Albert Stunkard

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Albert Stunkard
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Albert J. ("Mickey") Stunkard (February 7, 1922 – July 12, 2014) was an American psychiatrist. He is known for his first descriptions of binge eating disorder and night eating syndrome in the 1950s.[1][2]

Life[]

Albert Stunkard was born in Manhattan, New York City, as the son of biologist . He studied medicine at Yale University and received his bachelor's degree in 1943. He received his MD from Columbia University in 1945. During World War II, he served as a physician in the United States Army in Japan. He was a lifelong student of D. T. Suzuki.[3]

From 1973 to 1977 he was the head of the psychiatric department at Stanford University. Yet, he spent the majority of his career as a psychiatrist and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. He died on July 12, 2014 in his Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, home from pneumonia.[4][5] He is generally considered as one of the most famous pioneers in obesity research.[6][7] His work in 1959 is regarded as the beginning of pessimism about long-term weight management.[8]

There is a chair professorship at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania named for Stunkard.[9] Holders of the chair have included Thomas A. Wadden.

Selected publications[]

  • Albert J. Stunkard, Andrew Baum (Eds.): Perspectives in Behavioral Medicine – Eating, Sleeping, and Sex. 1st edition. Psychology Press, Hove, UK 1989, ISBN 978-0805802801
  • Thomas A. Wadden, Albert J. Stunkard (Eds.): Obesity: Theory and Therapy. 2nd edition. Raven Press, New York 1993, ISBN 978-0881678840.
  • Kelly C. Allison, Albert J. Stunkard, Sara L. Thier: Overcoming Night Eating Syndrome. New Harbinger Publications, Oakland 2004, ISBN 978-1572243279
  • Thomas A. Wadden, Albert J. Stunkard (Eds.): Handbook of Obesity Treatment. 1st edition. The Guilford Press, New York 2004, ISBN 978-1593850944
  • Jennifer D. Lundgren, Kelly C. Allison, Albert J. Stunkard (Eds.): Night Eating Syndrome: Research, Assessment, and Treatment. 1st edition. The Guilford Press, New York 2012, ISBN 978-1462506309.

References[]

  1. ^ Stunkard, Albert J. (1959). "Eating patterns and obesity". The Psychiatric Quarterly. 33 (2): 284–295. doi:10.1007/BF01575455. PMID 13835451. S2CID 11125426.
  2. ^ STUNKARD AJ; GRACE WJ; WOLFF HG (1955). "The night-eating syndrome: a pattern of food intake among certain obese patients". The American Journal of Medicine. 19 (1): 78–86. doi:10.1016/0002-9343(55)90276-x. PMID 14388031.
  3. ^ Vitello, Paul (July 20, 2014). "Dr. Albert J. Stunkard, Destigmatizer of Fat, Dies at 92". The New York Times. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
  4. ^ "Albert Stunkard - obituary".
  5. ^ "Dr. Albert J. Stunkard, Destigmatizer of Fat, Dies at 92".
  6. ^ Allison, Kelly C.; Berkowitz, Robert I.; Brownell, Kelly D.; Foster, Gary D.; Wadden, Thomas A. (2014). "Albert J. ("Mickey") Stunkard, M.D." Obesity. 22 (9): 1937–1938. doi:10.1002/oby.20869. PMID 25164258.
  7. ^ Allison, Kelly C.; Lundgren, Jennifer D.; Wadden, Thomas A. (2016). "Albert J. Stunkard: His Research on Obesity and Its Psychological Impact". Current Obesity Reports. 5 (1): 140–144. doi:10.1007/s13679-016-0199-6. PMID 26820621. S2CID 207474251.
  8. ^ Wing, Rena R, and James O Hill. “Successful Weight Loss Maintenance.” Annual Review of Nutrition 21, no. 1 (2001): 323–41. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.nutr.21.1.323.
  9. ^ https://www.med.upenn.edu/endowedprofessorships/albert-j.-stunkard-professorship-of-psychiatry.html

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