Behavioral Health Business May 21, 2024
Eating disorders have among the highest mortality rates of any psychiatric illness and remission rates among patients with eating disorders are, by some estimates, as low as 29%.
New treatment modalities are urgently needed to improve outcomes, especially for people with severe and enduring eating disorders, industry insiders told Behavioral Health Business.
Despite this, funding for eating disorder research remains low. Federal support for eating disorder research equated to $0.73 per affected person in 2015. In contrast, autism research received $58.65 per affected person, and schizophrenia received $86.97 per affected person.
While research dollars are scant, new research methods are on the horizon to improve outcomes for people with eating disorders.
Innovation is also needed to treat the wide...
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