Episode 115: Dr. Claire Wilcox, MD (Part 2)

Happy Friday Food Junkies Listeners! Today I and Clarissa dive deeper into food addiction treatment with Dr. Claire Wilcox and the three of us get passionate about the topic.

Dr. Wilcox, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist and addiction psychiatrist, an associate professor of

translational neuroscience at the Mind Research Network and adjunct faculty at the University of

New Mexico. She has worked in various clinical settings, including a medical weight loss clinic and an eating disorder treatment facility, and she completed an internal medicine residency before her psychiatry residency. She has been awarded NIH grants and published numerous academic works, some in prestigious academic journals, including a study on the relationship between dopamine function and overeating behavior, and a textbook on food addiction entitled Food Addiction, Obesity and Disorders of Overeating an Evidenced Based Assessment and Clinical Guide with Springer, the latter of which has seen over 5000 downloads since October of 2021.

She has given numerous talks and training on the neurobiology of overeating in her career. She identifies herself as a writer, too. She was an associate editor of the New England Journal of Medicine Journal Watch from 2017-2020 and has written numerous educational blog posts and continuing medical education materials on a variety of medical and psychiatric topics including eating disorders, and blogs regularly on Psychology Today. She’s written for the Santa Fe Reporter, New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, Your Tango, Science in the News, and the Telluride Watch. She’s also published some personal essays under a pseudonym in literary magazines and is revising an as-yet-unpublished novel called Grit. In May of 2022, she attended the Santa Fe Science Writers Workshop and is a member of the American Medical Writer’s Association, the National Association of Science Writers, and the Food Addiction Professionals Network. Finally, she is in recovery from sugar, alcohol, and cigarette addiction.

In this interview:

Assessment to determine treatment

Subtypes in Food Addiction

Specific tools clients can use based on subtypes

Emotional Eating

Volume Addiction

Misconceptions we need to be aware of

The concept of recovery

Weight/body stigma

Follow Claire:

Website: https://www.wilcoxmd.com/

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Food-Addiction_-Obesity_-and-Disorders-of-Overeating_-An-Evidence_Based-Assessment-and-Clinical-Guide/dp/3030830772

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/claire.wilcox.315

Twitter: https://twitter.com/clairewilcoxmd

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-wilcox-b08867174/

The content of our show is educational only. It does not supplement or supersede your healthcare provider's professional relationship and direction. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified mental health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition, substance use disorder, or mental health concern.