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Update on ANGI Study

Scientists and researchers have long understood the genetic implications involved in anorexia nervosa, furthering the understanding of this psychiatric illness as a biologically influenced disorder. Anorexia nervosa continues to be [...]
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Genetic Risk Factors Connected to Binge Eating Disorder

New research findings, which were recently published in the journal of Biological Psychiatry, have uncovered more information about the genetic influences involved in binge eating disorder. In a study conducted [...]
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Overview of Current Brain Imaging Research on Eating Disorders

Doctors can carry weight stigma into their work

One difficulty in developing new treatments for eating disorders in the past has been the limited understanding of how brain function contributes to eating disorder symptoms [1]. Brain imaging technology [...]
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Exploring Sensory Process Disorders Connection to Eating Disorders:

A sensory processing disorder (SPD) alters typical food responses. You’re more likely to notice how something tastes, feels, or sounds. And during mealtimes, your senses could keep you from enjoying [...]
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Impact of Medical Marijuana for Anorexia and Bulimia

Girl smoking marijuana for her eating disorder

Anorexia and bulimia have been shown, through research, that there is an imbalance in brain chemistry than non eating disordered individuals. Marijuana comes [...]
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Research Shows How Brain Can Override Hunger in Eating Disorders

Those individuals with anorexia and bulimia have brains that function differently in order to restrict eating from their non-eating disordered peers. Dr Guido Frank from the University of Colorado Denver, [...]
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A History of Eating Disorder Advocacy: Where Are We Today?

Contributor: By Rachael Clauson, MAAT, Eating Disorder Specialist, Timberline Knolls Residental Treatment Center If you type in eating disorder recovery or body positivity into the Google search bar, it’s evident [...]
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Beneath the Surface: The Neurobiology of Eating Disorders

Woman thinking about Pride in Eating Disorders

The Neurobiology of Eating Disorders can be traced partly to the gut and hypothalamic mechanisms contribute to the regulation of energy metabolism and eating behaviors and higher order, corticolimbic systems [...]
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Women With Type 1 Diabetes Twice as Likely to Suffer Eating Disorders

Women with type 1 diabetes face challenges when it comes to caring for themselves and their health. Also known as “juvenile diabetes”, type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disorder in [...]
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Why You Can’t Judge an Eating Disorder by its Cover

You cannot tell whether someone has an eating disorder just by looking at them. This cannot be emphasized enough. [...]
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