Eating Disorder Research News
February 23, 2025
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Feb. 13, 2025 — Eating behavior is associated with symptoms of pelvic floor disorders in middle-aged women. For example, higher consumption of highly processed ready-made foods and fast food increased the risk for ...
Jan. 28, 2025 — Calorie labels on restaurant menus are negatively impacting people with eating disorders, according to a new study. The review found that individuals who have been diagnosed with an eating disorder changed their behaviors if presented with a menu ...
Jan. 27, 2025 — A study showed that changes in the functioning of opioid neurotransmitters in the brain may underlie ...
Jan. 10, 2025 — More than half of 23-year-olds in a European study show restrictive, emotional or uncontrolled eating behaviors, according to new research. Structural brain differences appear to play a role in the ...
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Sep. 17, 2024 — The process of food intake appears to be organized at the cellular level like a relay race: during eating, the baton is passed between different teams of neurons until we have consumed the ...
Aug. 12, 2024 — Young children often display similar eating behavior as their parents, with a parent's own eating style influencing how they feed their ...
June 24, 2024 — Research shows that the increasingly popular weight-loss strategy is safe. Intermittent fasting has become an increasingly popular way to lose weight without counting calories. And a large body of ...
June 6, 2024 — Researchers have investigated the feasibility of a new home-administered treatment for binge eating disorder. The new treatment combines a gentle ...
May 28, 2024 — New research finds that binge-eating disorder symptoms may persist longer than once believed, finding 61 percent and 45 percent of individuals still experienced binge-eating disorder 2.5 and 5 years ...
Mar. 20, 2024 — Psychologists have discovered a circuit in the brain of mice that makes them crave food and seek it out, even when they are not hungry. When ...
Feb. 20, 2024 — The study looked at survey data from 3,670 young people in the UK and the Netherlands to investigate how appetite traits in early childhood might relate to the likelihood of developing eating ...
Jan. 4, 2024 — New research indicates that the eating disorder anorexia nervosa is associated with being an early riser, unlike many other disorders that tend to be ...
Oct. 18, 2023 — Children fall broadly into four eating categories, according to new research, and parents feed their children differently depending on those categories. ...
Oct. 17, 2023 — A new study has revealed a significant association between eating disorders and physical multimorbidity, shedding new light on the health risks faced by people with these conditions. The research ...
Earlier Headlines
Feb. 13, 2024 — New research examined how often people experiencing binge eating are also using cannabis recreationally, and whether patients who use cannabis experience more severe eating disorder symptoms or ...
Apr. 5, 2023 — Whether you're afraid of dogs, needles or enclosed spaces, one of the most effective interventions for this type of anxiety disorder is exposure therapy in which you confront your fear in a safe ...
Feb. 5, 2023 — Sadly, many family members, friends, and celebrities have suffered from anorexia nervosa, a severe psychiatric disorder associated with intense anxieties concerning weight, shape, and self-esteem. AN ...
Feb. 1, 2023 — ARFID is strongly influenced by genetic factors, according to a twin study examining this relatively new type of eating ...
Jan. 30, 2023 — Predominant stereotypes about eating disorders suggest that it is a condition mainly associated with girls from wealthy backgrounds. However, a new study found that boys living in disadvantaged ...
Jan. 18, 2023 — Eating disorders are stereotypically associated with adolescents and young adults. Growing evidence, however, suggests that these conditions can occur at any time during a woman's lifespan, ...
Dec. 12, 2022 — Research has revealed how a pathway in the brain that typically provides signals to stop eating may be altered by early life trauma. The discovery, obtained from studies in mice adds new perspective ...
Sep. 1, 2022 — Scientists hypothesize that circadian rhythm disruption is a psychopathology factor shared by a broad range of mental illnesses and that research into its molecular foundation could be key to ...
Aug. 29, 2022 — A small device that detects food craving-related brain activity in a key brain region, and responds by electrically stimulating that region, has shown promise in a pilot clinical trial in two ...
June 7, 2022 — New findings highlight clear differences in grey matter for people with anorexia nervosa and point to the importance of early treatment ...
May 11, 2022 — An analysis of 11 major psychiatric disorders offers new insight into why comorbidities are the norm when it comes to mental illness. The study suggests that while there is no single gene or set of ...
Apr. 29, 2022 — Though purging is often a condition associated with bulimia nervosa, new research at Ohio University suggests that a different kind of eating disorder could also be ...
Mar. 28, 2022 — Pregnant women with anorexia are at greater risk of having a stillbirth, underweight baby or pre-term birth, yet there are no clear guidelines for how doctors should manage the condition, according ...
Mar. 15, 2022 — Brain scans of children ages 9-10 with a type of eating disorder that causes uncontrollable overeating showed differences in gray matter density compared to their unaffected peers, according to a new ...
Feb. 28, 2022 — New research has revealed a key neural mechanism underlying the feeling of being unable to stop eating, the most salient aspect of binge episodes in eating disorders like bulimia ...