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Eating Disorder Statistics: What the Numbers Reveal

Eating disorders are a group of complex mental health conditions that involve disturbances in eating behaviors, body image, and self-esteem. They include anorexia nervosa, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), binge-eating [...]
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Anorexia Nervosa: 2020 Research on Long Term Outcomes, Growth Retardation, and Other Medical Consequences

Eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), binge eating disorder (BED), and others, have increased in prevalence over the past 25 years. While experts have discussed changes [...]
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2020 Breakthrough Research in Anorexia Nervosa: Drs. Cynthia Bulik and Walter Kaye

Neurons setting off the danger warning due to health anxiety

Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a puzzle for many reasons. What is it, and what can we do to treat it are commonly asked questions by students and health professionals alike? [...]
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New Developments in the Study of Anorexia

Contributor: Colleen O’Sullivan, RDN at Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center Researchers, medical doctors, and the mental health community know a great deal about the disease of anorexia and the study [...]
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Practical Neurobiology for Clinicians: Eating Disorder Diagnoses & Neurology – Part VI

environmental factors of Eating Disorders

When looking at individuals with bulimia, there is more dopamine drive in this reward chemical. As such, you can’t only focus on eating. You have to also watch for drug [...]
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Practical Neurobiology for Clinicians: Eating Disorder Diagnoses & Neurology – Part V

image of Genetics of Eating Disorders in the brain

It is only in the last 20 years that the idea of anorexia as a biologic controlled genetic mental illness has come about. For so long, treatment focused on the need [...]
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Practical Neurobiology for Clinicians: Eating Disorder Diagnoses & Neurology – Part III

Image of brain on how to change the Eating Disorder Cycle

As a child psychiatrist, I don’t often get a lot of biological information. I’ll see if someone has anorexia by how their body looks, whether or not they are malnourished, [...]
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Practical Neurobiology for Clinicians: Eating Disorder Diagnoses & Neurology – Part II

The job that this DSM-5 provides is to help answer the question of whether or not an individual meets the criterion and may have an eating disorder. However, there is a [...]
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Practical Neurobiology for Clinicians: Eating Disorder Diagnoses & Neurology – Part I

Image of brain the neurobiology of Eating Disorder Diagnoses

I am the Medical Director here at Laureate Eating Disorders Program. I’ve been here for almost 15 years now, and I really enjoy getting the ability to work with patients both [...]
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Update on Current Research in the Eating Disorder Field

Current Research on Anorexia Studies: There are various studies around Anorexia Nervosa due to the longer diagnosis and funding for research within the Western society. Various studies have looked at [...]
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Category: Featured Research

Eating Disorder Statistics: What the Numbers Reveal

Anorexia Nervosa: 2020 Research on Long Term Outcomes, Growth Retardation, and Other Medical Consequences

2020 Breakthrough Research in Anorexia Nervosa: Drs. Cynthia Bulik and Walter Kaye

New Developments in the Study of Anorexia

Practical Neurobiology for Clinicians: Eating Disorder Diagnoses & Neurology – Part VI

Practical Neurobiology for Clinicians: Eating Disorder Diagnoses & Neurology – Part V

Practical Neurobiology for Clinicians: Eating Disorder Diagnoses & Neurology – Part III

Practical Neurobiology for Clinicians: Eating Disorder Diagnoses & Neurology – Part II

Practical Neurobiology for Clinicians: Eating Disorder Diagnoses & Neurology – Part I

Update on Current Research in the Eating Disorder Field

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