Harry R. Kissileff

Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology


Positions

1962-1966 Predoctoral Fellow, Institute of Neurological Sciences and Department of Biology, Univ of Pennsylvania. Control of water intake and saline preference in rats with lateral hypothalamic lesions.
1966-1969 Guest Investigator, Rockefeller University. Electrophysiology of taste in sodium appetite, behavioral studies of preference for solutions in rats. Studies on the effects of preloads of food on suppression of food intake in rats.
1969-1971 Assistant Professor, Rockefeller University. Continuation of above. Developed a pellet?detecting eatometer and computerized analysis of meal patterns in rats.
1971-1976 Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy, Univ of Pennsylvania. Taught physiology to undergraduate premedical and allied health students. Research on patterns of eating in rats.
1976-1988 Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, St. Luke's?Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons. Development of a universal eating monitor and laboratory tests for food consumption, sensory evaluation and cognitive response to food and eating situations.
1981-1985 Director, Laboratory for Appetitive Behavior, Obesity Core Center, St. Luke's?Roosevelt Hospital Center.
1985- Director NY Obesity Research Center core laboratories for Human Ingestive Behavior and for Biostatistics and Computing.
1989- Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry and Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons.

Honors

1987-1988 President, Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior
1998- Eliot Stellar Award for Distinguished Service to the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior
2000-2002 Laboratory named in my honor, University of Liverpool, UK Senior Honorary Fellow University of Liverpool, UK

Selected Peer-reviewed Publications (in chronological order)

  1. Kissileff, H. R. Food?associated drinking in rats. J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 67: 284-300, 1969
  2. Kissileff, H. R. Free feeding in normal and recovered lateral rats monitored by a pellet-detecting eatometer. Physiol. and Behav. 5: 163-173., 1970
  3. Quartermain, D., H. R. Kissileff, R. Shapiro, and N. E. Miller. Intragastric loads in discrete meals produce greater suppression of food intake than continuous slow infusion. Science. 173: 941-943, 1971
  4. Kissileff, H.R., Klingsberg, G., Van Itallie, T.B. A Universal monitor for continuous measurement of solid and liquid food consumption in human subjects. Am. J. Physiol. R14-R22, 1980.
  5. Kissileff, H. R., L. P. Gruss, J. Thornton, and H. A. Jordan. The satiating efficiency of foods. Physiol. & Behav. 32(2): 319-332, 1984.
  6. Melton, P. A., H. R. Kissileff, and F. X. Pi-Sunyer. Cholecystokinin (CCK-8) affects gastric pressure and ratings of hunger and fullness in women. Am. J. of Physiol., 263,:R452-R456, 1992.
  7. Yanovski, S. Z., M. Leet, M. Flood, J. A. Yanovski, P. W. Gold, H. R. Kissileff, and B. T. Walsh. Food intake and selection of obese women with and without binge-eating disorder. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 1992, 56:975-980.
  8. Guss, J. L., H. R. Kissileff, B. T. Walsh, and M. J. Devlin. Binge eating behavior in patients with eating disorders. Obesity Research. 1994, 2:335-363.
  9. Guss, J. L., H. R. Kissileff, and F. X. Pi-Sunyer. Effects of glucose and fructose solutions on food intake and gastric emptying in nonobese women. Am. J. of Physiol. 1994, 36:R1537-1544.
  10. Wentzlaff, T., J. L., Guss, and H. R. Kissileff. Subjective ratings as a function of amount consumed: A Preliminary report. Physiol. and Behav., 1995, 57:1209-1214.
  11. Kissileff, H. R. Inhibition of eating in humans: Assessment, Mechanisms, and disturbances. Appetite, 25, 299,1995.
  12. Kissileff, H. R., T. H. Wentzlaff, J. L. Guss, B. T. Walsh, M. J. Devlin, and J. C. Thornton. A direct measure of satiety disturbance in patients with bulimia nervosa. Physiol. and Behav. 60:1077-1085, 1996.
  13. Kim, J. Y. and Kissileff, H. R. The effect of social setting on response to a preloading manipulation in nonobese women and men. Appetite 1996, 27:25-40.
  14. Kissileff, H. R., Guss, J.L., Nolan, L. What animal research tells us about human eating. In Food Choice, Acceptance and Consumption edited by H. Meiselman & H. J. H. MacFie, Blackie Academic (Div Chapman & Hall), New York and Glasgow, Scotland, pp. 104-160, 1996.
  15. Devlin, M.J., Walsh, B. T., Kissileff, H. R., Guss, J. L., Liddle, R. A., and Petkova, E. Postprandial cholecystokinin release and gastric emptying in patients with bulimia nervosa. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 65:114-120, 1997.
  16. Cooke, E. A. Guss, J.L., Kissileff, H. R., Devlin, M. J., and Walsh, B. T. Patterns of food selection during binges in women with binge eating disorder. Int. J. of Eating Disorders. 22:187-193, 1997.
  17. Kissileff, H. R., Dixon, L.H., and Guss, J.L. Measuring ingestion in humans. In Ingestive Behavior Protocols, edited by P. Wellman and B. Hoebel, Society for the Study of Inges tive Behavior, New York, pp. 55-69, 1997.
  18. Kissileff, H.R., Guss, J.L., Walsh, B.T., Zimmerli, E., Devlin, M.J., Dixon, L.H., Wolk, S., & Lucks, D.. The development of satiety in female patients with bulimia nervosa and normal controls during binge and normal eating episodes. Appetite, 31, 252(abstract). 1998.
  19. Guss, J. L., Kissileff, H. R., Zimmerli, E., Lucks, D., Devlin, M., & Walsh, B. T. The development of satiety in morbidly obese women with and without binge eating disorder. Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior Annual Meeting Program, 25, 1999.
  20. Kissileff, H. R. Physiological controls of single meals (eating episodes) in Dimensions of the Meal: The Science, Culture, Business and Art of Eating. Edited by Herbert L. Meiselman. Apsen Publishing Co. Gaithersburg, MD. pp. 63-91, 2000.
  21. Guss, J.L. and Kissileff, H. R. Microstructural analyses of human ingestive behavior: from description to mechanistic hypotheses. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 24:261-268, 2000.
  22. Kissileff, H.R. Ingestive behavior microstructure, basic mechanisms and clinical applications: Guest Editorial. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 24:171-172, 2000.
  23. Kral, JG, Buckley, MC, Kissileff, HR, & Schaffner, F. Metabolic correlates of eating behavior in severe obesity. International Journal of Obesity 25: 258-264, 2001.
  24. Kissileff, H. R. & Guss, J.L. Microstructure of Eating Behavior in Humans. Appetite 36 (1):70-78, 2001.
  25. Faith MS, Kermanshah M, Kissileff HR. Development and preliminary validation of a silhouette satiety scale for children. Physiol Behav 76:173-178, 2002.
  26. Guss JL, Kissileff HR, Zimmerli E, Walsh BT, Devlin MJ. Binge size increases with body mass index in subjects with Binge Eating Disorder. Obesity Research,. 10:1021-1029 2002.
  27. Nolan , LJ., Guss, JL, Liddle, RA, Pi-Sunyer, FX, and Kissileff, HR. Elevated plasma cholecystokinin and appetitive ratings after consumption of a liquid meal in humans. Nutrition 19:553-557, 2003
  28. Kissileff, H.R. Carretta, J.C., Geliebter, A. Pi-Sunyer, F. X. Cholecystokinin (CCK) and Stomach Distention Combine to Reduce Food Intake in Humans. Am. J. Physiol. 285: R992-R998, 2003.
  29. Walsh BT, Zimmerli E, Devlin MJ, Guss J, Kissileff HR. A disturbance of gastric function in bulimia nervosa. Biololgical Psychiatry 54(9):929-33 ,2003.
  30. Kissileff HR. The Future of research on appetitive behavior: 30th Anniversary of the Columbia University Seminar on Appetitive Behavior. Appetite 42:1-3, 2004.

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