Nancy Zucker
Biographic Data
| ID | 6257706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Zucker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Zucker |
| SIGNATURE | ZUCKER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2278-5008 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Experimental Therapeutics: Opportunities and Challenges Stemming From the National Institute of Mental Health Workshop on Novel Target Discovery and Psychosocial Intervention Development
There has been slow progress in the development of interventions that prevent and/or reduce mental-health morbidity and mortality. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) launched an experimental-therapeutics initiative with the goal of accelerating the development of effective interventions. The emphasis is on interventions designed to engage a target mechanism. A target mechanism is a process (e.g., behavioral, neurobiological) proposed …
Interactive cooking lessons improve attitudes towards food and weight statuses among preschool children
Objective: Data demonstrate that children in the USA eat below the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables, which has been linked with increased risk of obesity and low weight. Previous school-based interventions promoting healthy eating and enjoyment of food have yielded outcomes such as improved weight and children’s willingness to try novel foods. Therefore, we explored whether interactive cooking lessons could be an effective means of foo…
Do interoceptive accuracy and interoceptive sensibility predict emotion regulation
Children’s Beliefs about Pain: An Exploratory Analysis
Functional abdominal pain (FAP) is one of the most common childhood medical complaints, associated with significant distress and impairment. Little is known about how children understand their pain. Do they attribute it to personal weakness? Do they perceive pain as having global impact, affecting a variety of activities? How do they cope with pain? We explored the pain beliefs of 5- to 9-year-old children with FAP using a novel Teddy Bear Interv…
Family-Based Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa Symptoms in High-Risk Youth: A Partially-Randomized Preference-Design Study
ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier NCT00418977
Associations of self-reported eating disorder behaviors and personality in a college-educated sample
Pre-Pregnancy Weight and Symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Executive Functioning Behaviors in Preschool Children
This study examines pre-pregnancy Body Mass Index (BMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) in relation to early childhood Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms and related executive self-regulation behaviors. The analyses sample ( n = 331) included a subsample of participants from a birth cohort recruited from prenatal clinics and hospital facilities from April 2005 to June 2011 in Durham, North Carolina. Pre-pregnancy BMI was c…
Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap
Interoception refers to the process by which the nervous system senses, interprets, and integrates signals originating from within the body, providing a moment-by-moment mapping of the body's internal landscape across conscious and unconscious levels. Interoceptive signaling has been considered a component process of reflexes, urges, feelings, drives, adaptive responses, and cognitive and emotional experiences, highlighting its contributions to t…
Time of Day When Type 1 Diabetes Patients With Eating Disorder Symptoms Most Commonly Restrict Insulin
OBJECTIVE: Restricting insulin to lose weight is a significant problem in the clinical management of type 1 diabetes (T1D). Little is known about this behavior or how to effectively intervene. Identifying when insulin restriction occurs could allow clinicians to target typical high-risk times or formulate hypotheses regarding factors that influence this behavior. The current study investigated the frequency of insulin restriction by time of day. …
The Clinical Significance of Posterior Insular Volume in Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa
OBJECTIVE: The diagnostic criterion disturbance in the experience of the body remains a poorly understood and persistent feature of anorexia nervosa (AN). Increased sophistication in understanding the structure of the insular cortex-a neural structure that receives and integrates visceral sensations with action and meaning-may elucidate the nature of this disturbance. We explored age, weight status, illness severity, and self-reported body dissat…
Secretive eating among youth with overweight or obesity
Overeating phenotypes in overweight and obese children
Disinhibited eating and weight-related insulin mismanagement among individuals with type 1 diabetes
Associations between child emotional eating and general parenting style, feeding practices, and parent psychopathology
Changes in Depressive Symptoms and Glycemic Control in Diabetes Mellitus
OBJECTIVE: To investigate if changes in depressive symptoms would be associated with changes in glycemic control over a 12-month period in patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. METHODS: Ninety (Type 1 diabetes, n = 28; Type 2 diabetes, n = 62) patients having Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) levels of >10 were enrolled in the study. Of those 90 patients, 65 patients completed a 12-week cognitive behavioral therapy intervention. BDI was assesse…
Anorexia nervosa and autism spectrum disorders: Guided investigation of social cognitive endophenotypes
Death by suicide occurs in a disproportionate percentage of individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN), with a standardized mortality ratio indicating a 57-fold greater risk of death from suicide relative to an age-matched cohort. Longitudinal studies indicate impaired social functioning increases risk for fatal outcomes, while social impairment persists following recovery. Study of social cognition in AN may elucidate impaired processes that may inf…
Associations between child emotional eating and general parenting style, feeding practices, and parent psychopathology
Overeating phenotypes in overweight and obese children
Anorexia nervosa and autism spectrum disorders: Guided investigation of social cognitive endophenotypes
Death by suicide occurs in a disproportionate percentage of individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN), with a standardized mortality ratio indicating a 57-fold greater risk of death from suicide relative to an age-matched cohort. Longitudinal studies indicate impaired social functioning increases risk for fatal outcomes, while social impairment persists following recovery. Study of social cognition in AN may elucidate impaired processes that may inf…
Disinhibited eating and weight-related insulin mismanagement among individuals with type 1 diabetes
Secretive eating among youth with overweight or obesity
Changes in Depressive Symptoms and Glycemic Control in Diabetes Mellitus
OBJECTIVE: To investigate if changes in depressive symptoms would be associated with changes in glycemic control over a 12-month period in patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. METHODS: Ninety (Type 1 diabetes, n = 28; Type 2 diabetes, n = 62) patients having Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) levels of >10 were enrolled in the study. Of those 90 patients, 65 patients completed a 12-week cognitive behavioral therapy intervention. BDI was assesse…
Anorexia nervosa and autism spectrum disorders: Guided investigation of social cognitive endophenotypes
Death by suicide occurs in a disproportionate percentage of individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN), with a standardized mortality ratio indicating a 57-fold greater risk of death from suicide relative to an age-matched cohort. Longitudinal studies indicate impaired social functioning increases risk for fatal outcomes, while social impairment persists following recovery. Study of social cognition in AN may elucidate impaired processes that may inf…
Overeating phenotypes in overweight and obese children
Disinhibited eating and weight-related insulin mismanagement among individuals with type 1 diabetes
Associations between child emotional eating and general parenting style, feeding practices, and parent psychopathology
The Clinical Significance of Posterior Insular Volume in Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa
OBJECTIVE: The diagnostic criterion disturbance in the experience of the body remains a poorly understood and persistent feature of anorexia nervosa (AN). Increased sophistication in understanding the structure of the insular cortex-a neural structure that receives and integrates visceral sensations with action and meaning-may elucidate the nature of this disturbance. We explored age, weight status, illness severity, and self-reported body dissat…
Secretive eating among youth with overweight or obesity
Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap
Interoception refers to the process by which the nervous system senses, interprets, and integrates signals originating from within the body, providing a moment-by-moment mapping of the body's internal landscape across conscious and unconscious levels. Interoceptive signaling has been considered a component process of reflexes, urges, feelings, drives, adaptive responses, and cognitive and emotional experiences, highlighting its contributions to t…
Time of Day When Type 1 Diabetes Patients With Eating Disorder Symptoms Most Commonly Restrict Insulin
OBJECTIVE: Restricting insulin to lose weight is a significant problem in the clinical management of type 1 diabetes (T1D). Little is known about this behavior or how to effectively intervene. Identifying when insulin restriction occurs could allow clinicians to target typical high-risk times or formulate hypotheses regarding factors that influence this behavior. The current study investigated the frequency of insulin restriction by time of day. …
Pre-Pregnancy Weight and Symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Executive Functioning Behaviors in Preschool Children
This study examines pre-pregnancy Body Mass Index (BMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) in relation to early childhood Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms and related executive self-regulation behaviors. The analyses sample ( n = 331) included a subsample of participants from a birth cohort recruited from prenatal clinics and hospital facilities from April 2005 to June 2011 in Durham, North Carolina. Pre-pregnancy BMI was c…
Family-Based Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa Symptoms in High-Risk Youth: A Partially-Randomized Preference-Design Study
ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier NCT00418977
Associations of self-reported eating disorder behaviors and personality in a college-educated sample
Do interoceptive accuracy and interoceptive sensibility predict emotion regulation
Children’s Beliefs about Pain: An Exploratory Analysis
Functional abdominal pain (FAP) is one of the most common childhood medical complaints, associated with significant distress and impairment. Little is known about how children understand their pain. Do they attribute it to personal weakness? Do they perceive pain as having global impact, affecting a variety of activities? How do they cope with pain? We explored the pain beliefs of 5- to 9-year-old children with FAP using a novel Teddy Bear Interv…
Experimental Therapeutics: Opportunities and Challenges Stemming From the National Institute of Mental Health Workshop on Novel Target Discovery and Psychosocial Intervention Development
There has been slow progress in the development of interventions that prevent and/or reduce mental-health morbidity and mortality. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) launched an experimental-therapeutics initiative with the goal of accelerating the development of effective interventions. The emphasis is on interventions designed to engage a target mechanism. A target mechanism is a process (e.g., behavioral, neurobiological) proposed …
Interactive cooking lessons improve attitudes towards food and weight statuses among preschool children
Objective: Data demonstrate that children in the USA eat below the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables, which has been linked with increased risk of obesity and low weight. Previous school-based interventions promoting healthy eating and enjoyment of food have yielded outcomes such as improved weight and children’s willingness to try novel foods. Therefore, we explored whether interactive cooking lessons could be an effective means of foo…
Psychology (14 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Psychiatry (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Eating Disorders and Behaviors (8 works) · Eating disorders (7 works) · Internal Medicine (5 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Anorexia nervosa (3 works)