Primary Research Focus
The Kerver Lab’s program of research broadly aims to study factors that impact the development and maintenance of eating disorder psychopathology. More specifically, our work focuses on identifying real-time mechanisms of disordered eating behaviors and related symptomatology in the natural environment. Our other focus is on characterizing and evaluating the prognostic value of maladaptive eating behaviors and eating disorder psychopathology toward weight- and health-related outcomes among bariatric surgery patients.
Funding for research in the Kerver Lab has come in part from the “Center for Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Eating Behavior” - a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (CoBRE) funded by the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences (P20GM134969). More information on the Center for Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Eating Behavior can be found here.