For the first time, scientists have discovered a possible biological culprit in the development of eating disorders during puberty: a type of estrogen called estradiol.
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June 4, 2010
May 19, 2010
A New Drug That Decreases Anxiety And Stabilizes Mood?
This study formulates the hypothesis that rufinamide, a drug so far used against epilepsy, may also be effective in bipolar disorder, depressive and anxiety disorders, panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, and substance use disorders. It is just an hypothesis based on two cases that needs to be confirmed by specific studies...
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February 15, 2010
February is Eating Disorder Awareness Month
Canada, The United Kingdom and The United States use the month of February to bring awareness to Eating Disorders.... Orbanic, S. (2010) What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Treating Eating . Eating Disorders, 18(1), 78-79. DOI: 10.1080/10640260903439581 What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Treating Eating
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December 1, 2009
Eating disorders and DSM-V
by Michael D. Anestis, M.S. I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving holiday. We certainly enjoyed our time off, but are excited to return to PBB. Given the amount of time I spent thinking about food during this past week, with...
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November 18, 2009
Family-based treatment for adolescent eating disorders: A detailed discussion of the data
by Michael D. Anestis, M.S. Back in April, I wrote an article on PBB discussing the empirical support for various treatments for anorexia nervosa (AN). The bulk of the article focused on family-based treatment (FBT) for child and adolescent AN,...
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November 6, 2009
Equine-assisted psychotherapy for mental illness: Is there evidence behind the hype?
by Michael D. Anestis, M.S. On one of our first vacations together, Joye and I took a trip to Arizona. While there, we encountered a sign for a program claiming to utilize equine-assisted psychotherapy (EAP) for eating disorders. We were...
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October 8, 2009
Night eating syndrome: Should it be included in DSM-V?
by Joye C. Anestis It seems to me that the public has a fascination with eating disorders, and not only the ones that are formally recognized as pathological constructs (e.g., anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa). In newspapers and magazines and on...
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September 25, 2009
Digit ratios and disordered eating in men: Using the ratio of the second finger to the fourth finger as a measure of prenatal testosterone exposure
by Michael D. Anestis, M.S. We have devoted a fairly substantial amount of attention to eating disorders on PBB. If you have read these articles or are familiar with eating disorders in general, you likely know that these diagnoses are...
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August 17, 2009
Alternative treatment delivery: Part 3, using online interventions to treat insomnia
by Joye C. Anestis It has been a while since I made a contribution to my series evaluating alternative treatment delivery mechanisms. In a previous article, I examined available evidence for online treatments geared toward preventing eating disorders. Today I...
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August 4, 2009
Chronic Eating Disorders
Eating disorders in general and anorexia nervosa in particular are complex and difficult psychiatric disorders to treat. Empirical research has established effective treatments of bulimia nervosa. However, anorexia nervosa remains without effective empirically based treatments, especially for adult patients. A significant majority of patients with bulimia nervosa will have a good outcome; however
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