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How Eating Disorders Activate Different Neural Circuits: Guido Frank, MD

July 26, 2021 • Naomi Charalambakis Wilkerson • Season 1 • Episode 11

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Psychiatrist Guido Frank, MD, joins Picture Blurrfect to discuss his lab's most recent paper in JAMA Psychiatry that sheds light on how eating disorder behavior can activate different circuits in the brain that control food intake. Naomi and Dr. Frank also talk about the importance of treating depression and anxiety concurrently with eating disorder behavior during treatment and recovery.

Read more about Dr. Frank's work: https://profiles.ucsd.edu/guido.frank and view his most recent publication here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2781384

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