Eating Disorders

Even after pandemic stay-at-home orders were lifted, people with obesity continued to struggle with mental health challenges, according to a study published online in Clinical Obesity.

Eating disorder treatment provider Monte Nido & Affiliates has opened a residential center near San Francisco. Monte Nido East Bay, located in Lafayette, California, will offer treatment to adults of all genders. The move represents a return home for the California-based Monte Nido, which has…

In a one-year period stretching from 2018 to 2019, an estimated 10,200 people died as a direct result of eating disorders, and the number of eating disorder cases is projected to increase by 5% over the next decade, according to a recently published report. The study was conducted by the Strategic…

Changes in affect were observed before and after episodes of binge eating in people with binge eating disorder (BED), researchers found in a study recently published online in Abnormal Psychology.

The Emily Program has announced that it has opened a facility in Columbus, Ohio, and joined with the Center for Balanced Living to increase eating disorder treatment services in central Ohio. The Emily Program – Columbus will offer individual and group outpatient therapy and intensive programs for…

Mindfulness is inversely associated with eating disorder psychopathology, according to a meta-analysis published online in the International Journal of Eating Disorders.

Patients with binge eating disorder reported significant reductions in symptoms and impairment after receiving cognitive behavioral therapy-guided self-help treatment delivered over the phone by a health coach and assisted by a smartphone app.

Five years after undergoing bariatric surgery and substantial weight loss as adolescents, young adults showed small gains in self-esteem and moderate improvements in binge eating, yet their mental health problems persisted, researchers reported.

Subthreshold and threshold post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are associated with binge eating symptoms in both men and women, according to a study published in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

A pattern of overeating followed by undereating may reduce the ability of the brain to feel reward and drive compulsive eating, a common feature of eating disorders, suggests a study published online in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology.