Eating Disorders

How can psychiatrists collaborate within the treatment team to help patients on the path to ongoing recovery?

Approximately 30 million individuals will be diagnosed with an eating disorder in the United States during their lifetime.

"20% to 30% of patients develop a persistent, hard-to-treat illness."

This new study is evaluating how effective psychedelics can be in the treatment of binge eating disorder.

How can you help patients with bulimia nervosa beyond residential programs?

What kind of person comes to mind when you think of eating disorders? Here’s why you might be wrong.

A recent study found a negative association between children with ADHD and health eating patterns.

Findings show relationship between binge eating and brain activation.

Study also identifies prevalence of specific behavioral addictions in these individuals.

Only 13% to 50% of AN patients are considered recovered 1 to 2 years posttreatment, and 20% to 30% go on to develop a chronic and unremitting course of AN. How can we improve these outcomes?

Representative Jason Ortitay and Senator Steve Santarsiero have introduced legislation to help increase awareness of eating disorders in children.

Nearly 80% of eating disorders go undetected. What screening tools can help identify them?

A television drama looks at eating disorders from the patient, physician, and family perspectives. What does it get right—and wrong?

Obsessive-compulsive disorder and related conditions do not always respond to first-line treatments. Fortunately, new options are on the horizon.

Not all stressors are alike—and different types require different treatments.

A healthy diet can improve mood and effectiveness of antidepressant medications. Here's why your patients should be eating healthier.

A diagnosis of depression, anxiety disorders, or bulimia may also indicate a heightened risk of excessive drinking.

Carlos M. Grilo, PhD, explained symptoms, causes, and treatment for binge-eating disorder in his talk at The Annual Psychiatric Times® World CME Conference™.

Although weight loss may be a favorable feature of healthful diets, "clean eating" can be taken to extremes. In this video, we interview Thomas R. Dunn, PhD, author of a recent CME for Psychiatric Times. Orthorexia Nervosa.

Based on our current understanding, what is the underlying etiology for anorexia nervosa? Take the quiz.

This article describes a model for anorexia nervosa that is useful when working with patients or families to help them understand the complexity of the illness.

Eating disorders (ED) are associated with significant comorbid psychopathology and the most extensive medical complications of any psychiatric disorder.

Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder, or ARFID, is a newly introduced eating disorder in DSM-5. Given that the disorder was introduced in 2013, it remains unclear how prevalent ARFID is in the general population.

The body image disturbance at the heart of anorexia nervosa is a false perception akin to the perceptual disorders found in schizophrenia.

Treating eating disorders can feel challenging because patients are typically ambivalent about changing their behavior; however, it is also rewarding, as full recovery is possible even in the most chronically and severely ill patients.