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How to Seek and Find Treatment for Binge Eating Disorder

You’ve done it. You’ve decided to enter inpatient treatment for binge eating disorder (BED). That is incredible. You have been on an exhausting and challenging journey to get to this point, and [...]
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Amy Waddle’s Recovery Story

My name is Amy Waddle. I am an eating disorder, sexual abuse, suicide survivor who lives with Bipolar II disorder, and I’ve lived with bipolar since adolescence. I adopted the [...]
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Adult Inpatient Treatment for Longstanding Eating Disorders

Woman battling Longstanding Eating Disorders and Addiction

It is important to assert, before beginning this article, that recovery from an eating disorder is absolutely possible. That said, it does not come easily and, on some occasions, does [...]
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Sugar-Sweetened Beverages May Be Potentially Addictive

Dr. Mark Gold’s Research You Can Use Young people enjoy and consume the most significant amounts of sugar-sweetened beverages than any other age group in the U.S. As a consequence, [...]
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Avoiding Burnout as an Eating Disorder Professional

@ Kristen Eykel Kristen Eykel Cht. is a Karuna Reiki/ Holy Fire II Master Teacher, Kundalini & Master Yoga Teacher, Author, Public Speaker, and Pregnancy/ Birth [...]
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Practical Neurobiology for Clinicians: Eating Disorder Diagnoses & Neurology – Part VI

environmental factors of Eating Disorders

When looking at individuals with bulimia, there is more dopamine drive in this reward chemical. As such, you can’t only focus on eating. You have to also watch for drug [...]
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Practical Neurobiology for Clinicians: Eating Disorder Diagnoses & Neurology – Part V

It is only in the last 20 years that the idea of anorexia as a biologic controlled genetic mental illness has come about. For so long, treatment focused on the need [...]
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Nutritional Status Affects Cortical Folding: Lessons Learned From Anorexia Nervosa

sketch of the human brain and Cortical Folding

Dr. Mark Gold’s Research You Can Use Cortical folding in the human brain is complex and variable among individuals. It may also reflect pathological functioning with certain abnormalities associated in [...]
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Practical Neurobiology for Clinicians: Eating Disorder Diagnoses & Neurology – Part IV

Image of brain and Eating Disorder Brain Traits

As we learn more about brain traits that predispose people to eating disorders, people want to know, “what traits make my brain more at risk?” Unfortunately, there is little good science [...]
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Practical Neurobiology for Clinicians: Eating Disorder Diagnoses & Neurology – Part III

Image of brain on how to change the Eating Disorder Cycle

As a child psychiatrist, I don’t often get a lot of biological information. I’ll see if someone has anorexia by how their body looks, whether or not they are malnourished, [...]
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