Disordered eating doesn’t always lead to an eating disorder. But these behaviours – especially dieting – can be the first ...

In a heartbreaking final summary of her loss, Yehudit Bauman expressed the pain of saying goodbye to her daughter, former Israeli model Karin Bauman. “I can’t breathe,” said Karin Bauman’s mother, a ...

Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London have identified a ...

A new neuroimaging study published in Molecular Psychiatry provides evidence that anorexia nervosa is associated with altered activity in the brain’s opioid system. Women with anorexia had higher ...

The biased idea that anorexia nervosa affects only young, affluent women, and an emphasis on weight restoration, are contributing to such a lack of research; there have been no treatment ...

They are women in their 60s and 70s who have struggled with anorexia nervosa since childhood or adolescence. Years later, their lives are still governed by calories consumed, miles run, laps swum ...