Cynthia Bulik
Professor
Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Karolinska Institutet
Sweden
Biography
She is a clinical psychologist and has been conducting research and providing treatment for individuals with eating disorders since 1984. Although she has approached eating disorders from a variety of perspectives from animal models to clinical trials, her greatest contribution to eating disorders research has been via research using genetic epidemiologic methods including family, twin, and molecular genetic designs. She is the founding director of the University of North Carolina Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders
Research Interest
Epidemiology specialising in Eating Disorders
Publications
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Bulik CM, Thornton LM, Root TL, Pisetsky EM, Lichtenstein P, Pedersen NL. Understanding the relation between anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa in a Swedish national twin sample. Biological psychiatry. 2010 Jan 1;67(1):71-7.
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Bulik CM, Sullivan PF, Tozzi F, Furberg H, Lichtenstein P, Pedersen NL. Prevalence, heritability, and prospective risk factors for anorexia nervosa. Archives of general psychiatry. 2006 Mar 1;63(3):305-12.
