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SWAN Research Group | Anorexia Nervosa & Other Eating Disorders | Based at Orygen/The University of Melbourne | Led by A/Prof Andrea Phillipou & team. Email: [email protected]
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We are excited to announce the 2025 Body Image & Related Disorders (BIRD) Conference. Please save the date for Friday the 7th of November. The conference will take place in Melbourne, Australia in a hybrid format. More information coming soon #EatingDisorders #BIRD2025

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📣Call for collaborators! 📣 We are looking for researchers worldwide who are interested in collaborating with us on a study to better understand the causes and maintaining factors of #Anorexia See our paper here and reach out for more info: doi.org/10.1016/j.ps...

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Our lab is currently conducting a trial to investigate CBT-AR as a treatment for avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (#ARFID). Read more about the study below ⬇️ #EatingDisorders

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I created a starter pack for Eating Disorders Research. No clue what I am doing, but maybe this will help us find each other in the great migration. #eatingdisorders go.bsky.app/SQwbxH5

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Eating disorders are inadequately treated, poorly understood & chronically underfunded. At Orygen, our research is focused on unlocking new approaches to improve the lives of all people affected by eating disorders. Find out more in the🔗& 🧵👇 1/6 orygen.org.au/About/News-A...

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📢📢 PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED📢📢 If you work in an eating disorders service and are interested in sharing your thoughts on treatment for ARFID, please reach out using the following link! tinyurl.com/helparfid

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📢📢Seeking PhD Students!📢📢 Are you interested in a PhD with our awesome team at The University of Melbourne/Orygen in #AnorexiaNervosa in 2025? We are taking expressions of interest until 30th Aug. Please email us at [email protected]! Please share widely!

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Our wonderful team member @stephmiles.bsky.social was featured in a news article over the weekend! Check out the article using the link below.

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Publication alert! Are you curious about the role of OCD symptoms and perfectionism in orthorexia nervosa? My PhD student Phillipa Huynh has just published her research on that topic and it is open access! #PsychSci 👩‍🔬 #ClinPsy 1/5 doi.org/10.1007/s405...

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Cognitive inflexibility is common in people with eating disorders (EDs) - but we also found poor cognitive flexibility in clinicians & researchers in EDs. In this paper, we discuss the clinical implications this rigidity may have on clinical practice & patient outcomes. doi.org/10.1080/1064...

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Our group is still split over several workplaces so it makes it even more special when we're able to get almost 2/3 of Swannies to catch up in-person for our end of year celebration! Happy holidays!!

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Thank you to everyone who tuned into the Body Image and Related Disorders (BIRD) Conference today. We hope that you enjoyed the program and learnt lots. If you missed the conference live, you can email us (see bio) for access to the recording.

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BIRD speaker Dr Erica Neill explains that although clinical trials are common in some mental health conditions such as schizophrenia (>2,000 trials in the past decade), very few clinical trials are conducted for anorexia nervosa (254 in the past decade).

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It was great to hear from our BIRD speakers on new treatments that are being developed for eating disorders. In Australia, trials on psilocybin, ketamine, and more are coming in 2024.

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We are currently hearing from PhD candidate Rosiel Elwyn about novel ketamine and zinc treatment for anorexia nervosa.

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For the BIRD conference, Prof. Genevieve Pepin discusses parents' experiences of taking their child with an eating disorder to the emergency department. Over an average of 2.67 years, families made 5.2 visits to emergency. The average wait time was 6.3 hours and many experiences were negative.

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The keynote speaker for the BIRD conference is A/Prof Kamryn Eddy. She begins her presentation by highlighting that even after 25 years of an eating disorder, recovery is still possible.

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The Body Image & Related Disorders (BIRD) Conference is next week! We can't wait to see you all online and hear about some novel research in our field. For more info, visit tinyurl.com/BIRD-2023

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