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If you could live longer, would you be weaned on an extreme, emaciating diet? The search for the foundation of youth has been happening forever and a popular idea in recent years has been caloric restriction - mice weaned on starvation diets live l ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2014 - 5:10pm - 0 attachments

... future clinical implications, especially among girls with anorexia nervosa. This research is part of a larger study into how healthy adolescents and those with anorexia nervosa -- an eating disorder characterized by excessive weight loss ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2014 - 5:28pm - 0 attachments

While there's no genetic basis for anorexia nervosa, psychiatrists say there may be a chemical treatment - oxytocin, the 'love hormone'.   Anorexia nervosa affects up to 1 in 150 teenage girls, primarily middle class ... complications and sometimes suicide.  People with anorexia often have social difficulties, including anxiety and hypersensitivity ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 12 2014 - 11:16pm - 0 attachments

If you have wondered why a disease like anorexia seems to impact primarily middle class white girls, a new paper in ... infrequent binge eating, purging or overeating. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are characterized by an excessive ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2013 - 6:24pm - 0 attachments

Eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are primarily cultural but the search is ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2013 - 1:30pm - 0 attachments

... as clinical addiction; 'binge eating disorder' (BED), Anorexia nervosa and Bulimia nervosa, while combining categories of substance ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2013 - 9:52am - 0 attachments

... are at greater risk of developing eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, a sign that there may be a psychology ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2013 - 10:49am - 0 attachments

Anorexia nervosa is a multifactorial neuropsychiatric condition that affects as ... yet consider themselves overweight. Individuals with anorexia tend to be perfectionistic, anxious or depressed, and obsessive. The largest DNA-sequencing study of anorexia nervosa to-date has linked the eating disorder to variants in a gene ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2013 - 3:24pm - 0 attachments

... people, you are correct. If you answered girls with anorexia, also correct. Girls with anorexia nervosa show a mild echo of the characteristics of autism, suggests ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2013 - 9:30am - 0 attachments

Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are psychological disorders characterized ... of neural circuitry contributes to restricted eating in anorexia and overeating in bulimia. The study used functional MRI to test ... to sweet tastes in 28 women who had recovered from either anorexia or bulimia. Relative to a cohort of 14 women who had never suffered ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2013 - 6:08pm - 0 attachments