**Claire Wilcox, MD *, is a board-certified psychiatrist and addiction psychiatrist, an associate professor of translational neuroscience at the Mind Research Network, a frequent guest of the Food Junkies podcast, and adjunct faculty at the University of New Mexico. She has worked in a variety of cl...

**Claire Wilcox, MD *, is a board-certified psychiatrist and addiction psychiatrist, an associate professor of translational neuroscience at the Mind Research Network, a frequent guest of the Food Junkies podcast, and adjunct faculty at the University of New Mexico. She has worked in a variety of 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 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants for her research in addiction neuroscience, and has published numerous academic works, including a textbook on food addiction titled Food Addiction, Obesity, and Disorders of Overeating *. She was associate editor of the New England Journal of Medicine Journal Watch from 2017-2020, blogs regularly on Psychology Today, and has written for Santa Fe Reporter and Science in the News, among others.