Project Summary

Rachel Marsh, Ph.D. (Young Investigator 2007) of New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, will use functional magnetic resonance imaging to explore disturbances in the brain that may contribute to impairments in depressed adolescents with bulimia nervosa. Dr. Marsh and her colleagues will examine signal change in brain regions that mediate self-regulatory control processes in bulimia, and correlate these with clinical measures of bulimic and depressive symptoms. The goal is better understanding of the neural basis of self-regulatory control and the contributions of depression to the disturbances of bulimia, which should foster better treatments for bulimia, which is both a cause and consequence depression.

Program Area: EATING DISORDERS\Bulimia Nervosa

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