Practical Neurobiology for Clinicians: Eating Disorder Diagnoses & Neurology – Part III

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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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Practical Neurobiology for Clinicians: Eating Disorder Diagnoses & Neurology – Part II

Neurons setting off the danger warning due to health anxiety

The job that this DSM-5 provides is to help answer the question of whether or not an individual meets the criterion and may have an eating disorder. However, there is a [...]
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Practical Neurobiology for Clinicians: Eating Disorder Diagnoses & Neurology – Part I

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I am the Medical Director here at Laureate Eating Disorders Program. I’ve been here for almost 15 years now, and I really enjoy getting the ability to work with patients both [...]
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A Systematic Review of the Genetics and Epigenetics in Eating Disorders

DNA Strand for Genetics in Eating Disorders

Dr. Mark Gold’s Research You Can Use The identification of the first genome-wide significant locus, discussions surrounding epigenetic mechanism involved in linking environmental factors with disease onset and the remarkably [...]
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Yoga Therapy: A Healing Modality for Eating Disorder Recovery

Getting active can help with binge eating disorder and COVID isolation

Yoga therapy is a holistic healing modality that applies Yoga practices and philosophies to balance health. As an individualized approach, the client’s goals are the focus of each session. Common [...]
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Eating Disorder Prevalence: Is it Higher in the Transgender Community?

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Dr. Mark Gold’s Research You Can Use Research-to-date supports the findings that transgender individuals are more likely to be diagnosed with an eating disorder than the cisgender population. A recent [...]
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Expressing Disorder: Journey to Recovery

“Expressing Disorder: Journey to Recovery” was once but a vision for filmmaker David Alvarado, who sought to instill hope for sufferers of eating disorders and their loved ones. Following this [...]
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Gender Issues Related to Eating Disorders

As our society begins to explore further, and better understand, the spectrum of gender identity, we also begin to understand better how the gender issues impact an individual’s experience of [...]
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Eating Disorder Relapse: It is Okay to Seek Relapse Support

Contributed by Canopy Cove The journey to full recovery from an eating disorder is a tumultuous, yet completely possible one. When entering eating disorder recovery, one often thinks that it [...]
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Eating Disorder Relapse: Five Steps to Regroup and Resume Recovery

Contributed by Canopy Cove Relapse is treated as a “dirty word” in recovery circles, leading to the stigma that an individual that has an eating disorder relapse has failed in [...]
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