY, & *Brown, M. (2005) Obesity Stigma in Sexual Relationships. Obesity 13: 1393-1397. doi: 10.1038/oby.2005.
4. Chen, EY, Olino, TM, Conklin, CJ, Mohamed, FB, Hoge, WS, Foster, GD. On behalf of the GN-BO study group (Genetic and Neural Biomarkers of Obesity) study group: Arlt, J., Murray, S., Eneva, K.T., Yiu, A., VanderVeur, S.S., Lent, M., Tewsbury, C., Kidd, K., Kidd, J & Newberg, A.. (2017). Genetic and neural predictors of Behavior Weight Loss. A preliminary study. Obesity. 25(1), 66-75. DOI: 10.1002/oby.21691.
5. Chen EY. Update on the Racial Diversity of Neuroimaging Studies Examining Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes. Invited Talk. The Obesity Society Annual Meeting. November 2-6, 2020.
6. Chen EY, Taylor, R., Szanto, N., Karth, M., Karth, M., McCloskey, MS. Reporting sociodemographic variables in neuroimaging studies of obesity. A review of reviews. Neuroimaging and Modulation in obesity and diabetes research. NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD. April 16 – 17, 2019.