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NORTH DAKOTA MEDICINE
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES
CHARLES E. KUPCHELLA, President, University of North Dakota
H. DAVID WILSON, Vice President for Health Affairs
Dean, School of Medicine and Health Sciences
WRITERS Pamela Knudson, Amanda Scurry
CONTRIBUTORS Blanche Abdallah, Wendy Opsahl
GRAPHIC DESIGN John Lee, Victoria Swift
PHOTOGRAPHY Chuck Kimmerle, Richard Larson, Wanda Weber
COVER ART John Lee
www.ndmedicine.org
DESIGN Eric Walter
CONTENT Amanda Scurry
NORTH DAKOTA MEDICINE (ISSN 0888-1456; USPS 077-680) is published five times a year (April, July, September, December, February) by the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Room 1000, 501 N. Columbia Road Stop 9037, Grand Forks, ND 58202-9037.
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All articles published in NORTH DAKOTA MEDICINE, excluding photographs and copy concerning patients, can be reproduced without prior permission from the editor.
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NIH Funds Anorexia Study
Stephen Wonderlich, Ph.D. professor and associate chair of clinical neuroscience at the University of North Dakota (UND) School of Medicine and Health Sciences’ Fargo campus, has received a major grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue his studies of the eating disorder, anorexia nervosa.
The nearly $2 million project, titled “Ecological Momentary Assessment of Anorexia Nervosa,” is a multi-site project involving UND, the Neuropsychiatric Research Institute (NRI) in Fargo, the University of Chicago School of Medicine, and the University of Minnesota School of Medicine. Funding for the four-year project is provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a division of NIH.
The study will utilize portable computer technology to assess anorexic people several times a day to gain a clearer understanding of the relationship between the environment and behaviors in anorexia nervosa. A group of 120 patients will capture their moods, stressful events and feelings about struggles they are having, when they occur rather than trying to recall them many days later with a health care provider.
“The benefit of this ‘diary technology’ approach is that it may help to identify aspects of anorexic individuals’ lives that may lead to more effective treatments for this condition,” said Wonderlich.
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