Treatment methods for eating disorders vary and often change, based on the patient's age and level of care needed. Changes to eating disorder treatment may cause patient distress, dangerous delays, ...

Healthcare professionals may prescribe antidepressants in addition to psychotherapy to treat binge eating disorder (BED). BED involves recurrent episodes of overeating, with feelings of guilt or ...

Researchers have investigated the feasibility of a new home-administered treatment for binge eating disorder. The new treatment combines a gentle brain stimulation technique called transcranial direct ...

A recent review explores forced nasogastric feeding in severe anorexia, highlighting ethical dilemmas, trauma risks, and the ...

Members of the Unviersity of Kansas's Center for the Advancement of Research on Eating Behaviors. The team has helped develop the BEST-U treatment program. When you study eating disorders like KU ...

A licensed psychotherapist, who once struggled with an eating disorder, is now helping others who also struggle. Despite possessing the second highest mortality rate of all mental health conditions, ...

A pilot study published today in Communications Medicine demonstrates the potential of a new approach to treating anorexia ...

Four-time Newsweek Best Treatment Center expands its integrated, dual-diagnosis model to address eating disorders and ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Purging disorder and bulimia share similar symptoms, and both involve purging food from the body through vomit or using medications. Bulimia and purging disorder are two distinct types of eating ...

One bride talks about how the desire to lose weight quickly spiraled out of control. By Kelsey Herbers The comments started the day I became engaged in December 2018: “You’re going to be such a ...

Otago University's Faculty of Medicine has released new research highlighting the need to embed Māori expertise and whānau centred approaches into national policy and treatment pathways.