Professor Janet Treasure PhD FRCP FRCPsych
Professor
South London & Maudsley NHS Trust
Director Eating Disorder Unit and
Professor Psychiatry Guys, Kings & St Thomas Medical School, London
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| tel | +00 (44) 20 7188 0194 |
| address | Department of Psychiatry 5th Floor, Thomas Guy House Guy's Hospital London SE1 9RT |
| departments | Psychological Medicine and Psychiatry |
| also | Eating Disorders |
biography
Professor Treasure is a psychiatrist who has specialised in the treatment of eating disorders for over twenty years. The Eating Disorder Unit at the South London Maudsley Hospital NHS Trust is a leading centre in clinical management and training of eating disorders. The unit provides eating disorder services for a population of 2 million in south East London and accepts specialists referrals from throughout out the United Kingdom. She was chairman of the Physical treatment section of the UK NICE guideline committee. She is the Chief Medical Officer for the Eating Disorder Association (the main UK eating disorder charity) and is the trustee of the Sheffield eating disorders association. She is on the Academy of eating disorders accreditation committee. She has also been active in both research over this time and has over 150 peer reviewed papers. In 2004 was honoured to be awarded the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) Leadership Award in Research (This award honors an individual who has over substantial period of time ( i.e., 10 years or more) developed through research new knowledge about eating disorders that is internationally respected and that has had a measurable impact on the field, either by significantly furthering our understanding of the etiology of eating disorders, by changing treatment or by fostering new lines of research). The unit is active in research and development in all aspects of eating disorders treatment, biology, clinical problems etc. Professor Treasure has been a co-coordinator of a multicentre European study that is examining the genetic and environmental factors in the management of eating disorders. Professor Treasure was also Vice Chairman of a European project examining the effectiveness of treatment of eating disorders in over 20 countries. Professor Treasure has edited four texts on eating disorders “Neurobiology in the Treatment of Eating Disorders” Ed Hoek K, Treasure J, Katzman M (1997) & “Handbook on Eating Disorders”, Szmukler G, Dare C & Treasure (1995) (edition 1 &2) Wiley and, Owen, Treasure & Collier (2001) “Animal Models of Eating behaviour and body composition “,Kluwer Academic Publishers The Netherlands. She has authored 2 self help books, one on bulimia nervosa "Getting better bite by bite” and one for parents and teachers as well as sufferers themselves on anorexia nervosa "Anorexia nervosa; a survival guide for families, friends and sufferers". She is working on developing manuals & CD Roms to describe working with individuals and families of people with anorexia nervosa. The ethos of both the research and clinical practice is to work collaboratively with carers and users and to use new technology to further this endeavour. The web site www.eatingresearch.com hosts information for all stakeholders, users, carers and professionals. Together with the Eating Disorders Association the team at the Maudsley have help carers conferences. Currently we are involved in an International study in which we are examining the factors that cause anorexia nervosa to run in families and we are recruiting families in which more than one family member has an eating disorder.
publications
2005
Bacanu SA, Bulik CM, Klump KL, Fichter MM, Halmi KA, Keel P et al. Linkage analysis of anorexia and bulimia nervosa cohorts using selected behavioral phenotypes as quantitative traits or covariates. Am.J Med.Genet.B Neuropsychiatr.Genet. 2005.
Bergen AW, Yeager M, Welch RA, Haque K, Ganjei JK, van den Bree MB et al. Association of Multiple DRD2 Polymorphisms with Anorexia Nervosa. Neuropsychopharmacology 2005.
Bulik CM, Bacanu SA, Klump KL, Fichter MM, Halmi KA, Keel P et al. Selection of eating-disorder phenotypes for linkage analysis. Am.J Med.Genet.B Neuropsychiatr.Genet. 2005.
Currin L, Schmidt U, Treasure J, Jick H. Time trends in eating disorder incidence. Br.J Psychiatry 2005;186:132-5.
Friedrich HC, Kumari V, Uher R, Riga M, Schmidt U, Campbell I et al. Motivational responses to food, body image and emotional cues in eating disorders – a startle reflex paradigm. submitted 2005.
Holliday J, Tcanturia K, Landau S, Collier D, Treasure J. Is Impaired Set-Shifting An Endophenotype Of Anorexia Nervosa? American j Psychiatry 2005.
Holliday J, Wall E, Treasure J, Weinman J. Perceptions of illness in individuals with anorexia nervosa: A comparison with lay men and women. Int.J Eat.Disord. 2005;37:50-6.
Meyer C, Serpell L, Waller G, Murphy F, Treasure J, Leung N. Cognitive avoidance in the strategic processing of ego threats among eating-disordered patients. Int.J Eat Disord. 2005;38:30-6.
Meyer C, Serpell L, Waller G, Murphy F, Treasure J, Leung N. Cognitive avoidance in the strategic processing of ego threats among eating-disordered patients. Int.J Eat Disord. 2005;38:30-6.
Ribases M, Gratacos M, Fernandez-Aranda F, Bellodi L, Boni C, Anderluh M et al. Association of BDNF with restricting anorexia nervosa and minimum body mass index: a family-based association study of eight European populations. Eur J Hum.Genet. 2005;13:428-34.
Schmidt U,.Treasure J. Anorexia Nervosa: Valued and Visible. A Cognitive-Interpersonal Maintenance Model and its Implications for Research and Practice. Br.J.Clin.Psychol. 2005.
Southgate L, Tchanturia K, Treasure J. Building a model of the aetiology of eating disorders by translating experimental neuroscience into clinical practice. J Mental Health 2005;in press.
Tchanturia K, Campbell IC, Morris R, Treasure J. Neuropsychological studies in anorexia nervosa. Int.J Eat Disord. 2005;37:S72-S76.
Treasure J,.Schmidt U. Anorexia nervosa. Clin.Evid. 2005;1148-57.
Treasure J, Whitaker W, Whitney J, Schmidt U. Working with families of adults with anorexia nervosa. Journal of Family Therapy 2005;27:158-70.
Treasure J, Whitaker W, Whitney J, Schmidt U. Working with families of adults with anorexia nervosa. Journal of Family Therapy 2005;27:158-70.
Treasure J, Tchanturia K, Schmidt U. Developing a model of the treatment for eating disorder: using neuroscience research to examine the how rather than the what of change. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research 2005.
Uher R, Murphy T, Friederich HC, Dalgleish T, Brammer MJ, Giampietro V et al. Functional Neuroanatomy of Body Shape Perception in Healthy and Eating-Disordered Women. Biol.Psychiatry 2005.
Uher R, Yoganathan D, Mogg A, Eranti SV, Treasure J, Campbell IC et al. Effect of Left Prefrontal Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Food Craving. Biol.Psychiatry 2005.
Uher R,.Treasure J. Brain lesions and eating disorders. J Neurol Neurosurg.Psychiatry 2005;76:852-7.
last updated: Thursday, November 03, 2005