Kelly Costello Allison

Associate Professor
Psychology
Pennsylvania State University
Uganda

Biography

Education: B.A. (Psychology) University of Notre Dame, 1995. M.A. (Clinical Psychology) Miami University, Oxford, OH, 1997. Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology) Miami University, Oxford, OH, 2000. Post-Graduate Training Weight and Eating Disorders Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2000-2001.

Research Intrest

Psychology in Psychiatry

List of Publications
Allison KC, Lundgren JD, O’Reardon JP, Martino NS, Sarwer DB, Wadden TA, Crosby RD, Engel SG, Stunkard AJ: The Night Eating Questionnaire (NEQ): psychometric properties of a measure of severity of the night eating syndrome. Eating Behaviors 9(1): 62-72, January 2008 Notes: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2007.03.007.
Lundgren JD, Newberg AB, Allison KC, Wintering NA, Ploessl K, Stunkard AJ: 123I-ADAM SPECT imaging of serotonin transporter binding in patients with night eating syndrome: a preliminary report. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 162: 214-220, 2008.
Allison KC, Sarwer DB, Pare E: Issues related to weight management during pregnancy among overweight and obese women. Expert Review of Obstetrics & Gynecology 2: 249-254, 2007.