Ariana Pizadeh holds a MS in Addiction Research and Clinical Health (with a focus on Neuroscience and Neurosomatics) from Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
She also holds BS in Psychology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, complemented by experience as a Research Program Assistant at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and certification as a Neurosomatic Practitioner.
Ariana applies this rich and robus background to her work at NRFi.
On the research side of things, Ariana leads and co-leads our Neurosomasotensory Processing and Interceoption in Binge Eating Disorder (BED) Research Project Teams, in addition to contributing to our Mapping Environemtnal Factors in BED Team. We are excited for the upcoming submission of her co-first-author manuscripts (planned for submission in Spring, 2025; see full citations below).
On the clinical side of things, Ariana also contributes content to the NRFi Binge Eating Disorder textbook and workbook, and to our Clinical Applications Series that provides free educational and interventional content for indivdiuals with binge eating disorder, eating disorders, and/or mental health disparity more broadly.
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Pirzadeh,* Lamichhane,* Kalu,* Nauss, Barnett, Tesha, Zwickey, Bradley, Bray, Bray, Bray. (Planned Submission March, 2025). Network Mapping of Environmental Factors Associated with Binge Eating Disorder
*Pirzade, Lamichhane, & Kalu are co-first authors on this work.
Pirzadeh,* Nadershahi,* Nauss, Ashton, Barnett, Kalu, Zwickey, Bray. (Planned Submission May, 2025). Interoception in Binge Eating Disorder: A Narrative Review.
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