Dr. Angeline Bottera
- Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University Psychology and Brain Sciences
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Biography —
Dr. Angeline Bottera completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology at Trinity University, where she worked with Dr. Carolyn Becker. She completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Wyoming under the mentorship of Dr. Kyle De Young. She completed her internship/residency training at West Virginia University School of Medicine/Charleston Area Medical Center under the supervision and mentorship of Dr. Jessica Luzier. Dr. Bottera completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Midwest T32 Eating Disorders Program at the University of Chicago under the supervision and mentorship of Drs. Jennifer Wildes and Carol Peterson. Dr. Bottera has experience treating individuals with eating disorders at varying levels of care, including outpatient and partial hospitalization. She also has experience working with individuals with sleep-wake disorders (e.g., insomnia), mood, anxiety, borderline personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. In her spare time, Dr. Bottera enjoys spending time with her husband and friends/family, playing with her dog (Meli), hiking, playing board games, and baking.
Education —
Research —
Dr. Bottera leads a research program focused on improving the assessment and treatment of eating disorders, with a particular emphasis on binge eating and co-occurring sleep and other circadian disturbances. Her work examines how daily rhythms in eating, sleep, and appetite contribute to eating disorder symptoms, with the goal of identifying novel and more effective treatment targets.
Her research also focuses on expanding access to care through innovative mobile-health (mHealth) approaches. Overall, Dr. Bottera aims to improve eating disorder and related mental health treatment outcomes and evidence-based treatments by harnessing mHealth technology and implementation science techniques within clinical trials.
In addition to treatment development, Dr. Bottera collaborates on projects aimed at improving how eating disorders are assessed and identified in both research and clinical settings, with the goal of creating clinically useful tools that enhance identification, monitoring, and treatment planning.
Dr. Bottera’s research has been funded by the Department of Defense (DoD), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and American Heart Association (AHA).
Selected Publications —
Christensen Pacella, K.A., Bottera, A.R., & Wilkerson, A.K. (2025). Considering the impact and treatment of sleep and sleep disorders in eating disorder interventions. Psychiatry Clinics.
Ayres, J., Forbush, K.T., Bottera, A.R., Chen, Y., & Christensen Pacella, K.A (2025). Ecological momentary assessment of between- and within-person sleep quality as a predictor of disordered eating behaviors among young women with disordered eating. Appetite.
Irish, L., Bottera, A. R., Manasse, S., Christensen Pacella, K., & Schaefer, L. M. (2024). The integration of sleep research into eating disorders research: Recommendations and best practices. International Journal of Eating Disorders.
Bottera, A. R., Dougherty, E. N., Todorov, S., & Wildes, J. E. (2024). Fear of negative evaluation and intolerance of uncertainty: Assessing potential internalizing correlates of eating disorder-related clinical impairment and differences between diagnostic presentations. Eating Behaviors.
Bottera, A. R., Dougherty, E. N., Forester, G., Peterson, C., Crosby, R., Engel, S., Crow, S., Wildes, J. E., & Wonderlich, S. (2024). Changes in evening-shifted loss of control eating severity following treatment for binge-eating disorder. Psychological Medicine.
Bottera, A. R., & De Young, K. P. (2024). Loss of control eating exhibits an evening diurnal shift among women with bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder. European Eating Disorders Review, 32(1),56-65.
Kambanis, P. E., Bottera, A. R., & De Young, K. P. (2023). Responses to bright light exposure in individuals with binge-spectrum eating disorders characterized by high dietary restraint and negative affect. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 56(12), 2250-2259.
Bottera, A. R., & Luzier, J. L. (2023). Eating Disorder Treatment Dropout: What Factors Influence Access to Specialty Care in an Underresourced Appalachian Region?. Rural mental health, 47(2), 123–128. https://doi.org/10.1037/rmh0000230
Bottera, A. R., & De Young, K. P. (2023). Loss of control eating exhibits an evening diurnal shift among females with bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder. European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association, 10.1002/erv.3021. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.3021
Bottera, A. R., & De Young, K. P. (2023). Characterizing naturalistic meal timing, energy intake, and macronutrient intake among individuals with loss of control eating. Appetite, 184, 106524. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.106524
Kambanis, P. E., Bottera, A. R., & De Young, K. P. (2023). Responses to bright light exposure in individuals with binge-spectrum eating disorders characterized by high dietary restraint and negative affect. The International journal of eating disorders, 10.1002/eat.24054. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.24054
De Young, K. P., Kambanis, P. E., Bottera, A. R., & Mancuso, C. J. (2022). Development and validation of a scale for the tendency to exercise in response to mood, eating, and body image cues: the Reactive Exercise Scale (RES). Eating and weight disorders : EWD, 27(8), 3317–3330. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-022-01462-y
De Young, K. P., Bottera, A. R., & Kambanis, P. E. (2022). Sleep/waketime preference and delayed diurnal eating rhythms are associated through light exposure timing and modified by sleep efficiency. Appetite, 170, 105904. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105904
Kambanis, P. E., Bottera, A. R., & De Young, K. P. (2022). Development and validation of a questionnaire assessing weighing tendencies: the Approach/Avoidance of Weighing Questionnaire (AAWQ). Eating disorders, 30(3), 302–322. https://doi.org/10.1080/10640266.2020.1833620
Kambanis, P. E., Bottera, A. R., Mancuso, C. J., Spoor, S. P., Anderson, L. M., Burke, N. L., Eddy, K. T., Forbush, K. T., Keith, J. F., Lavender, J. M., Mensinger, J. L., Mujica, C., Nagata, J. M., Perez, M., & De Young, K. P. (2022). Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire and Clinical Impairment Assessment norms for intersectional identities using an MTurk sample. The International journal of eating disorders, 55(12), 1690–1707. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.23799
De Young, K. P., & Bottera, A. R. (2022). A biobehavioral circadian model of restrictive eating and binge eating. The International journal of eating disorders, 55(10), 1291–1295. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.23758De Young, K. P., & Bottera, A. R. (2022). A biobehavioral circadian model of restrictive eating and binge eating. The International journal of eating disorders, 55(10), 1291–1295. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.23758
Bottera, A. R., Mancuso, C. J., Kambanis, P. E., & De Young, K. P. (2021). Examining heart rate variability as an indicator of top-down inhibitory control over emotions and eating behaviors among individuals with and without binge eating. Appetite, 159, 105071. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2020.105071
Bottera, A. R., Kambanis, P. E., & De Young, K. P. (2020). The differential associations of shame and guilt with eating disorder behaviors. Eating behaviors, 39, 101427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2020.101427
Bottera, A. R., Thiel, A. M., & De Young, K. P. (2018). Negative affect and past month binge eating may drive perceptions of loss of control. Appetite, 128, 116–119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2018.06.008