It's once again time for your weekly Sunday Smorgasbord, where I trawl the web for the latest in ED-related news, research, and more, so you don't have to.

Is migraine a risk factor for the occurrence of eating disorders? Prevalence and biochemical evidences.

An Unrealized Dream: A competitive figure skater leaves the sport to tackle bulimia.

Epidemiology of Eating Disorders: Incidence, Prevalence and Mortality Rates.

Preliminary examination of a couple-based eating disorder prevention program.


Preteen Food Choices May Help Predict Eating Disorders Later.


Set shifting and central coherence as neurocognitive endophenotypes in eating disorders: A preliminary investigation in twins.

Questions Quickly Uncover Eating Disorders. (Honestly, I don't think these questions are as useful as the doctors think they will be. I do, however, like the premise.)

Many anorexia patients perceive their bodies as larger than they are (it's not just the models that cause body image distortion!)

Exercise isn't always a universal good.

Live in SoCal and have AN? Participate in a research study looking at similarities and differences between AN and body dysmorphic disorder.

Many Mysteries Unsolved in Binge-Eating Disorder.

An Explanation of BMI and its shortcomings.

A Father's Battle To Change The Future Of Brain Research.

Residual Stigma of Obesity May Persist Even After Weight Loss.

Researchers identify protein necessary for behavioral flexibility.

What it is like to be a man with an eating disorder? Too often, help and discussion is targeted only at women.

Studies Find Conflicting Data for Olanzapine in Anorexia.

Eating Disorder Poses Problem in Some Diabetics. The last line, made me beat my head against my desk. Yes, let's tell people who may have an eating disorder that they should exercise more.

It's once again time for your weekly Sunday Smorgasbord, where I trawl the web for the latest in ED-related news, research, and more, so you don't have to.

Chances Are, What You Know About Eating Disorders is Wrong.

Psychologists warn on term 'mentally ill'.

Observed connection and individuation: Relation to symptoms in families of adolescents with bulimia nervosa.

How I Learned to Stop Fearing My Reflection.

Binge eating disorder in elderly individuals.

Eating Disorders and Technology: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Concurrent validity of self-report measures of eating disorders in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.

The Neuroscience of Bad Habits: Dr. Nora Volkow.

Comorbid Diabetes and Eating Disorders in Adult Patients: Assessment and Considerations for Treatment.

Transgender youth research reveals body dissatisfaction, risk of eating disorders.

Recovery Can Feel a Lot Like Sky Diving.

Binge Eating Disorder and the Dopamine D2 Receptor: Genotypes and Sub-Phenotypes.

Parental Support During Maudsley Family Based Therapy.

Bread and Circus (Hold the Bread): Weight of the Nation Deserves an Imperial Thumbs Down.

Direct and indirect effects of stress on bulimic symptoms and BMI: the mediating role of irrational food beliefs.

SAMHSA’s Working Definition of Recovery Updated.

There's nothing glamorous about having an eating disorder.

Proposed changes to diagnostic criteria for eating disorders: What do they mean for sufferers?

Subtypes in bulimia nervosa: the role of eating disorder symptomatology, negative affect, and interpersonal functioning.

Increased Capacity to Delay Reward in Anorexia Nervosa.

A Double Burden: Emotional Eating and Lack of Cognitive Reappraisal in Eating Disordered Women.

It's once again time for your weekly Sunday Smorgasbord, where I trawl the web for the latest in ED-related news, research, and more, so you don't have to.

{{Sorry it's late. Usually the melatonin I take starts to work gently, but I was totally out by 10:30pm last night.}}

Study suggests that obsessive beliefs and cognitive (in)flexibility are related.

The Food Addiction debate: NIDA Director says YES, food can be addictive and do harm. I have mixed thoughts on the subject myself.

Are Eating Disorders Heritable? The role of genetics and personality traits in the development of eating disorders.

Nutrition agnosticism. By one of my favorite thinkers and all-around great person Michelle, the Fat Nutritionist.

Is autism over-diagnosed? Writer Amy Harmon tries to capture the debate over whether 1 in 88 are truly affected.

Thinking about eating food activates neural circuits that may underlie cognitive biases towards food stimuli and ruminations about controlling food intake in anorexia.

NPR segment on early puberty followed by Cindy Bulik discussing the pitfalls of putting your child on a diet a la Vogue article.

Check out "It's time to talk about it: The Brain and Eating Disorders" panel discussion at Stanford University.

Dieting around the time a baby is conceived raises risk of the child becoming obese or getting diabetes, says study.

Anorexia nervosa, autoimmunity and the hygiene hypothesis. It's a fascinating idea...I have no idea whether it's right, but it raises some very interesting questions.

Recent demonstration of altered serotonin binding associated with bulimia.

Neural responses to emotional faces in women recovered from anorexia nervosa.

Great article about the overlap between obesity & eating disorders, and their shared risk factors.

A review of the definitions of outcome used in the treatment of bulimia nervosa.

Adult onset eating disorders on the rise. I don't know about you, but the banner ad when I read the article was for bariatric surgery. Well played, Balanced Living, well played.

Loss Of Appetite Deciphered In Brain Cell Circuit: Therapeutic Targets Also Discovered For Potential Treatments For Eating Disorders.

The Obesity-Eating Disorder Paradox.

Role of ghrelin in the pathophysiology of eating disorders: implications for pharmacotherapy.

Expert carer coaches – new research reveals a spark in the ED darkness.

Anorexia continues to have a negative impact on quality of life even after resolution of symptoms.

Cognitive remediation therapy for children and adolescents with eating disorders resource pack.

How do we know a treatment really works? How reliable is the evidence? Read free e-book "Testing Treatments".

Coherence and other autistic spectrum traits and eating disorders: Building from mechanism to treatment.

It's once again time for your weekly Sunday Smorgasbord, where I trawl the web for the latest in ED-related news, research, and more, so you don't have to.

Keeping Your Sobriety in the Psych Ward. This is exactly what my trips to the psych ward were like, except I had a schizophrenic stalker who would stare at me during groups. Trust me, pal, I'm not here to get a date.

Cognitive Remediation and Emotion Skills Training for Anorexia Nervosa: An Observational Study Using Neuropsychological Outcomes.

The University of Minnesota Department of Psychiatry is seeking adult females with anorexia nervosa to participate in a study. Contact information if you click the link.

Weight-based discrimination, in "reverse".

A Longitudinal Transactional Risk Model for Early Eating Disorder Onset.

Anxiety Linked to Heightened Sense of Smell. Calvin Klein's next fragrance: Eau de Panic.

Social reward and rejection sensitivity in eating disorders: An investigation of attentional bias and early experiences.

If you're like me and need just one more book on your reading list to feel complete (according to Goodreads, I'm 50+ books in the hole and the list is nowhere near stopping): Fear of Food: A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat

Nonspecific predictors of weight gain in the early stages of outpatient cognitive behavioral therapy for adults with anorexia nervosa.

How are different body parts connected to the emotions we traditionally associate with them?

Healthy bodies come in all shapes and sizes.

75 Bold Tips for When Fear Grips Your Mind.

Scottish MP calls for limitation of info presented in stories on EDs to prevent copycats. Most of the info on lowest weights and other "techniques" really only serve the public's voyeuristic tendencies anyway...you can tell a good story on EDs without that information.

Possible causes of sudden onset anorexia, OCD in kids broadened.

For moms with postpartum depression, the nation's first inpatient treatment center.

Intense Aromas Lead To Smaller Bites.

People with autism have a greater ability to process information.

But it’s not like an article can hurt anyone, right?

Can Genes Send You High or Low? The Orchid Hypothesis A-Bloom.


What if We're Wrong About the "Cause" of Mental Illness? What if serious mental illness is entirely unrelated to lousy parents?

Family-based Early Intervention for Anorexia Nervosa.

It's once again time for your weekly Sunday Smorgasbord, where I trawl the web for the latest in ED-related news, research, and more, so you don't have to.

Research team delves into the roots of hunger and eating.

Can a child as young as eight suffer from an eating disorder?

How bulimia ruined my teeth. (As a side note, you don't have to vomit to have an eating disorder wreck your teeth. My teeth were in great shape, but my body was so desperate for calcium that it took it not just from my bones but also from my teeth.)

Mindful Eating as Way to Fight Bingeing.

Openness about eating disorders is overdue.

Diet Soda Increases Heat Attack Risk, Says New Study. (As I, um, take a sip of Diet Coke...)

Refeeding Regimens for Anorexia Challenged.

Eight Keys to Life Hardiness and Resiliency.

Loneliness and eating disorders.

The Bold New Definition of Addiction.

NeuroCounseling: Simple Therapeutic Interventions for Rewiring the Maladaptive Brain.

Does internet-based prevention reduce the risk of relapse for anorexia nervosa?

When Classic Art Gets The Photoshop Treatment.

The comorbidity between eating disorders and anxiety disorders: Prevalence in an eating disorder sample and anxiety disorder sample.

At the gym: who is looking at whom - The Oatmeal. This ex-gym-goer finds this amusingly true.

Self-report and startle-based measures of emotional reactions to body image cues as predictors of Drive for Thinness and Body Dissatisfaction in female college students.

Fasting changes how brain cells behave.

Hunger and binge eating: a meta-analysis of studies using ecological momentary assessment.

A Fresh Look At Antidepressants Finds Low Risk Of Youth Suicide.

Autonomous Motivation: A Predictor of Treatment Outcome in Bulimia-Spectrum Eating Disorders.

Do Diet Foods Make You Fat?

Reflective Functioning in 70 Patients Suffering from Bulimia Nervosa.

Parents of patients age 9-30 with anorexia sought for study on behavioral/nutritional aspects. (One hour survey)

Positive parenting (without focusing on weight) during early childhood may prevent obesity, says promising study.

Stress and overeating: Why people crave comfort food.

The Thinner the Better: Self-Esteem and Low Body Weight in Anorexia Nervosa.

It's once again time for your weekly Sunday Smorgasbord, where I trawl the web for the latest in ED-related news, research, and more, so you don't have to.

What Am I Doing Here? Fantastic read on impostor syndrome.

Optimizing bone health in anorexia nervosa and hypothalamic amenorrhea: new trials and tribulations.

Some Say New York City Health Ads Should Inspire, Not Scare.

Bulimic Behaviors and Alcohol Use: Shared Genetic Influences.

Somatic comorbidity in anorexia nervosa: First results of a 21-year follow-up study on female inpatients.

A design morphology of pasta types.

New research looks at the role of stress hormones in the development of anxiety.

Cost-of-illness studies and cost-effectiveness analyses in eating disorders: A systematic review.

Preference for fatty foods may have genetic roots.

Anorexia patients have different reactions to food pictures compared to controls.

Women’s eating pace linked to the pace of female eating companion.

Reflective Functioning in 70 Patients Suffering from Bulimia Nervosa.

Abnormal Brain Structure In Both Siblings, Even When Addiction Only Affects One.

Influence of Attitudes towards Change and Self-directness on Dropout in Eating Disorders: A 2-Year Follow-up Study.

Young people who fear stigma in small communities can seek mental health help online.

Dopamine deficiency tends to suppress hunger.

How to Pick An Effective Eating Disorder Therapist.

AED statement on body-shaming and other strategies to reduce obesity.

School Food Programs Could Trigger Eating Disorders.

Anxiety, An Appointment with Dread.

Talking With Your Child About Weight.

Our sense of smell affects appetite, pleasure, even our will to live. So why do we dismiss it?

It's once again time for your weekly Sunday Smorgasbord, where I trawl the web for the latest in ED-related news, research, and more, so you don't have to.

Lack Of Sleep Might Make You Feel Hungrier.

Warning: Dieting Increases Your Risk of Gaining MORE Weight, Independent of Genetics.

The first artificial sweetener poisoned lots of Romans. Mmmmm...lead (II) acetate...tasty and calorie free!

A Bridge to Recovery on Campus.

Exercise Can Reduce Anxiety in Women.

Psychological and behavioral traits associated with eating disorders and pregnancy: a pilot study.



Too many US adults with mental illness don't get treatment.

How Frequent Are Eating Disturbances in the Population? Norms of the Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire.

The Exhilarating Effects Of Exercise.

Online counselling for eating disorders: Reaching an underserved population.

What To Do the Morning After a Binge.

Made with love, cookies do taste better. The way we read another person's intentions changes our physical experiences.

Age at menarche and digit ratio (2D:4D): Relationships with body dissatisfaction, drive for thinness, and bulimia symptoms in women. Digit ratio is a way to study your androgen exposure in utero.

No Proof Paula Deen’s High-Fat Southern Cooking Caused Her Diabetes.

Adolescents' brains respond differently than adults' when anticipating rewards.

Is There a Perfect Human Diet?

Great article on 'The Age of Anxiety' in this weekend's New York Times.

Anorexia nervosa: patient and family-centered care.

Mindful Eating Restaurant Study-Folks trained in mindful eating ate fewer calories, regardless of portion-size served.

Poor Cognitive Flexibility in Eating Disorders: Examining the Evidence using the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task.

5 Intriguing Facts About Intuitive Eating.

The war on fat backfires. Understanding “Weight” as Social Identity.

Early response to treatment in adolescent bulimia predicts outcome.

The value of solitude and introversion in a world that praises collaborative creativity.

Binge eating, purging and non-purging compensatory behaviours decrease from adolescence to adulthood: A population-based, longitudinal study.

Ecological momentary assessment of bulimia nervosa: does dietary restriction predict binge eating?

The effect of gonadal and adrenal steroid therapy on skeletal health in adolescents and young women with anorexia nervosa.

It's once again time for your weekly Sunday Smorgasbord, where I trawl the web for the latest in ED-related news, research, and more, so you don't have to.

Study Finds Problem Drinkers Get Bigger Endorphin Kick.

Is mental illness culturally specific? Fascinating read on the different ways we go mad.

This week in "No shit, Sherlock" science: Watching 'The Biggest Loser' may increase anti-fat attitudes.

And more on Sherlock- how the detective used statistics and the science of personality.

Scales don’t carry that much weight in determining health.

A randomized controlled trial of adjunctive family therapy and treatment as usual following inpatient treatment for anorexia nervosa adolescents.


New guidelines on the care of young people with anorexia nervosa from the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Clinicians May Have Negative Attitudes Toward Patients With Eating Disorders.

High prevalence of eating disorders not otherwise specified in northwestern Spain: population-based study.


Eating Disorders Recovery Q&A.

“Photo-Therapy:” A Promising Intervention in Anorexia Nervosa?

Anxiety in anorexia nervosa and its management using family-based treatment.


Making the Case for Size Acceptance.

Disordered eating and suicidal intent: The role of thin ideal internalisation, shame and family criticism.


NPR's Science Desk Experiments With Twinkies. It's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it...

Weight is the number one reason kids are bullied.

How pregnancy triggered one woman's long-dormant eating disorder.

How (CBT) Therapy Has Worked For Me.

Exercise Hormone Helps Keep Us Healthy.

Moving from an Eating Disorder's Half-life to Your Full Life.

New blog article about the treatment of orthorexia using CBT and Mindfulness Based CBT.

Emotional Processing Following Recovery from Anorexia Nervosa.

It's once again time for your weekly Sunday Smorgasbord, where I trawl the web for the latest in ED-related news, research, and more, so you don't have to.

Binge-eating and depression go together in teens.

Who pays for treatment of eating disorders?

Theory of mind in bulimia nervosa.

New specialist eating disorders unit in Scotland months behind schedule.

Experts urge BMI method for calculating weight in kids with eating disorders. It's better than throwing darts, but I think clinicians should use information from growth charts whenever available.

Racial/ethnic differences in adults in randomized clinical trials of binge eating disorder.

Great piece on Hope and Full Recovery.

The Starving Brain--FINALLY a magazine article about EDs that actually *gets it*!!!

Everyone has reasons for NOT getting treatment...but that doesn't mean we can't shake it off and move forward.

The usual results: dieting leads to putting on weight later.

Royal Society Christmas brain lectures available worldwide.

Totally unrelated to anything ED, but...what happened to "British accents" in 1776 America.

Tired of all the weight loss ads and diet products being thrown in your face? So is she...

More Examples of Women as Food as Women.

A call for better guidelines in diagnosing and treating childhood eating disorders.

On why guilt and shame don't work in anti-obesity ads.

Article highlights the troubles of EDNOS-- great to see this getting press coverage!

Living a healthy life may or MAY NOT include weight loss, study finds.

The American Dietetic Association gets a new name.

Drawing mental illness – just amazing.

Internet cognitive behavioral therapy for binge eating.

Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder is Often Flawed.

Sad lonely lady rats may really eat their feelings.

Bracing for the Fake Sugar Rush.

Discourage teens to engage in frequent self weighing as per this research.

Why change is so hard and what you can do to make it easier.

Selective Attention of Patients With Anorexia Nervosa While Looking at Pictures of Their Own Body and the Bodies of Others: An Exploratory Study.

It's once again time for your weekly Sunday Smorgasbord, where I trawl the web for the latest in ED-related news, research, and more, so you don't have to.

{{Sorry the post is late--I had trouble with the internet last night!}}

Your Family Tree Can Reveal Your Risk for Eating Disorders.

Body Image, Bullying & Eating Disorders In The Gay Community.

Moderators and mediators of remission in family-based treatment and adolescent focused therapy for anorexia nervosa.

Starving orangutans might help to better understand obesity and eating disorders in humans.

Wanting To Be Thin Doesn't Cause Anorexia But It's Still Damaging.

Recovery- What happens after Treatment.

Let this make your day– David Attenborough (of Planet Earth fame) reads "What a Wonderful World" to breathtaking scenes.

How A Blood Test Could Improve Your Chances Of Successfully Using Antidepressants.

Genetics of taste and smell: poisons and pleasures.

R.I. Hospital to study body image disorders.

The "War on Obesity" has some serious side effects.

More than 500,000 teenagers in the US suffer from severe eating disorders.

When alcohol and anxiety are a dangerous mix.

By how much will the proposed new DSM-5 criteria increase the prevalence of binge eating disorder?

Norway running out of butter as Scandinavian butter crisis spreads.

Molecular gastronomy- Western dishes combine foods with similar flavor compounds. Eastern dishes do not.

Depression and Binge Eating Linked in Teen Girls.

How the perception of your whole body is affected by the size of your body image.

So you know, how to navigate the online maze of health information.

New Study Finds Self-Criticism to be a Risk Factor for Bulimia in Adolescents.

It's once again time for your weekly Sunday Smorgasbord, where I trawl the web for the latest in ED-related news, research, and more, so you don't have to.

Study Challenges Decades-Old Treatment Guidelines for Anorexia.

Alliance-focused therapy for anorexia nervosa: Integrative relational and behavioral change treatments in a single-case experimental design.

Study shows that prevalence of ED's among American teen is higher than what was previously thought.

Dysregulation of brain reward systems in eating disorders: Neurochemical information from animal models of binge eating, bulimia nervosa, and anorexia nervosa.

In outpatient family-based treatment does rate of weight gain matter to anorexia outcome? Yes.

Empirical Classification of Eating Disorders.

Evidence-based treatment and therapist drift in eating disorder treatment.

Anorexia nervosa: a unified neurological perspective.

How Food Likes and Dislikes Affect Our Eating Behaviors.

Effects of an Internet-based intervention for subthreshold eating disorders: A randomized controlled trial.

iRat: Robotic Rat Offers New Tool for Neuroscience Research.

New Model for Childhood Eating Disorders.

CBT can increase cortical inhibition, which can be beneficial for pathological perfectionists.

Coping with the holidays when you have a mental illness.

A really good list of cognitive distortions.

Kathryn Schulz on how regret makes us better.

Eating disorder app 'Recovery Record' developed by Australian student and Stanford University.

New therapy for hard to cure eating disorders.

It's once again time for your weekly Sunday Smorgasbord, where I trawl the web for the latest in ED-related news, research, and more, so you don't have to.

Fascinating connection between thyroid & anorexia nervosa?

New book breaks the code of silence about ballet and eating disorders.

How Trauma Affects the Brain.

Interpreting Holiday Eating Advice with an Intuitive Eye.

To make grocery shopping a little less stressful (or at least more interesting): The sociology of shopping cart and express check-out line etiquette.

British Columbia eating disorder patients denied treatment. {{Some triggering photos and information...read with caution. I included the article because I think the issue is really important.}}


DSM-5 and ICD-11 Watch. Geeky blog for diagnostic manual watchers.

Because you know you need to see video of an emu and a wallaby on a treadmill.

Follow Your Doctor's Orders...And Pet Your Pooch: Never underestimate the power of puppies, or other four-legged friends.


Inpatient Eating Disorder Treatment Checklist for Parents.
 
The gene "for" nothing, or, almost everything.
 
“Skinny girls are not glamor girls.” Vintage weight gain ads – changing standards, changing markets…
 
Tips for balancing the battle with eating disorders and the holidays.
 
Image Tool Catches Fashion Industry Photo Alterations.
 
Gray matter in brain's control center linked to ability to process reward.
 
Different Moderators of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy on Subjective and Objective Binge Eating in Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder: A Three-Year Follow-Up Study.
 
Repeated gastric distension alters food intake and neuroendocrine profiles in rats.
 
Mealtime Support in Anorexia Nervosa: A Within-Subject Comparison Study of a Novel Vodcast Intervention.
 
How does the social environment 'get into the mind'? Epigenetics at the intersection of social and psychiatric epidemiology.
 
Automatic and Intentional Processing of Body Pictures in Binge Eating Disorder.
 
Efficacy trial of a selective prevention program targeting both eating disorder symptoms and unhealthy weight gain among female college students.
 
Eating Disorders Among a Community-based Sample of Chilean Female Adolescents.
 
The dual-pathway and cognitive-behavioural models of binge eating: prospective evaluation and comparison.

It's once again time for your weekly Sunday Smorgasbord, where I trawl the web for the latest in ED-related news, research, and more, so you don't have to.

Treatment of binge eating disorder.


An eleven site national quality improvement evaluation of adolescent medicine-based eating disorder programs: predictors of weight outcomes at one year and risk adjustment analyses.


Eating disorders seem to be as prevalent in Asia as they are in the U.S.


Neuroscience and eating disorders: The allocentric lock hypothesis.


Young Children Not Immune From Eating Disorders.


Treatment of anorexia nervosa against the patient's will: ethical considerations.


"Dieters can be so preoccupied with rules that they lose touch with feelings of hunger and fullness."


Restraint of appetite and reduced regional brain volumes in anorexia nervosa: a voxel-based morphometric study.

“But you don’t LOOK anorexic...”

Food Addiction, Nutritionism, & Intuitive Eating in the Prevention & Treatment of BED: From Science to Application.

Recovering from an Eating "Oops".
 
Keeping One's Eyes On The Goal Despite Stress.
 
Watch Cindy Bulik's talk on YouTube: "Hip Hop or Viennese Waltz? The Complex Dance of Genes and Environment in Eating Disorders."
 
A mother’s food choice can shape baby’s palate, research shows.
 
Bacteria that live on the Atkins Diet.
 
Impulsivity, addiction, and your synapses.
 
Farm-Fresh Food May Have Shaped The Modern Mouth.
 
For Some, Psychiatric Troubles May Begin With the Thyroid.
 
In Anorexia Nervosa, Inner Conflicts Over The 'Real' Self Have Treatment Implications.

It's once again time for your weekly Sunday Smorgasbord, where I trawl the web for the latest in ED-related news, research, and more, so you don't have to.

Check out this great article for dealing with food gatherings during the holiday season while recovering from an eating disorder.

How food became food – a fascinating read from Adam Gopnik on roots of modern food culture.

Association Between Illegal Drug Use and Abnormal Weight in Teens.

BBC History of the Brain podcasts are now available for a short time. They're on my "to listen" list!

Patrick Kennedy Initiative Launched To Encourage Neuroscience Collaboration for Brain Disorders.

How Melanie Klein stopped waging a war against her body and made peace with her body.

Motor inhibition and cognitive flexibility in eating disorder subtypes.

Enough With the ‘Slut Gene’ Already: Behaviors Ain’t Traits.

Wisconsin parents accused of starving infant daughter because they feared she'd become obese.

Early onset eating disorders in male adolescents: a series of 10 inpatients.

What? Use science to combat fat phobia? Why did nobody think of that before?

An angel on my shoulder: a study of relationships between women with anorexia and healthcare professionals.


The Secret Life of Pronouns – computational linguistics and what our word choice reveals about us. (Nothing to do with eating disorders, but it's so stinking cool I just had to share it!)

Parental expressed emotion of adolescents with anorexia nervosa: Outcome in family-based treatment.
Eating disorders in youth: Diagnostic variability and predictive validity.


The importance of the family dinner.

Disordered eating behaviors in type 1 diabetic patients.


Restricting your meals sets you up for craving snack foods.

Abnormal Eating Behaviour in People with a Specific Phobia of Vomiting (Emetophobia).


Google Earth for the human body.

Clarifying Exercise Addiction: Differential Diagnosis, Co-occurring Disorders, and Phases of Addiction.


Self-harm, from adolescence to young adulthood.

Treating teen bulimia in the family context.

Synchronized Anxiety: how synchronized communication between brain areas affects (rodent) anxiety.

News piece on eating disorders in men.

Eating disorders more common than diabetes among young children.

Tips on How to Fight for Eating Disorders Health Insurance Coverage.

Uncertainty, fear, and eating disorders linked.

It's once again time for your weekly Sunday Smorgasbord, where I trawl the web for the latest in ED-related news, research, and more, so you don't have to.

Study Finds Disordered Eating Combined With Heavy Drinking Is Common Among College Students.

Super memory, obsessive behavior: Do they share brain space?

Flexible Brains Are Habit-Forming.

Serotonin and food motivation.

Scientists genetically alter mice so they can run longer without requiring extra food.

Clarifying Exercise Addiction: Differential Diagnosis, Co-occurring Disorders, and Phases of Addiction.


Study in Psychology and Sexuality looks at how LGBT women experience eating disorders.

Body image dissatisfaction versus over-evaluation in a general population sample of women.



"It's easy to forget that eating is, by definition, a social activity."

Eating disorders in youth: Diagnostic variability and predictive validity.


Facebook-like portal helps teens with Crohn's Disease collaborate on medical research. I think there should be one for people with eating disorders!

Therapeutic factors affecting the cognitive behavioral treatment of bulimia nervosa via telemedicine versus face-to-face delivery.


The Process of Discovery for Women: Exercise vs Body Work.

An investigation of the joint longitudinal trajectories of low body weight, binge eating, and purging in women with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.


The Antidote to Depression (or, changing our behaviors can change our thoughts).

Critical appraisal of the provisional DSM-5 criteria for anorexia nervosa and an alternative proposal.



Tips to Rest an Anxious Mind.

Change in binge eating and binge eating disorder associated with migration from Mexico to the US.


Calories Depend On Food Preparation.

A study of neurocognition in bulimia nervosa and eating disorder not otherwise specified-bulimia type.


Adolescents report weight as a primary reason for bullying at school.

Eating habits, physical activity, consumption of substances and eating disorders in adolescents.



Five Things Teachers Should Know About Eating Disorders, Resources and Prevention.

Assessing rumination in eating disorders: Principal component analysis of a minimally modified ruminative response scale.


Carl Warner's food landscapes – whimsical miniature vignettes made out of edible ingredients.

Consent to treatment in adolescents with anorexia nervosa.



Should scientists fight misleading anecdotes with data--or with anecdotes of their own? (as someone who runs into resistance in getting some clinicians to accept ED science, perhaps I'm taking the wrong approach...)

Therapist in your pocket--monitoring mental health with a smartphone.

It's once again time for your weekly Sunday Smorgasbord (this time appearing on a Monday since I fell asleep last night before I had a chance to finish the post!), where I trawl the web for the latest in ED-releated news, research, and more, so you don't have to.

The Truth About College Weight Gain. The Freshman 15 is a myth--the average person only gains 3 pounds.

Fear foods aren't exclusive to eating disorders. Duke University researchers help adult picky eaters introduce new foods.

Anorexia Is Not Only About What She Sees in the Mirror.

ACT and how we get stuck in the happiness trap.

Inequality, Health Disparities, & Obesity.

Recovery projects to help you tackle various stages of eating disorders.

Eating disorders in the twenty-first century.


An amazing pinboard of positive self esteem, body, recovery, confidence, and beautiful books.

Laboratory evaluation in patients with anorexia nervosa: usefulness and limits.


Treatment of Children with Mental Illness.

Prevalence of Personality Disorders and Their Clinical Correlates in Outpatient Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa.


'Biggest Loser' Not Healthy. Stigmatizes overweight folks & offers redemption via drastic weight loss, says scientist. Blogger says "No shit, Sherlock."

An Update on Hospitalization for Eating Disorders 1999-2009. Free and full text.

Assessing rumination in eating disorders: Principal component analysis of a minimally modified ruminative response scale.


Defining What it Means to Be "Recovered."

Binge Eating Disorder and body image perception among university students.


Do Deficits in Brain Cannabinoids Contribute to Eating Disorders?

Starvation and emotion regulation in anorexia nervosa.

Objectified body consciousness in relation to recovery from an eating disorder.

Evaluating the quality of websites relating to diet and eating disorders.

Decoding eating disorder myths, risks.

It's once again time for your weekly Sunday Smorgasbord, where I trawl the web for the latest in ED-related news, research, and more, so you don't have to.

The Darkside of Skimping. In difficult economic times, indulging ourselves might be a Good Thing.

MentorCONNECT Announces Collaboration with UCSD Eating Disorder Research Program.

Comorbidity of partial and subthreshold PTSD among men and women with eating disorders in the national comorbidity survey-replication study.


Interaction between visceral states (hunger, desire) & cognitive states (impulse behavior, self-control).

An Examination of the Ravello Profile - A Neuropsychological Test Battery for Anorexia Nervosa.


Study explains why 90% of dieters regain the weight.

The impact of adverse life events and the serotonin transporter gene promoter polymorphism on the development of eating disorder symptoms.


Found in the developing brain: Mental health risk genes and gender differences.

Increased plasticity of the bodily self in eating disorders.


Eating Disorders & Autism.

Weight suppression predicts time to remission from bulimia nervosa.


Study says 1 in 10 men are binge eaters--a serious disorder not just among women.

Neuroimaging in eating disorders.


Navigating the Search for True Maudsley Treatment.

Social appearance anxiety and bulimia nervosa.


Carer's experience and perceived effects of a skills based training programme for families of people with eating disorders.

It's once again time for your weekly Sunday Smorgasbord, where I trawl the web for the latest in ED-related news, research, and more, so you don't have to.

The Dangers of "Drunkorexia" Among College Students.

Nice article on re-feeding and re-feeding syndrome in eating disorder recovery.

Have a child with an eating disorder? Maudsley Misconceptions: An Interview with Angela Celio Doyle, PhD.

PANDAS: Strep Throat Can Lead to OCD in Children.

An interesting roundtable discussion on insurance coverage for eating disorders.

When it comes to finding a good therapist, you may need to try, try again.
 
Check out the UCSD Eating Disorder Program's new research newsletter "Successful Recovery."
 
Two types of treatment are showing promise when it comes to helping those with eating disorders.
 
Eating disorders more common than diabetes in young children.
 
Creating an emotional safety plan.
 
Do we have a set point for exercise?
 
Study Offers Clues to Emotional Eating.
 
The Agreeable Power of Sugar. People who eat a lot of sweets are perceived as more agreeable. Are they?
 
OCD, bipolar, schizophrenia and the misuse of mental health terms.

Inner experience in bulimia nervosa.

Low GABA Levels Hinder Teens from Experiencing Pleasure.

Tips for Reading Scientific Research Reports.

It's once again time for your weekly Sunday Smorgasbord, where I trawl the web for the latest in ED-related news, research, and more, so you don't have to.

Apparently, not all artificial sweeteners are created equal.

Free exercises that use expressive writing, mindfulness, and the arts to assist in recovery process.

Cognitive Distortions That Contribute To Negative Body Image & Eating Disorders.

8 Keys To Recovering From An Eating Disorder.

Eating disorders and major depression: role of anger and personality.

Reward and penalty processing is widespread in the human brain.

Childhood eating disorders: British national surveillance study.

10 ways to boost endorphin levels naturally and healthily during ED recovery.

Selflessness Gone Awry, and the Damage It Can Cause.

Self-loathing explained: depressed brains may be wired to re-route feelings of hatred inward.

Male Eating Disorder Patients With and Without Non-suicidal Self-injury: A Comparison of Psychopathological and Personality Features.

Listen to an interview with Harriet Brown about her book Brave Girl Eating.

Understanding the neural circuitry of appetitive regulation in eating disorders.

Asylum – a haunting photographic tour of abandoned 19th-century mental hospitals.

Chicago author examines history, psychology behind shoplifting.

Brain type 1 cannabinoid receptor availability in patients with anorexia and bulimia nervosa.

Disordered eating behaviour is associated with blunted cortisol and cardiovascular reactions to acute psychological stress.

Grey matter abnormalities within cortico-limbic-striatal circuits in acute and weight-restored anorexia nervosa patients.

Therapeutic alliance and family-based treatment for adolescents with anorexia nervosa.

Increased neural processing of rewarding and aversive food stimuli in recovered anorexia nervosa.

Altered temporal difference learning in bulimia nervosa.

It's once again time for your weekly Sunday Smorgasbord, where I trawl the web for the latest in ED-related news, research, and more, so you don't have to.

Breaking the silence: Eating disorders in black women.

Eating Disorders Coalition News and Information: What is the FREED Act?

Emotional inhibition helps to maintain AN.

Compulsivity predicts fronto-striatal activation in severely anorectic individuals.

Eating disorder symptoms among college students: prevalence, persistence, correlates, and treatment-seeking.

Enjoy your food and feel fuller, satisfied: An Upside to Indulgence.

Teaching recovery, rather than treating addiction.

Similar Behaviors Found in Women with Food and Substance Issues.

Calorie Counts in the Dining Hall: Harmful or Helpful?

Weight Stigma Awareness Week: What You Need To Know.

A fine-grained analysis of eating behavior in women with bulimia nervosa..

Bringing order to chaos: Professor Chris Fairburn.

Eating Disorders And The Executive Woman.

Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor, Food Intake Regulation, and Obesity.

Women's Clothing Sizes: Is a 4 Really a 4?

The clinical utility of personality subtypes in patients with anorexia nervosa.
Pressure to lose weight in the form of weight stigma creates more problems--it's not a motivating impact, says study.

Everybody Thinks They're Typical – how our self-perception skews our perception of our peers.

Moral disgust carries foul flavour, researchers say.

First time evidence links over interpretation of social situations to borderline personality disorder.

Brain Bugs – a fascinating look at the glorious imperfections of your brain.