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Dr Michaela Flynn

Research Associate

Biography

I started my studies in psychological medicine at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia and graduated in 2014 with a Bachelor of Psychology with Honours. Following this I worked as a researcher worker on a range of projects with Macquarie University’s Centre for Emotional Health and their Centre for Cognition and Cognitive Disorders.

In 2016, I travelled to London to join the King’s Eating Disorders Research Group, first as a Research Worker on the First Episode Rapid Early Intervention for Eating Disorders scaling up project, and then later as a PhD student looking at the potential for using brain-directed treatments for the treatment of Binge Eating Disorder (Supervised by Prof Ulrike Schmidt and Prof Iain Campbell). Specifically, my PhD will look at whether combining attention training with a non-invasive form of brain stimulation (called transcranial direct current stimulation) may improve symptoms of craving and urge to binge in adults with binge eating disorder.

    Research

    Hundreds of young people with eating disorders to benefit from early intervention FREED service
    Centre for Research in Eating And Weight Disorders (CREW)

    The Eating Disorders Research Group aims to find out more about the neurobiological, genetic and psychological causes and consequences of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and other eating disorders, and to use that knowledge to develop new and better treatments.

      Research

      Hundreds of young people with eating disorders to benefit from early intervention FREED service
      Centre for Research in Eating And Weight Disorders (CREW)

      The Eating Disorders Research Group aims to find out more about the neurobiological, genetic and psychological causes and consequences of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and other eating disorders, and to use that knowledge to develop new and better treatments.