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Overview of Current Brain Imaging Research on Eating Disorders

Doctors can carry weight stigma into their work

One difficulty in developing new treatments for eating disorders in the past has been the limited understanding of how brain function contributes to eating disorder symptoms [1]. Brain imaging technology [...]
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Exploring Sensory Process Disorders Connection to Eating Disorders:

A sensory processing disorder (SPD) alters typical food responses. You’re more likely to notice how something tastes, feels, or sounds. And during mealtimes, your senses could keep you from enjoying [...]
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Impact of Medical Marijuana for Anorexia and Bulimia

Girl smoking marijuana for her eating disorder

Anorexia and bulimia have been shown, through research, that there is an imbalance in brain chemistry than non eating disordered individuals. Marijuana comes [...]
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Women With Type 1 Diabetes Twice as Likely to Suffer Eating Disorders

Women with type 1 diabetes face challenges when it comes to caring for themselves and their health. Also known as “juvenile diabetes”, type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disorder in [...]
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Current Research on Feeding Disorders

Contributor: Crystal Karges, MS, RDN, IBCLC, Director of Content and Social Media at Eating Disorder Hope/Addiction Hope Feeding disorders are eating related challenges specific to children, from infancy through early [...]
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Understanding the Process of Research: From Hypothesis to Publication

Contributor: Crystal Karges, MS, RDN, IBCLC, Director of Content and Social Media at Eating Disorder Hope/Addiction Hope Eating disorders are complex psychiatric illnesses, and through various research efforts, we have [...]
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Are Eating Disorders Contagious? Understanding the Development Risk Factors of Eating Disorders

Woman struggling with Opioid addiction and it's connection to HIV

Contributor: Crystal Karges, MS, RDN, IBCLC, Director of Content and Social Media at Eating Disorder Hope/Addiction Hope Eating disorders are often associated with many misunderstandings, which creates shame, fear, guilt [...]
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Research on Binge Eating Disorder and Appetite Regulation

Brain and Eating Disorders Young Woman Eating A Salad

Contributor: Crystal Karges, MS, RDN, IBCLC, Director of Content and Social Media at Eating Disorder Hope Description: Binge eating disorder is influenced by several biological factors many that influence appetite [...]
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PET Studies on Eating Disorders

Contributor: Crystal Karges, MS, RDN, IBCLC, Special Projects Coordinator at Eating Disorder Hope/Addiction Hope Because eating disorders are complex and involve a multitude of factors, the possibility of research that [...]
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