Marina has a BSc in Biomedical Sciences, at Queen Mary University of London and an MSc in Genes Environment and Development in Psychology and Psychiatry from the Institute of Psychology and Psychiatry, at King’s College London (KCL). During her MSc dissertation, she worked with structural and functional neuroimaging data to identify neural trajectories of disordered eating behaviours, in a longitudinal population-based sample. Following her MSc, she worked as a research assistant at KCL in the ESTRA study, which aims to investigate the aetiology and underpinning mechanisms of Eating Disorders and comorbid mental illnesses. Marina joined Katlab in September 2021, as a PhD student.
Contact: marina.bobou.21@ucl.ac.uk
Publications
Desrivières, S., Zhang, Z., Robinson, L., Whelan, R., Jollans, L., Wang, Z., Nees, F., Chu, C., Bobou, M., Du, D., Cristea, I., … Schmidt, U. (2024). Machine learning models for diagnosis and risk prediction in eating disorders, depression, and alcohol use disorder. Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3777784/v1
Qi, L., Robinson, L., Zhang, Z., Bobou, M., et al. (2023). Differing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people’s mental health: combined population and case-control study. BJPsych Open .
Bobou, M., Heim, N., Tanzer, M., Jenkinson, P. M., Steinert, C., & Fotopoulou, A. (2023). Psychological interventions for interoception in mental health disorders: A systematic review of randomized-controlled trials. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. Link
Xie, C., Xiang, S., Shen, C., Peng, X., Kang J., Li, Y., Cheng, W., He, S., Bobou, M. et al. (2023). A shared neural basis underlying psychiatric comorbidity. Nature Medicine, 29, 1232–1242. Link
Robinson, L., Zhang, Z., Jia, T., Bobou, M., et al. (2020). Association of Genetic and Phenotypic Assessments With Onset of Disordered Eating Behaviors and Comorbid Mental Health Problems Among Adolescents. JAMA Network open, 3, . Link
Zhang, Z., Robinson, L., Campbell, I., Irish, M., Bobou, M., Winterer, J., Zhang, Y., King, S., Vaidya, N., Broulidakis, M. J., van Noort, B. M., Stringaris, A., Banaschewski, T., Bokde, A. L. W., Brühl, R., Fröhner, J. H., Grigis, A., Garavan, H., Gowland, P., Heinz, A., … STRATIFY Consortia (2024). Distinct personality profiles associated with disease risk and diagnostic status in eating disorders. Journal of affective disorders, 360, 146–155. Link