The Eating Recovery Center, a national, multisite treatment facility for patients with eating disorders, outlines strategies for using family-based treatment practices with adolescents who are receiving inpatient care for an eating disorder.
Data for this study were sourced from previously published data from 395 girls or women combined with a replication sample of 248 girls or women specifically recruited for this study.
Cynthia Bulik, PhD, and Helen Burton Murray, PhD, discuss the interrelatedness between gastrointestinal disorders and eating disorders and the need for more clinician awareness.
Eating disorders among adolescents have doubled since the start of the pandemic and patients are presenting with more severe symptoms.
Researchers examined the effect of neuropeptides orexin-A, ghrelin, and neuropeptide Y on hypersomnia and hyperphagia. Both symptoms are more common in people with bipolar disorder.
USPSTF determines that more research is needed to recommend for or against screening in people without symptoms and provides updates on effective screening tools and pharmacotherapies.
The researchers examined trends in health care for eating disorders from 2018 to 2020, together with other common behavioral health conditions, in a section of commercially insured individuals in the United States.
The researchers studied brain responses in young women with eating disorders and control group participants when an unexpected salient sweet stimulus was received or omitted.
