Dr Natalie Kanakam

Natalie has contributed towards the research and evidence base for therapies and to increase our understanding of psychological disorders. She has authored over a dozen substantive academic papers and presented a international conferences.

Publications:

• Kanakam, N. (2020).  Exploring Therapists Reflective Experiences of Working with British Ethnic Minorities with Eating Disorders. https://repository.uel.ac.uk/download/ab5b2ee92d6d2213ff38b1495bcc52d480d131257b91a628996955fbbdffe40a/2156160/2020_ClinPsychD_Kanakam.pdf
• Gregertsen, EC; Mandy, W; Kanakam, N; Armstrong, S; Serpell, L; (2019) Pre-treatment patient characteristics as predictors of drop-out and treatment outcome in individual and family therapy for adolescents and adults with anorexia nervosa: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychiatry Research, 271 pp. 484-501.
• Kanakam, N., Krug, I., Raoult, C., Collier, D. and Treasure, J. (2017). Altered reward reactivity as a behavioural endophentoype in eating disorders: A pilot investigation in twins. European Eating Disorders Review
• Aung, M. S. H., Kaltwang, S., Romera-Paredes, B., Martinez, B., Singh, A., Cella, M., Valstar, M., Meng, H., Kemp, A., Shafizadeh, M., Elkins, A. C., Kanakam, N., Rothschild, A. de, Tyler, N., Watson, P. J., Williams, A. C. de C., Pantic, M., Bianchi-Berthouze, N.(2015). The automatic detection of chronic pain-related expression: requirements, challenges and a multimodal dataset in IEEE Trans. Affective Computing, 2015.
• Ling Lim, S., Bentley, P., Kanakam, N., Ishikawa, F. and Honiden, S. (2014). Investigating country specific differences in mobile app user behaviour and challenges for software engineering. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (in press)
• Veale, D., Eshkevari, E., Kanakam, N., Ellison, N., Costa, A. and Werner, T. (2014). The Appearance Anxiety Inventory: Validation of a process measure in the treatment of body dysmorphic disorder. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
• Singh, A., Klapper, A, Jia, J., Fidalgo, A., Tajadura-Jimenez, A., Kanakam, N., Bianchi-Berthouze, N., Williams, A. (2014). Motivating People with Chronic Pain to do Physical Activity: Opportunities for Technology Design in Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI 2014).
• Kanakam, N., Krug, I., Raoult, C., Collier, D. and Treasure, J. (2013). Social and emotional processing as a behavioural endophenotype in eating disorders: A pilot investigation in twins. European Eating Disorders Review. DOI: 10.1002/erv.2232
• L., Aung, M. S. H., Romera-Paredes, B., Singh, A., Lim, S., Kanakam, N., CdeC Williams, A., Bianchi-Berthouze, N. (2013). Getting rid of pain-related behaviour to improve social and self-perception: a technology-based perspective. The 14th International Workshop on Image and Audio Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS) 2013
• Veale, D., Murphy, P., Ellison, N., Kanakam, N. and Costa, A. (2012). Autobiographical memories of vomiting in people with a specific phobia of vomiting (emetophobia). Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 44(1), 14-20
• Kanakam, N., Rauolt, C., Collier, D. and Treasure, J. (2012). Set shifting and central coherence as neurocognitive endophenotypes in eating disorders: a preliminary investigation in twins. The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry.doi:10.3109/15622975.2012.665478
• Kanakam, N. and Treasure, J. (2012). A review of cognitive neuropsychiatry in the taxonomy of eating disorders: State, trait or genetic? Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. doi:10.1080/13546805.2012.682362
• Treasure, J. and Kanakam, N. (2011). The links between genes and the environment in the shaping of personality: In J. Alexander, & J. Treasure (Eds.). A Collaborative Approach to Eating Disorders. Routledge. (pp. 19-35). Sussex: Routledge
• Treasure, J., Kanakam, N. and Macare, C. (2011). Genotypes and phenotypes of anorexia nervosa. In: V. R. Preedy, R. R. Watson, & C. R. Martin (Eds.). International Handbook of Behaviour, Diet and Nutrition. (pp. 2471-2489) New York: Springer

Conference Presentations:

• Kanakam, N. (2019). How we process information: Neurocognitive and behavioural traits. Presented at the International Workshop on Agent-Based Modelling of Human Behaviour - Conference on Artificial Life, Newcastle, UK
• Leach, N., Kanakam, N., Droeschel, D. and Walzer, S. (2015). Impact of on-going national health technology assessment challenges on patient access to new therapies for multiple sclerosis in Germany and the UK. Presented at the ISPOR 18th Annual European Conference in Milan, Italy
• Kanakam, N., Krug, I., Collier, D. and Treasure, J. (2012). Social and emotional processing as a behavioural endophenotype in eating disorders: A pilot investigation in twins. Presented at the Australia and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders Conference in Adelaide, Australia
• Kanakam, N. and Treasure, J. (2010). Social and emotional processing as a behavioural endophenotype in eating disorders: A pilot investigation in twins. Presented at the Division of Clinical Psychology Annual Conference in Manchester, UK
• Kanakam, N. and Treasure, J. (2010). Reward sensitivity as a behavioural endophenotype in eating disorders: A pilot investigation in twins. Presented at the BABCP conference in Surrey, UK