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Eating disorders, characterized by severe disturbances in eating behavior, are a public health concern, particularly among young women. This longitudinal study aimed to investigate the relationship between disordered eating attitudes and mental health outcomes, including depression, anxiety, and somatization, among individuals with eating disorders. A total of 471 young German women hospitalized with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa participated in this study.

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[Barriers to access treatment for eating disorders: Literature review].

Rev Med Chil

December 2023

Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Background: Eating disorders (EDs) are disabling, potentially fatal, and costly mental disorders. According to recent data, Chile has the highest prevalence of both anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) in Latin America. However, there is no published data regarding the barriers experienced by patients with EDs in Chile until they start treatment.

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How Do Patients and Their Supports Experience Temperament Based Therapy With Support (TBT-S)? A Qualitative Study.

Int J Eat Disord

December 2024

University Health Care Research Center, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden.

Background: Temperament Based Therapy with Support (TBT-S) is an emerging intervention based on empirically supported neurobiological models. Due to its novelty, only a handful of studies to date have examined TBT-S, and none of these previous studies have provided a qualitative evaluation of how TBT-S is perceived by the target population. Therefore, the aim of the current study was to provide an increased understanding of how TBT-S is experienced by patients with an eating disorder and their supports.

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Purpose: Emotional eating during negative emotions might underlie disordered eating behavior (i.e., binge eating and food restriction).

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Maternal sex-hormone exposure and the risk of eating disorders in daughters.

Psychiatry Res

December 2024

Department of Psychiatry, Division of Adolescent Psychiatry, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

Article Synopsis
  • * Researchers looked at maternal testosterone and estradiol levels from blood samples and compared daughters with BN, AN, and controls to see if there were any significant hormonal influences.
  • * Results indicated that higher prenatal testosterone levels were linked to an increased risk of BN in daughters with familial history, while no strong connections were found for AN or when comparing with broader population controls.
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Background: Negative affectivity of caregivers has been linked to difficulties in the caregiver-patient relationship and it is assumed to contribute to the maintenance of eating disorder (ED) symptoms.

Aims: The present study investigated the relationship of patients' ED symptom severity to patients' and caregivers' depressive symptoms, and caregivers' involvement in a mixed sample of adult inpatients with anorexia (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN), as well as their caregivers.

Method: The Eating Disorder Examination and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) were administered to 55 adult ED patients (26 AN and 29 BN), and the BDI as well as the Involvement Evaluation Questionnaire were filled in by one caregiver of each patient.

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Relationship between nonexercise activity and mood in patients with eating disorders.

Acta Psychiatr Scand

September 2024

Department of eHealth and sports analytics, Faculty of Sport Science, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.

Article Synopsis
  • Patients with eating disorders (EDs) often engage in excessive physical activity (pathological exercise, PE) for mood regulation, which can have harmful health effects; however, non-exercise activity (NEA) has potential as a positive intervention.
  • A study of 29 ED patients and 35 healthy controls over seven days found that NEA improved mood dimensions like valence and energetic arousal, although effects were stronger in healthy individuals compared to those with EDs.
  • The findings suggest NEA can benefit mood, particularly when PE levels are lower, indicating that NEA interventions could be effective in helping ED patients manage negative emotions in daily life.
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Enhanced cognitive behaviour therapy for adolescents with eating disorders: development, effectiveness, and future challenges.

Biopsychosoc Med

September 2024

Department of Eating and Weight Disorders, Villa Garda Hospital, Via Monte Baldo, 89 37016, Garda, VR, Italy.

Article Synopsis
  • Eating disorders significantly affect the mental and physical health of adolescents, making early treatment crucial to avoid serious long-term consequences.
  • The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommends cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT-E) for adolescents with eating disorders when family therapy isn't suitable, showing similar success rates to family-based treatment in effectiveness trials.
  • CBT-E is user-friendly for young people and can effectively address a range of disorders, making it valuable for those needing individual treatment without full family involvement; however, future research aims to clarify its efficacy compared to family therapy and enhance its effectiveness.
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Objective: In cross-sectional and retrospective research, parental binge eating is associated with their children's eating psychopathology. The current study extended the evidence by cross-sectionally and longitudinally examining the relation between parental binge eating and binge eating and weight-control behaviors in the next generation of their adolescent children and young adult children in a population-based sample.

Methods: Adolescents (Time 1: M = 14.

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Objective: Despite substantial research indicating difficulties with emotion regulation across eating disorder presentations, emotion regulation has yet to be studied in adults with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID). We hypothesized that (1) those with ARFID would report greater overall emotion regulation difficulties than nonclinical participants, and (2) those with ARFID would not differ from those with other eating disorders on the level of emotion regulation difficulty.

Methods: One hundred and thirty-seven adults (age 18-30) from an outpatient clinic with ARFID (n = 27), with other primarily restrictive eating disorders (e.

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Objectives: Eating disorders (EDs) typically emerge during adolescence. Parental bonding has a lasting impact on a child's mental health during those developmentally critical years. There remains uncertainty over whether parental bonding is a risk factor for developing or maintaining specifically EDs or, rather, general psychopathology and the associated underlying brain function.

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Purpose: Understanding how early adaptive schemas, cognitive flexibility, and emotional regulation influence eating disorder (ED) symptoms, and whether this differs across diagnostic subtypes is critical to optimising treatment. The current study investigated the relationship between these variables and ED symptomology in individuals self-reporting an ED diagnosis and healthy controls.

Methods: A dataset of 1576 online survey responses yielded subsamples for anorexia nervosa (n = 155), bulimia nervosa (n = 55), binge eating disorder (n = 33), other specified feeding or eating disorder (n = 93), and healthy participants (n = 505).

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Bulimia Nervosa and Depression, from the Brain to the Gut Microbiota and Back.

Front Biosci (Landmark Ed)

August 2024

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Perugia, 06126 Perugia, Italy.

Article Synopsis
  • Bulimia nervosa (BN) is a serious eating disorder where people eat a lot (binge), then make themselves throw up, and it can make them feel really anxious and sad.
  • It affects how their brain works, especially a part called the insula, which helps with feelings about food and understanding emotions.
  • The health of bacteria in our stomach (gut microbiota) plays a role in BN, and improving gut health with probiotics might help treat or prevent this disorder.
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Bulimia nervosa and treatment-related disparities: a review.

Front Psychol

August 2024

College of Health Sciences, Utah Tech University, St. George, UT, United States.

Introduction: Bulimia nervosa (BN) is a type of eating disorder disease usually manifesting between adolescence and early adulthood with 12 as median age of onset. BN is characterized by individuals' episodes of excessive eating of food followed by engaging in unusual compensatory behaviors to control weight gain in BN. Approximately 94% of those with BN never seek or delay treatment.

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Dysregulated eating behaviors, comprising subthreshold and clinical binge-eating disorder (BED) and bulimia nervosa (BN), are increasing among the general population, with a consequent negative impact on one's health and well-being. Despite the severity of these outcomes, people with BED and BN often face a delay in receiving a diagnosis or treatment, often due to difficulties in accessing care. Hence, evidence-based and sustainable interventions for eating symptomatology are needed.

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Aim: This study examines the prevalence of eating disorders, particularly anorexia and bulimia nervosa, among middle-aged Spaniards, noting their rising incidence in men as well as women. It explores how these disorders relate to sociodemographic factors and lifestyle habits.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted from August 2020 to November 2021 via online platforms.

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Childhood maltreatment and the risk of eating disorders: a meta-analysis of observational studies.

Neuropsychiatr

August 2024

Department of General psychology, Faculty of Literature, humanities and social sciences, Science and Research branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Objective: The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to examine the relationship between childhood maltreatment as a variable of exposure and eating disorders as an outcome.

Methods: PubMed, Web of Science, and Google Scholar were searched to find manuscripts related to the current research. The search was conducted up until October 2023 and limited to the English language.

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Global sleep disturbance is robustly linked with a subjective sense of loss-of-control over eating (LOC). Depressed mood has been proposed as a mechanism to explain the bi-directional relationship between sleep disturbance and LOC eating. The current study evaluated whether sleep disturbance indirectly affects LOC eating via depressed mood.

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Bulimia nervosa (BN) is characterized by recurrent loss of control over eating (LOC) and inappropriate compensatory behaviors. Although cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is efficacious for BN, many patients continue to experience symptoms at posttreatment. One potential driver of this low treatment response may be low mood, which maintains BN symptoms through negative reinforcement.

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The current study evaluated knowledge of and attitudes toward guided self-help (GSH) among clinicians who use evidence-based practices to treat one or more of the following: panic disorder, major depressive disorder, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder. A total of 153 of 256 individuals recruited online and at professional conferences were eligible. This study assessed prior experience with and knowledge of GSH, as well as hypothetical use with a mock patient.

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Oculomotor behaviors in youth with an eating disorder: findings from a video-based eye tracking task.

J Eat Disord

August 2024

Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Botterell Hall, 18 Stuart St, K7L 3N6, Kingston, ON, Canada.

Background: The oculomotor circuit spans many cortical and subcortical areas that have been implicated in psychiatric disease. This, combined with previous findings, suggests that eye tracking may be a useful method to investigate eating disorders. Therefore, this study aimed to assess oculomotor behaviors in youth with and without an eating disorder.

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Purpose Of Review: Psychotherapy is the cornerstone of the multidisciplinary treatment approach for eating disorders. This review examines recent evidence regarding effectiveness, predictors, and mechanisms of change of psychotherapy in eating disorders, providing a road map for clinicians and researchers.

Recent Findings: Family-based treatments (FBT) are effective in adolescents with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

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Experiences of intensive treatment for people with eating disorders: a systematic review and thematic synthesis.

J Eat Disord

August 2024

Centre for Research in Eating and Weight Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.

Background: Eating disorders are complex difficulties that impact the individual, their supporters and society. Increasing numbers are being admitted to intensive treatment settings (e.g.

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Objective: People with attentional problems are at increased risk of eating disorders. This paper aimed to systematically review and synthesize the existing evidence on stimulant medication in the management of patients with bulimia nervosa (BN) or anorexia nervosa (AN) with or without comorbid attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Method: A systematic review was conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) guidelines.

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