In the United States, the Harvard Medical School and The Foundation for Research and Education in Eating Disorders are collaborating to establish a storage facility for the brains of recently deceased persons with eating disorders.
It is hoped that this will become an invaluable resource for researchers worldwide seeking to understand how eating disorders alter the structure of the brain.
Conditions such as anorexia, nervosa and others arising from malnutrition are not always seen as as disorders of the physical mind, a conception that researches involved in the project feel is not always the case and hope to challenge.