Summary
My principal research interests are social connectedness, psychedelics, eating disorders, obesity, food addiction, cognitive bias, and oxytocin plus the combination thereof.
I am also intellectually curious about hippocampal neurogenesis during ketosis, lactobacillus reuteri and vagally derived potentiation of central oxytocin, and UV light’s relationship to reward.
Publications
Journals
Powell R, Burmester V, Waddingham E, et al. , 2024, A cross-sectional study of the psychosocial and occupational impact of COVID-19 among NHS staff: findings from a Northwest London cohort during the second wave, F1000research, Vol:13, ISSN:2046-1402
Burmester V, Nicholls D, 2023, Negative interpretation bias in females with bulimia nervosa, Mental Health Science, Vol:1, ISSN:2642-3588, Pages:195-201
Kadirvelu B, Bellido Bel T, Wu X, et al. , 2023, Mindcraft, a mobile mental health monitoring platform for children and young people: development and acceptability pilot study, Jmir Formative Research, Vol:7, ISSN:2561-326X, Pages:1-13
Brakspear L, Boules D, Nicholls D, et al. , 2022, The impact of COVID-19-related living restrictions on eating behaviours in children and adolescents: a systematic review, Nutrients, Vol:14, ISSN:2072-6643, Pages:1-20
Burmester V, Butler GK, Terry P, 2022, Intranasal oxytocin reduces attentional bias to food stimuli, Appetite, Vol:168, ISSN:0195-6663, Pages:1-10