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 ...
March 10th, 2013

Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) in patients with treatment-resistant anorexia nervosa may help improve body weight, mood and anxiety, according to new research.
A team of researchers ...
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 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 17th, 2012

Adults who had been abused or neglected as children reported worse mental and physical health in their 30s than their peers who were not abused, according ...
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 ...
June 22nd, 2012

Although the term “eating disorder” is traditionally associated with behaviors of teenagers and young adults, new research suggests it also pertains to middle-age and older women.
Researchers say age ...