Eating Disorders are Brain based

Rachel Marsh, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology (in Psychiatry) in the 

Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 

Marianne Russo, Founder, President and Host of The Coffee Klatch Special Needs Talk Radio Network will be the moderator

Her talk is focusing on Bulimia Nervosa- a disorder that is arising with increasing prevalence among teenage girls.

She will speak about her research studies of using MRI, and showing abnormalities in certain brain circuits that mediate impulse control and why girls engage in such impulse behaviors explaining behaviors such as binge eating, shoplifting and drug abuse.

Contact info  for the clinic http://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/eatingdisorders/ or call 646-774-8066

for research studies http://www.teenbulimiastudy.org

To listen to any of our previous archived episodes on topics such as child and adolescent mental health, OCD, or substance abuse please go to blogtalkradio.com/columbiapsychiatrynyspi