About

Lisa M. Anderson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on eating disorders, including binge eating, disordered eating, and anorexia nervosa, with an emphasis on understanding the neural and psychological mechanisms underlying these conditions. She has contributed to projects exploring neuroscience-informed treatments and neural bases of disgust conditioning in anorexia nervosa, often utilizing technology-assisted interventions. Her work also examines affect, interoception, and emotion dysregulation in women with eating disorder pathology, aiming to inform personalized treatment approaches. Anderson has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles on topics such as affect, eating behaviors, and emotion regulation in eating disorders, and her research contributes toward several UN Sustainable Development Goals, including good health and well-being, gender equality, reduced inequalities, and sustainable cities and communities.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Medicine
• Psychiatry
• Clinical psychology
• Environmental health
• Demography
• Nursing
• Cognitive psychology
• Virology
• Internal medicine

Selected publications

• The Role of Disgust in Eating Disorders

  Current Psychiatry Reports · 2021 · 50 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Psychology
  • Cognitive psychology
  • Clinical psychology
  DOI

• Eating disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine: an overview of risks and recommendations for treatment and early intervention

  Eating Disorders · 2020 · 211 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Psychology
  • Psychiatry
  • Medicine

  Individuals with eating disorders (EDs) are at significant risk for increases in symptomatology and diminished treatment access during the COVID-19 pandemic. Environmental precautions to limit coronavirus spread have affected food availability and access to healthy coping mechanisms, and have contributed to weight-stigmatizing social media messages that may be uniquely harmful to those experiencing EDs. Additionally, changes in socialization and routine, stress, and experiences of trauma that are being experienced globally may be particularly deleterious to ED risk and recovery. This paper presents a brief review of the pertinent literature related to the risk of EDs in the context of COVID-19 and offers suggestions for modifying intervention efforts to accommodate the unique challenges individuals with EDs and providers may be experiencing in light of the ongoing public health crisis.

  DOI

• The role of affect in the maintenance of binge-eating disorder: Evidence from an ecological momentary assessment study.

  Journal of Abnormal Psychology · 2020 · 155 citations

  • Psychology
  • Clinical psychology
  • Psychiatry

  Affect regulation models of eating disorder behavior, which predict worsening of affect prior to binge-eating episodes and improvement in affect following such episodes, have received support in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. However, limited work has examined the trajectories of affect surrounding binge eating in binge-eating disorder (BED). In the current study, ecological momentary assessment data from 112 men and women with BED were used to examine the trajectories of positive affect (PA), negative affect (NA), guilt, fear, hostility, and sadness relative to binge-eating episodes. Prior to binge episodes, PA significantly decreased, whereas NA and guilt significantly increased. Following binge episodes, levels of NA and guilt significantly decreased and PA stabilized. Overall, results indicate improvements in affect following binge-eating episodes, suggesting that binge eating may function to alleviate unpleasant emotional experiences among individuals with BED, which is consistent with affect regulation models of eating pathology. Because improvements in negative affect were primarily driven by change in guilt, findings also highlight the relative importance of understanding the relationship between guilt and binge-eating behavior within this population. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

  DOI

• Intuitive eating longitudinally predicts better psychological health and lower use of disordered eating behaviors: findings from EAT 2010–2018

  Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity · 2020 · 184 citations

  • Medicine
  • Demography
  • Clinical psychology
  DOI

Frequent coauthors

• Erin E. Reilly

  87 shared

• Drew A. Anderson

  University at Albany, State University of New York

  69 shared

• Sasha Gorrell

  University of California, San Francisco

  51 shared

• Katherine Schaumberg

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

  46 shared

• Carol B. Peterson

  University of Minnesota

  17 shared

• Stephen A. Wonderlich

  16 shared

• Ross D. Crosby

  16 shared

• Drew A. Anderson

  Albany State University

  13 shared

Awards & honors

• Travel Grant to Attend and Present at the 19th Annual Intern…
• Travel Grant to Attend and Present at the 20th Annual Intern…
• Professional Development Grant to Attend and Present at the…
• MGH Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program Summer Re…
• Obesity and Eating Disorders Special Interest Group, Poster…

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