December 20th, 2011

A new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health finds that teenage girls who feel depressed are twice as likely to start binge ...
December 15th, 2011

Emerging research tracks the physical effects from stress from neurosteroids acting on specific receptors in the brain.
Neuroscience researchers from Tufts ...
December 12th, 2011

A University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) study challenges the current conservative approach to feeding adolescents who have anorexia nervosa during hospitalization for ...
December 8th, 2011

Sadly, current methods to control overeating in children or adults are often ineffective. Overeating often takes place even in the absence of hunger, ...
November 29th, 2011

Neuron transplants have repaired brain circuitry and substantially normalized function in mice with a brain disorder, indicating that key areas of the brain are more repairable than was widely ...
November 23rd, 2011

A new report concludes that people with anorexia nervosa struggle with questions about their real, or "authentic," self.
Researchers believe an understanding ...
November 22nd, 2011

A provocative new study out of Australia investigates the novel approach of providing financial incentives to individuals if they change their health behavior.
Investigators note ...
November 7th, 2011

A new article laments that while most people know what they should do to maintain a healthy weight -- they lack the willpower to battle the bulge.
University ...
November 7th, 2011

Emerging research suggests a method to prevent relapse to an old harmful behavior is to match a new behavior to the originating stimulus.
Researchers base the new approach ...
November 2nd, 2011

A new study warns that although they are the prime demographic for developing eating disorders, many college students fail to notice the warning signs.
The ...