Cognitive therapy for bulimia
Wellcome Trust-funded research on cognitive behaviour therapy has led directly to a treatment for bulimia nervosa – a common and distressing eating disorder.
Cognitive behaviour therapy aims to help people understand and alter the thinking and behaviour patterns that may be at the root of their problems.
Over the past decade, Professor Chris Fairburn (a Wellcome Principal Research Fellow) and colleagues at the University of Oxford have explored the origins of bulimia nervosa and have developed a highly effective and specific cognitive therapy.
The therapy has been recommended for use within the NHS by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence.