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CAN GENETIC RESEARCH HELP US IMPROVE TREATMENT OUTCOME FOR EATING DISORDERS?

by Therese Johansson, Karolinska Institutet Eating disorders arise from a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Eating disorders affect millions of people around the world, are life-disrupting, and in some cases can be life-threatening. Unfortunately, no easy test exists, like a blood test, that can tell us if someone has an eating disorder. Likewise, we […]

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Eating disorders bear the brunt of the paucity in mental health research funding

This article was originally published on The Psych PhD Pathway, Nov 2020. 795,700. This number is the total for published research articles that pop up on Google scholar using the search terms “eating disorders”, “anorexia”, “bulimia” and “binge-eating disorder” for the last decade (Google Scholar, August 28, 2020). This sounds encouraging, but this is less […]

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