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Board of Honors Tutors
Dr. David Jimerson
Professor of Psychiatry (Harvard Medical School), Psychiatry Research Unit Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
djimerso@caregroup.harvard.edu
Would consider serving as:
Thesis Reader
Research Placement
Research Interests:
Work in our unit focuses on clinical symptom patterns and neurobiological correlates in patients with bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa, and related eating disorder syndromes. We are currently interested, for example, in the possible role of dysregulation in central serotonin and leptin pathways in abnormal eating patterns in these disorders. Another area of current research involves assessment or behavioral characteristics in individuals who have recovered from a past eating disorder. For projects in our unit, it is generally most helpful when students have had course work in psychopathology, areas of neurobiology related to their research interest, and statistics. Previous participation in a research project is often a significant advantage.
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