Publications by authors named "Michelle Borowitz"
Background: Non-Hispanic Black or African American (hereafter Black) veterans lose less weight than other users of the Veterans Health Administration's (VHA) weight management program (MOVE!), despite higher enrollment.
Objective: To understand factors that affect weight loss disparities between Black veterans and other veterans.
Design: Qualitative study using Photovoice methods.
Externalizing behaviors in childhood often predict impulse control disorders in adulthood; however, the underlying bio-behavioral risk factors are incompletely understood. In animals, the propensity to sign-track, or the degree to which incentive motivational value is attributed to reward cues, is associated with externalizing-type behaviors and deficits in executive control. Using a Pavlovian conditioned approach paradigm, we quantified sign-tracking in 40 healthy 9-12-year-olds.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To determine latent classes of treatment receipt among people with comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorder (SUD) and describe each class by demographics, disease characteristics, and psychiatric diagnoses.
Method: Participants were National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions-III respondents with lifetime PTSD and SUD (n = 1,349; mean age 40.3; 62.
Objective: The current study examined whether adolescents with weight status ranging from lean to obesity showed weight-related differences in the default mode network (DMN), the executive function network (EFN), and the salience network (SN).
Methods: One hundred sixty-four adolescents participated in a resting-state functional connectivity scan. A general linear model was used to examine differences in scan patterns among adolescents with lean weight, overweight, and obesity.
Background: Over 60% of people have overweight or obesity, but only a third report receiving counselling from primary care providers. We explored patients' perspectives on the role of primary care in obesity management and their experience with existing resources, with a view to develop an improved understanding of this perspective, and more effective management strategies.
Methods: Qualitative study employing semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis, with a sample of 28 patients from a cohort of 255 patients living with obesity and receiving care to support their weight management in a large Primary Care Network of family practices in Alberta.