News tagged with anorexia nervosa
Milkshakes are medicine for anorexic teens in family-based outpatient therapy
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Getting your teenager to drink a chocolate milkshake isn't something most parents need to worry about. But this is just the approach used in one treatment for anorexia nervosa. Known as Behavioral Family Therapy, or the Maudsley ...
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Males with a female twin may be at higher risk for anorexia nervosa
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Males who have a twin sister appear more likely to develop the eating disorder anorexia nervosa than other males, including those with a twin brother, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of General Ps ...
People with anorexia less likely to be blamed when biology, genetics explained
Jan 11, 2008 |
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People given a biological and genetics-based explanation for the causes of anorexia nervosa were less likely to blame people with anorexia for their illness than those given a sociocultural explanation, a University of North ...
Psychiatric disorders are common in adults who have had anorexia
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 26, 2009 |
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The study was initiated in 1985. A total of 51 teenagers with anorexia nervosa were studied, together with an equally large control group of healthy persons. The groups have been investigated and compared several times as ...
Socialization May Be Key to New Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa
Nov 08, 2007 |
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Understanding how individuals with anorexia nervosa interact with others may lead to entirely new approaches to treating the disease which affects up to 10 million adolescents.
Study reveals the heavy toll anorexia takes on families
Apr 08, 2008 |
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While the primary focus of media attention and medical treatment is the individual's battle with anorexia nervosa, research from University of Western Sydney reveals that anorexia can have a long term impact on the physical, ...
Families do not cause anorexia nervosa
Jan 22, 2007 |
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Misstatements and ignorance claiming that families "cause" eating disorders is like blaming parents for diabetes or asthma or cancer says an international group of eating disorders researchers.
Review provides new insights into the causes of anorexia
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 21, 2009 |
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New imaging technology provides insight into abnormalities in the brain circuitry of patients with anorexia nervosa (commonly known as anorexia) that may contribute to the puzzling symptoms found in people with the eating ...
New psychotherapy has potential to treat majority of cases of eating disorders
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Wellcome Trust researchers have developed a new form of psychotherapy that has been shown to have the potential to treat more than eight out of ten cases of eating disorders in adults, a study out today reports.
Pregnant women with bulimia have more anxiety and depression
Sep 17, 2008 |
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Women who have bulimia in pregnancy have more symptoms of anxiety and depression compared to pregnant women without eating disorders. A new study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) shows that they also have ...
Marking anorexia with a brain protein
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Eating disorders are frequently seen as psychological or societal diseases, but do they have an underlying biological cause? A new study shows that the levels of a brain protein differ between healthy and anorexic women.
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