Nancy Zucker

Associate professor
Duke Center for Eating Disorders

Nancy Zucker is founder and director of the Duke Center for Eating Disorders and associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

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Girls with autism may stop eating to blunt social pain

By Nancy Zucker
19 October 2015 | 6 min read

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