The Handbook of the Neurobiology of Eating Disorders

Christina E. Wierenga, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego and a Fellow of Division 40 (Neuropsychology) of the American Psychological Association. Her programmatic research investigates cognitive, behavioral, and brain mechanisms underlying symptom expression in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa to guide development of neurobiologically informed treatments, utilizing neuropsychological, neuroimaging, and computational neuroscience approaches. As the Director of Research and a clinical psychologist in the UCSD Health Eating Disorders Center for Treatment and Research, she has been working with adolescents and adults with eating disorders for more than a decade. She also teaches and supervises graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Joanna E. Steinglass, MD is a Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. She is the Director of Research for the Eating Disorders Research Clinic and a Training Director for the research fellowship. Her interdisciplinary research investigates anorexia nervosa through study of the behavioral and neural mechanisms of illness, using tools from cognitive and computational neuroscience. She applies these insights to the development of behavioral, neuromodulatory, and pharmacological interventions.