May 9th, 2013

A new clinical trial has found that focusing on quality of life and enhanced social adjustment, rather than weight gain, improved results for patients ...
April 10th, 2013

Online searches for all major mental illnesses tend to follow seasonal patterns, according to a new study -- suggesting that mental illnesses may be ...
January 31st, 2013

Researchers have discovered a teenage girl's social group plays more of a role than social media, television and the big screen on ...
January 25th, 2013

A brain imaging study suggests improper neural connections cause women with anorexia nervosa to have poor perceptual awareness of body ...
November 20th, 2012

Identifying eating disorders in teens and getting treatment are often difficult tasks. A new study seeks to leverage location, in this case hospital emergency ...
November 18th, 2012

People with certain mental disorders, such as schizophrenia and autism, ...
November 9th, 2012

A new UK research study suggests what many already believe: that media and marketing images of thin and super-thin women has ...
October 29th, 2012

New research investigates the method by which our brain coordinates energy expenditure to caloric consumption.
For many, it ...
October 1st, 2012

With some studies finding that nearly two-thirds of female college students have an undiagnosed or mild eating disorder, researchers at the University of Michigan set out ...
September 10th, 2012

Although people suffering from anorexia nervosa have a skewed perception of their own bodies, they accurately judge the size of other people’s bodies, according to ...