Dr Başak İnce Çağlar
EDIFY Study Coordinator
- Research Associate
Biography
Başak İnce Çağlar is a postdoctoral research associate in the Centre for Research in Eating and Weight Disorders (CREW) at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London.
Başak joined the Eating Disorders Research Group in November 2021 as a Research Project Manager on the DAISIES trial, a multicentre randomised controlled trial comparing inpatient treatment-as-usual to a stepped-care day treatment approach. She is currently the Study Coordinator of EDIFY consortium, Eating Disorders: Delineating illness and recovery trajectories to inform personalised prevention and early intervention in young people.
Prior to joining the Eating Disorders Research Group, Başak worked as a Research Assistant between 2015-2020 and as an Assistant Professor between 2020-2021 in Turkey.
Başak completed her BA degree in Psychology at Istanbul Bilgi University, MSc degree in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience (specialising in Psychopathology) at Maastricht University, and MA and PhD degrees in Clinical Psychology at Istanbul Arel University.
Her PhD project focused on screening university students to identify young women at risk for developing eating disorders and conducting a randomized controlled feasibility trial to test the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary efficacy of a new intervention program on decreasing disordered eating attitudes and behaviours.
Throughout her studies, Başak has been involved in various research and clinical activities. She did both research and clinical internships at University College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital, focusing on children with Tourette syndrome, as well as at the Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, focusing on eating disorders.
She has also worked as a visiting researcher in the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at Tübingen University Hospital in Germany in a clinical pilot trial investigating the feasibility and efficacy of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) enhanced training for patients with binge eating disorders to increase cognitive control over eating behaviour.
Academic Profiles
Research Interests
- Eating disorders
- Body dissatisfaction
- Prevention and treatment approaches
- Neuroscience
Research
Centre for Research in Eating And Weight Disorders (CREW)
The Centre for Research in Eating And Weight Disorders aims to find out more about the neurobiological, genetic and psychological causes and consequences of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and other eating disorders, and to use that knowledge to develop new and better treatments.
EDIFY
EDIFY is a four-year programme of research focused on how we understand and treat eating disorders in young people.
Project status: Ongoing
Research
Centre for Research in Eating And Weight Disorders (CREW)
The Centre for Research in Eating And Weight Disorders aims to find out more about the neurobiological, genetic and psychological causes and consequences of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and other eating disorders, and to use that knowledge to develop new and better treatments.
EDIFY
EDIFY is a four-year programme of research focused on how we understand and treat eating disorders in young people.
Project status: Ongoing