Author:NRI Staff
Wonderlich receives NIH grant
to study anorexia nervosa
Fargo, N.D. – Dr. Stephen Wonderlich, a research scientist at the Neuropsychiatric Research Institute (NRI) and Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences (UND) has received a major grant from the National Institutes of Health to study anorexia nervosa.
Wonderlich, who is Director of Clinical Research at the Neuropsychiatric Research Institute and Co-Director of the Eating Disorder Institute, has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health. He is principal investigator on the four-year project, which will be carried out at the Eating Disorder Institute, with additional study sites at the University of Minnesota and the University of Chicago. The Eating Disorder Institute (EDI) is a clinical research center co-sponsored by MeritCare Health System, NRI and the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences. EDI is a comprehensive care center for individuals with eating disorders.
The NIMH grant is one of five federal grants currently underway at NRI and it will utilize portable computer technology to assess subjects several times per day to gain a clearer understanding of the relationship between the environment and behaviors in anorexia nervosa.
NRI, a not-for-profit research institute established in 1986, conducts research in eating disorders, obesity, and related conditions. Its staff of 9 scientists and research staff conduct both basic neuroscience research and clinical studies of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, obesity, and other disorders. Much of NRI’s work is funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health and private sponsors.
