The Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) — a global professional association committed to leadership in eating disorders research, education, treatment and prevention — is pleased to announce a new informational resource, “Eating Disorders: Critical Points for Early Recognition and Medical Risk Management in the Care of Individuals with Eating Disorders,” which is now freely accessible […]
About 3 percent of U.S. adolescents are affected by an eating disorder, but most do not receive treatment for their specific eating condition, according to an NIMH-funded study published online ahead of print March 7, 2011, in the Archives of General Psychiatry. Kathleen Merikangas, Ph.D., of NIMH and colleagues analyzed data from the National Comorbidity […]
Women suffering from anorexia or bulimia draw themselves with prominently different characteristics than women who do not have eating disorders and who are considered of normal weight. This has been revealed in a new joint study from the University of Haifa, Soroka University Medical Center and Achva Academic College, Israel, published in The Arts in […]
Facebook users are more prone to develop eating disorders. The same has been found with regard to exposure to music and fashion on the Internet, and to harmful programs on TV. The study also reveals that the risk of developing eating disorders in adolescent girls is moderated when there is more parental supervision over viewing […]
The International Journal of Eating Disorders presented a special issue in 2009, exploring some controversies in the diagnosis of eating disorders, which have implications for how they may appear with the publication of the American Psychiatric and Statistical Manual of Diagnoses of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM V). The DSM V is due out in […]
Food presented in a virtual reality (VR) environment causes the same emotional responses as real food. Researchers writing in BioMed Central’s open access journal Annals of General Psychiatry compared the responses of people with anorexia and bulimia, and a control group, to the virtual and real-life snacks, suggesting that virtual food can be used for […]
Our brains contain a highly distorted model of our own bodies, according to new research by scientists at UCL (University College London). A study published today, which focused on the brain’s representation of the hand, found that our model of our bodies is out of sync with reality – with a strong tendency to think […]
The American Psychiatric Association’s proposed diagnostic criteria for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) will include new recognition of binge eating disorder and minor changes in the criteria for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Other recommended changes acknowledge that some eating disorders identified as beginning in infancy and […]
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