By Chloe Xiang May 30, 2023, 2:42 pm The National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) has taken its chatbot called Tessa offline, two days before it was set to replace human associates who ran the organization’s hotline. After NEDA workers decided to unionize in early May, executives announced that on June 1, it would be ending the...
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APA Releases Updated Eating Disorder Guidelines
Kelli Whitlock Burton March 03, 2023 The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has released updated practice guidelines for the management of eating disorders, the first update in 16 years. The updated guidelines focus primarily on anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), and binge-eating disorder (BED) and include recommendations for screening and treatment. “Eating disorders often are unrecognized and untreated,” Catherine Crone, MD, chair of the guideline...
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Serious eating disorder ARFID is highly heritable, according to new twin study
KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET VIDEO: ARFID IS STRONGLY INFLUENCED BY GENETIC FACTORS, ACCORDING TO A NEW STUDY EXAMINING THIS RELATIVELY NEW TYPE OF EATING DISORDER. LISA DINKLER, A POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER AT THE DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY AND BIOSTATISTICS AT KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET EXPLAINS MORE ABOUT ARFID AND THE STUDY SHE CARRIED OUT. CREDIT: KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET ARFID is strongly...
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Research reveals key differences in the brains of boys and girls with binge eating disorder
by Keck School of Medicine of USC Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Conducting the first known comparison of the brains of boys and girls with binge eating disorder, a team of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC found significant differences in brain structure between the sexes. The research was recently published in Psychological Medicine....
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Does your loved one have an eating disorder? Look for these 7 signs
Roughly 30 million Americans have an eating disorder in their lifetime, and calls to a nationwide support group have surged during the COVID-19 pandemic. Between March 2020 and October 2021, the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) recorded a 58% increase in calls, texts and emails seeking help. Behind opioid addiction, eating disorders have the second highest risk of death of...
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Higher-weight people and eating disorders
by La Trobe University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain National guidelines have been released for the first time to help health professionals better support people with higher weight and living with eating disorders. Developed by eating disorder experts including researchers, clinicians and people with lived experience, in partnership with the National Eating Disorders Collaboration, the guidelines were published...
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Experts discover brain differences in young children with binge eating disorder
by Leigh Hopper, University of Southern California Credit: Psychiatry Research (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114473 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 USC-led study. Binge eating disorder, which affects about 3–5% of the U.S. population, is...
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Eating disorder symptoms and self-harm linked to higher levels of depression and anxiety during COVID-19 pandemic
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL The study, led by the University of Bristol and funded by Elizabeth Blackwell Institute, Medical Research Council, and Medical Research Foundation, has been published in the Journal of Eating Disorders. It looked at questionnaire information for 2,657 individuals from world-renowned health study Children of the 90s (also known as the Avon Longitudinal...
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Vaping is linked to heightened eating disorder risk among U.S. college students
by University of Toronto Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study published in the journal Eating Behaviors found that vaping or e-cigarette use is associated with a heighted risk of developing an eating disorder among US college students. This finding is particularly important given the common use of vape pens and e-cigarettes and an increase in the prevalence...