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Disordered eating may affect 10 to 15 percent of women

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Several maladaptive eating behaviors, beyond anorexia, can affect women. Indeed, some 10 to 15 percent of women have maladaptive eating behaviours and attitudes according to new study from the Université de Montréal ...


Excessive exercise can be addicting, new study says

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Although exercise is good for your health, extreme exercise may be physically addicting. Rats given a drug that produces withdrawal in heroin addicts went into withdrawal after running excessively in exercise wheels, according ...


Why anorexic patients cling to their eating disorder

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Anorexic patients drastically reduce food intake and are often not capable of changing their behavior. This can lead to life-threatening weight loss. Using MRI technology, scientists at Heidelberg University Hospital have ...


Review provides new insights into the causes of anorexia

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


How to care for your bones through the ages

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Bones are the body's first lines of defense. They protect the brain, heart and lungs and anchor the muscles. They keep us mobile. And all they ask in return is our support to keep them strong: good nutrition, weight-bearing ...


Marking anorexia with a brain protein

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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.


Milkshakes are medicine for anorexic teens in family-based outpatient therapy

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

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 ...


Psychiatric disorders are common in adults who have had anorexia

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created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...


The power of suggestion: Researchers look at why suggestive therapy may prompt false memories

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created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychologist Elke Geraerts of the University of St Andrews has carried out a study of the difference between memories recalled by patients through suggestive therapies, compared with more natural recollections.


New CT technology shows anorexia impairs adolescent bone development

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 18, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Children and teenagers with even mild cases of anorexia exhibit abnormal bone structure, according to a new study appearing in the December issue of Radiology and presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Societ ...