Top Research Papers on Eating Disorders

Cultural gender roles have been recognized as significant in the cause and expression of disordered eating in women's perceptions of thinness as the feminine ideal.

The strong correlation ofeating disorders with excessive physical activity and sport underlines the significant role of the weight loss method among diagnostical criteria of eating disorders.

In this chapter, a review of the literature on the comorbidity between eating disorders and the anxiety disorders of OCD, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), SAD, GAD, simple phobia, agoraphobia and panic disorder is reviewed.

It is possible to overcome eating disorders through a plethora of resources, including workshops offering healthy coping techniques, counseling, support groups, and treatment centers which provide personalized care.

A group of 54 clients with eating disorders who attended a college-based, group counselling service evaluated four treatments for eating disorders, finding individual discussion of problems was uniformly rated as more acceptable than two behavioural treatments.

This article focuses on bulimia and anorexia nervosa and provides recommendations to the treating clinician: guidelines on when to tackle the problem within the context of the substance abuse treatment and when to refer the clients elsewhere.

This chapter draws on sport research to highlight the pressure and abuse athletes face as they attempt to achieve the culturally accepted athletic body shape (e.g. fatless/lean) which is perceived to enhance performance output. Research has revealed that insiders of sporting organisations (e.g. coaches/team managers/athletes) implement various bodily practices (e.g. daily weigh-ins, skin fold tests, long runs, abuse of prescription drugs) in an attempt to achieve the fatless and lean athlete body. A case is made suggesting that athletes developing eating disorders and engaging with disordered ...

The diagnosis, medical assessment, and treatment of the most common eating disorders are reviewed, with a focus on binge eating and bulimia.

The shorter the time between first appearance of the disorder and beginning of its treatment is, the better the prognosis and an interdisciplinary approach of practitioners, psychotherapists, dieticians and if needed other specialists should be strived for.

Some neurobiological experiments on eating disorders are introduced, important details about psychological therapies are mentioned and some of the mechanisms behind these disorders are mentioned.

The major eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, which are characterized by peculiar attitudes toward eating and weight that lead to obsessive refusal to eat, profound weight loss, and when the disorder occurs in girls, persistent amenorrhea.

An overview of how to diagnose and examine eating disorders and when and where to refer to is given.

Nearly twenty years ago at a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Drs. Garner and Garfinkel, and Dr. Lowenkopf and myself presented papers on “anorexia” in dancers, and shared a panel chaired by Dr. Hilde Bruch. This elderly and rather unassuming woman, arguably the leading authority on anorexia nervosa, listened politely to our presentations and afterward had a single comment: “Well, these girls are very interesting, but they certainly don’t have anorexia nervosa.” No offense was taken, no argument or defense pursued. Not because we felt intimated or chastised by Dr. Bruch, but be...

The practitioner is provided with an update on the current state-of-the-art regarding etiology and treatment of eating disorders and address certain clinical controversies that practitioners face on a daily basis.

The biological mechanisms underpinning symptoms evolution and course of illness will first be described, follows by a discussion on integrating the research evidence in fear and feeding into patient care.

This article will discuss the author's concept of "the disorder of in and out" which is believed to describe the resulting core pathology: the individual does not know what to take into their lives and what to keep out of it, which is thought to be expressed metaphorically via symptoms.

Eating Disorders (ED) is a manifestation of anxiety and trauma of self-image stirring to the extent of hospitalization and fatal stage and new researches are indicating its link with genetic and neurochemical pursuits.

The results suggest that emotional eating is not responsible for overeating only but may, in concert with chronic dieting, also relate to the general psychopathology found to underlie eating disorders.

An eating disorder is characterised by eating, exercise and body weight/shape becoming an unhealthy preoccupation of someone's life.

Eating disorders are a significant health problem for many people with Type 1 diabetes, especially among adolescents, and among adolescents aged 15 to 19.

The only statistically significant finding of this study was that sorority and nonsorority subjects varied in the sources of societal pressures they identified, and sorority women more often identified other women or themselves as the main sources of pressure to be thin and beautiful.

It is possible to overcome eating disorders through a plethora of resources, including workshops offering healthy coping techniques, counseling, support groups, and treatment centers which provide personalized care.

To prevent EDs, aquatic athletes should practice healthy eating behavior at all periods of development pathway, and coaches and members of the athletes' health care team should be able to recognize early symptoms indicating risk for energy deficiency, DE, and EDs.

More rigorous tools for family practice physicians, nurses, and coaches to use when working with at-risk adolescent athletes are needed to identify DE behaviors and healthcare and school professionals need to be educated and trained to detect DE and the components of the female athlete triad.

It is argued here that self-starvation, binge eating and the binge-purge cycle are secondary to overvalued ideas about weight and shape.

Treatment is still unclear and there have been trials of pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, or a combination of both, however, pharmacological treatment has generally been found to be the most effective, although each case must be considered individually.

The case of a patient with ongoing weight loss, low mood and previously undisclosed gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms initially diagnosed with an eating disorder and subsequently diagnosed with ulcerative colitis over a year following initial presentation is described.

Binge eating disorder is far less frequent than has been believed on the basis of questionnaire studies and it is highly responsive to placebos, while frequency of the night-eating syndrome is comparable to that of binge eating disorder.

Existing literature indicates high prevalence of DE and ED in male elite athletes, with a wide range of aetiopathogenesis, and there is a need for longitudinal studies to characterise the pathology and long-term outcomes.

Findings identify eating disorder symptoms that predict treatment enrollment after diagnostic assessment and recommendation to begin treatment and should be assessed for to address potential treatment barriers.

The results indicated that the EED questionnaire is a valid and reliable tool for males, and is a clinically derived, self‐report questionnaire to assess compulsive exercise among ED patients, regarding attitudes and thoughts toward compulsive Exercise and identification of treatment targets and priorities.

This chapter reviews recent publications and ‘‘in press’’ manuscripts pertaining to prevention of eating disorders and suggests that the new universal-selective programs with ecological components can create sustained reductions in several key risk factors without doing harm for girls.

Eating disorders, once thought to be largely confined to females, are increasingly common in males and this diversity is not accommodated in current classification schemes, so diagnostic and clinical challenges presented by these distinctive presentations are considered.

A unique view of eating disorder treatment for males is offered by integrating it with the literature on the psychology of men by giving practical suggestions to guide eating disorder recovery in males.

The basic tenets of yoga, anecdotal reports of its effectiveness, its high accessibility and low cost, and initial research findings suggest that yoga may offer promise for the field of eating disorders.

The most prominent cited distinction between NES and SRED is the level of consciousness during nighttime eating episodes, and those with SRED often report that they are “half asleep, half awake” or even fully asleep during nocturnal episodes and may have impaired recollection for the event the following morning.

The present study does not support the concept that picky eating is associated with disordered eating but rather with a range of behavioral problems.

The high rate of disordered eating in Israeli youth is discussed in light of Israel being a culture in transition that is constantly exposed to the risk of terrorism and the dramatic societal changes occurring within a relatively brief period of time.

The pharmacological approach to eating disorders (ED) is effective in a few conditions, and to date, no treatment has shown certain efficacy in treating patients with this disorder, but research in this area should not be abandoned because new generation "molecules" become increasingly available.

This case report explores the complex presentation of a 15-year-old female initially suspected of having an eating disorder, which underscores the necessity of a thorough and holistic approach in assessment, diagnosis and management of eating-related concerns in adolescents.

Results indicate that although in-season wrestlers are more weight conscious than nonwrestlers, these feelings and attitudes are transient, and not meet the severity level required for a diagnosis of bulimia nervosa.

A Nemzetközi Olimpiai Bizottság 2019. évi jelentése szerint a problematikus evési magatartások és/vagy evészavarok aránya a sportolónők körében 6–45%, a férfi sportolóknál 0–19% között volt. Az arány folyamatosan nő, és a problematikus evési magatartások és/vagy evészavarok gyakrabban fordulnak elő a sportolók között, összehasonlítva a nem sportoló populációval. Bármely sportágban megjelenhetnek, de bizonyos sportolók kiemelt rizikócsoportba sorolhatók, főként az esztétikai, súlycsoportos és állóképességi sportágakban. A mérési módszerek nagy diverzitást mutatnak, a legtöbbször kérdőíveket a...

Much of the literature on the treatment and outcome of eating disorders lacks methodological robustness and ignores basic epidemiological principles, and existing theories of the causation of the disorders are too non-specific to generate effective programs of prevention.

The focus of this meeting was the interface between eating disorders and obesity.

It is found that eating disorders or disordered eating behaviors during adolescence are associated with increased odds of having three or more children compared to no children in adulthood, even when the authors account for delinquency and sexual behaviors.

The only statistically significant finding of this study was that sorority and nonsorority subjects varied in the sources of societal pressures they identified, and sorority women more often identified other women or themselves as the main sources of pressure to be thin and beautiful.

This study failed to show a familial tendency for BED, or any significant familial relationship between BED and other eating disorders, and did not support the hypothesis of coaggregation of other psychiatric disorders with BED.

In this study of a general population sample, no evidence was found of a relationship between pregnancy outcome and the severity of eating disorder features prior to pregnancy.

A systematic review of the recent literature on comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder in patients with eating disorders provides preliminary evidence that concurrent cognitive behavior therapy for PTSD and eating disorders may be beneficial and that repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation could be helpful in the treatment of PTSD in some eating disorder patients.

It was found that patients with MAD have a triad of eating disorder symptoms: a disturbance in interoceptive awareness, the sense of ineffectiveness, and a tendency toward bulimia.