A team of clinical scientists from the Michigan State University Department of Psychology and Texas A&M University’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has been awarded a $3.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to assess the impact of testosterone on binge eating risk in women.
“We are incredibly grateful for this funding and the opportunity to pursue rigorous science in an important but understudied area of women’s health,” said Kristen Culbert, a co-lead of this study and research specialist in MSU’s psychology department. “Binge eating affects approximately 1 in 6 women and is associated with significant medical complications, yet we still have major gaps in our understanding of the biological factors that contribute to risk.”
This study, also co-led by MSU Research Foundation Distinguished Professor Kelly Klump and TAMU Associate Professor Shaunna Clark, is the first to examine testosterone effects on binge eating risk in women.