3AW Breakfast\u2019s Rumour File heard that a Melbourne-based research team behind groundbreaking eating disorder intervention research is in danger of shutting down.<\/p>\n
The promising research involves a method of brain stimulation which has been trialled for the first time by Orygen researchers to treat anorexia.<\/p>\n
Press PLAY to hear why the project is at risk<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Head of Eating Disorders Research at Orygen, Associate Professor Andrea Phillipou told 3AW Breakfast \u201cfunding is incredibly difficult, I think for anyone to get, and it\u2019s even more difficult in the mental health conditions and in eating disorders specifically\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s still a lot of stigma around eating disorders, particularly anorexia nervosa, being seen as this sort of trivial thing that young females have and that it\u2019s not a real condition.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it is a very real and very serious psychiatric condition with the highest death rate of any mental illness,\u201d Phillipou continued.<\/p>\n
Image: Orygen\/Supplied<\/p>\n
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