Obesity: What Mental Health Professionals Need to Know

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1998 • 9,277 citations

Serum Immunoreactive-Leptin Concentrations in Normal-Weight and Obese Humans

1996 • 6,254 citations

Overweight and obesity in the United States: prevalence and trends, 1960–1994

1997 • 3,098 citations

Who Would Have Thought It? An Operation Proves to Be the Most Effective Therapy for Adult-Onset Diabetes Mellitus

1995 • 2,296 citations

Environmental Contributions to the Obesity Epidemic

1998 • 2,243 citations

Changes in Energy Expenditure Resulting from Altered Body Weight

1995 • 1,926 citations

The Effect of Age on the Association between Body-Mass Index and Mortality

1998 • 1,643 citations

Current Estimates of the Economic Cost of Obesity in the United States

1998 • 1,303 citations

The Response to Long-Term Overfeeding in Identical Twins

1990 • 1,287 citations

A descriptive study of individuals successful at long-term maintenance of substantial weight loss

1997 • 1,084 citations

Role of Nonexercise Activity Thermogenesis in Resistance to Fat Gain in Humans

1999 • 998 citations

Weight Control and Risk Factor Reduction in Obese Subjects Treated for 2 Years With Orlistat

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1994 • 750 citations

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1995 • 620 citations

The night-eating syndrome

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1986 • 584 citations

The Search for Human Obesity Genes

1998 • 570 citations

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1995 • 552 citations

Obesity Associated with a Mutation in a Genetic Regulator of Adipocyte Differentiation

1998 • 549 citations

Association of binge eating disorder and psychiatric comorbidity in obese subjects [published erratum appears in Am J Psychiatry 1993 Dec;150(12):1910]

1993 • 514 citations

Effect of Degree of Weight Loss on Health Benefits

1995 • 499 citations

The Influence of Smoking Cessation on the Prevalence of Overweight in the United States

1995 • 495 citations

The relationship between body weight and mortality: a quantitative analysis of combined information from existing studies.

1996 • 481 citations

What is a reasonable weight loss? Patients' expectations and evaluations of obesity treatment outcomes.

1997 • 469 citations

Confronting the failure of behavioral and dietary treatments for obesity

1991 • 464 citations

Nonsurgical Factors That Influence the Outcome of Bariatric Surgery

1998 • 445 citations

Comparison of Standard and Low Serum Levels of Lithium for Maintenance Treatment of Bipolar Disorder

1989 • 443 citations

The 10-Year Incidence of Overweight and Major Weight Gain in US Adults

1990 • 431 citations

Behavioral and Neuroendocrine Characteristics of the Night-Eating Syndrome

1999 • 429 citations

The heritability of body mass index among an international sample of monozygotic twins reared apart.

1996 • 422 citations

Binge Eating Disorder: Current Knowledge and Future Directions

1993 • 419 citations

Measurements of total energy expenditure provide insights into the validity of dietary measurements of energy intake

1993 • 414 citations

Obesity and Stature in Adolescence and Earnings in Young Adulthood

1994 • 345 citations

How much physical activity is needed to minimize weight gain in previously obese women?

1997 • 345 citations

Energy Expenditure in Obese and Nonobese Adolescents

1990 • 294 citations

Prevalence of mental disorder in 88 morbidly obese bariatric clinic patients

1992 • 289 citations

Consequences of dieting to lose weight: Effects on physical and mental health.

1994 • 280 citations

Etiology and treatment of obesity: Understanding a serious, prevalent, and refractory disorder.

1992 • 275 citations

Very Low-Calorie Diets

1993 • 268 citations

Genetics of Obesity

1993 • 247 citations

Further Support for Consistent Self‐Monitoring as a Vital Component of Successful Weight Control

1998 • 236 citations

Assessment of binge eating in obese patients

1993 • 233 citations

Eating disturbances before and after vertical banded gastroplasty: A pilot study

1996 • 213 citations

Review of nocturnal sleep‐related eating disorders

1994 • 200 citations

Body Weight Set-Points: Determination and Adjustment

1997 • 198 citations

Cognitive behavior therapy for negative body image in obese women

1995 • 196 citations

Safety of Topiramate: Adverse Events and Relationships to Dosing

1996 • 192 citations

Heritable variation in food preferences and their contribution to obesity.

1997 • 191 citations

Eating disturbances and outcome of gastric bypass surgery: A pilot study

1997 • 183 citations

Body Weight and Health Care Among Women in the General Population

1998 • 180 citations

Influences of genes and shared family environment on adult body mass index assessed in an adoption study by a comprehensive path model.

1995 • 177 citations

Introduction

1992 • 176 citations

Mirtazapine: An Antidepressant with Noradrenergic and Specific Serotonergic Effects

1997 • 175 citations

Indication for Linkage of the Human OB Gene Region With Extreme Obesity

1996 • 171 citations

Weight gain

1984 • 170 citations

Changes in Weight During a 1-Year Trial of Fluoxetine

1999 • 167 citations

Clinical and Polysomnographic Features of Sleep-Related Eating Disorder

1998 • 167 citations

Confronting a rising tide of eating disorders and obesity: Treatment vs. prevention and policy

1996 • 164 citations

Fluoxetine: a randomized clinical trial in the treatment of obesity.

1994 • 162 citations

Linkage and Association Studies between the Melanocortin Receptors 4 and 5 Genes and Obesity-Related Phenotypes in the Québec Family Study

1997 • 162 citations

Behavioral treatment of obesity: thirty years and counting

1994 • 161 citations

Genetic influences on daily intake and meal patterns of humans

1993 • 154 citations

Onset of binge eating, dieting, obesity, and mood disorders among subjects seeking treatment for binge eating disorder

1995 • 151 citations

Lipase inhibition: a novel concept in the treatment of obesity.

1993 • 151 citations

Binge eating disorder, weight cycling, and psychopathology

1994 • 150 citations

Prospective studies on a lithium cohort

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Talking with patients

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The maintenance of treatment effects in the long-term management of obesity.

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Long-term Effects of Dieting on Resting Metabolic Rate in Obese Outpatients

1990 • 141 citations

Weight Gain Associated With Neuroleptic Medication: A Review

1995 • 134 citations

The Effects of Weight Loss on the Activity and Expression of Adipose-Tissue Lipoprotein Lipase in Very Obese Humans

1990 • 132 citations

Mortality and Optimal Body Mass Index in a Sample of the US Population

1998 • 132 citations

Moclobemide

1992 • 130 citations

Clinical characteristics associated with binge eating in obese females: a descriptive study.

1996 • 124 citations

Binge Eating Disorder Affects Outcome of Comprehensive Very‐Low‐Calorie Diet Treatment

1994 • 123 citations

Dietary obesity in the mouse: interaction of strain with diet composition

1995 • 121 citations

Can physical activity minimize weight gain in women after smoking cessation?

1996 • 121 citations

Exercise and the maintenance of weight loss: 1-year follow-up of a controlled clinical trial.

1998 • 116 citations

Short- and Long-Term Changes in Serum Leptin in Dieting Obese Women: Effects of Caloric Restriction and Weight Loss¹

1998 • 116 citations

Acceptance and change in the treatment of eating disorders and obesity

1996 • 116 citations

Weight Gain after Cessation of Cigarette Smoking

1984 • 112 citations

Maintenance lithium treatment: side effects and compliance.

1989 • 109 citations

Effects of cigarette smoking and its cessation on body weight and plasma leptin levels

1999 • 103 citations

Obesity Treatment: Can Diet Composition Play a Role?

1993 • 102 citations

The bulimia syndrome: Course of the illness and associated problems

1986 • 96 citations

Binge eating in obesity.

1993 • 94 citations

Is leptin sensitivity the link between smoking cessation and weight gain?

1997 • 92 citations

Psychology of Nutrition

1994 • 86 citations

Absence of Cardiac Valve Dysfunction in Obese Patients Treated with Sibutramine

1999 • 86 citations

Psychiatric illness in patients presenting for obesity treatment

1992 • 83 citations

The calorie: myth, measurement, and reality

1995 • 83 citations

Response of obese binge eaters to treatment by behavior therapy combined with very low calorie diet.

1992 • 79 citations

Psychosocial risk factors in gastric surgery for obesity: identifying guidelines for screening.

1987 • 78 citations

Bodyweight Gain Induced by Psychotropic Drugs

1998 • 77 citations

Genetic determinants of regional fat distribution

1997 • 73 citations

Weight Loss with Psychiatric Residents in a Behavioral Self Control Program

1980 • 67 citations

Putting the behavior into the behavior genetics of obesity.

1997 • 67 citations

Cognitive-behavioral body image therapy.

1997 • 65 citations

Long-term weight control study IV (weeks 156 to 190)

1992 • 55 citations

Minimizing and managing antidepressant side effects.

1995 • 48 citations

A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of the effect of fluoxetine on dietary intake in overweight women with and without binge-eating disorder

1996 • 47 citations

Uncoupling Proteins Provide New Clue to Obesity's Causes

1998 • 45 citations

Gender and race differences in the correlation between body mass and education in the 1971-1975 NHANES I.

1992 • 41 citations

Energy Expenditure in the Obese: Is there a Thrifty Gene?

1990 • 40 citations

Heterogeneity of clinical presentation among obese individuals seeking treatment

1990 • 39 citations

Rethinking Side Effects of the Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors: Sexual Dysfunction and Weight Gain

1998 • 38 citations

Drugs That Cause Weight Gain

1995 • 35 citations

Weight reduction in a chronic schizophrenic by means of operant conditioning procedures: a case study

1969 • 34 citations

Gaining on Fat

1996 • 34 citations

A Comparison of Sibutramine and Dexfenfluramine in the Treatment of Obesity

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A Study of Weight Reducing Diets in Psychiatric In-Patients

1980 • 30 citations

Genetics and Human Obesity

1989 • 27 citations

Effects of a very low calorie diet on weight, thyroid hormones and mood.

1990 • 26 citations

ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF BINGE-EATING DISORDER

1996 • 25 citations

How to Appease the Appetite of Psychotropic Drugs

1998 • 20 citations

Reinforcement and Weight Loss in Schizophrenics

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Surgical Treatment of Regional Adiposity

1987 • 16 citations

Behavioral and Psychological Predictors of Treatment Outcome in Obesity

1995 • 16 citations

Clinical correlates of body weight changes in schizophrenia

1994 • 14 citations

The treatment of obesity. A call for prudence and professionalism.

1997 • 11 citations

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1955 • 0 citations