Recap: Eating Disorders 2024

A remitted patient with ARFID faces panic after a crash, showing why recovery includes somatic fear, not just eating behavior.

Veterans younger than 30 starting antidepressants, and anyone coprescribed opioids and benzodiazepines, will need to sign consent forms starting in 2027.

Overlooking how hearing loss and sign language shape the Mental Status Examination can make language deprivation look like psychosis, authors warn.

The menopause transition carries a 2-fold increased risk of depression, and an expert explains how clinicians can screen for it, tell it apart from other conditions, and treat it.

Study finds most teens with first-episode psychosis stop antipsychotics within a year, boosting ER use; outpatient care and injectables may help.

Courts cite teen brain science to soften sentences; experts warn generalized neuroscience overreaches and adult responsibility stabilizes by 18 to 20.

How VA clinicians treat veterans’ PTSD while managing suicide risk, using shared decisions, safety planning, and phase-based trauma therapies.