Search results for 'Anorexia Nervosa'
Study reveals people with anorexia nervosa have increased fat content in their bone marrow
People with anorexia nervosa, paradoxically, have strikingly high levels of fat within their bone marrow, report researchers at Children's Hospital Boston. Their findings, based on MRI imaging of the knees of 20 girls with anorexia and 20 healthy girls of the same age, appear in the February issue of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20100209/Study-reveals-people-with-anorexia-nervosa-have-increased-fat-content-in-their-bone-marrow.aspx
Psychiatric disorders common in adults who have had anorexia
Many adults who were diagnosed as teenagers to be suffering from anorexia nervosa cannot work due to psychiatric disorders. A follow-up 18 years after the onset of anorexia has shown that one in four are on disability benefit or have been signed off sick. The long-term follow-up by the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, does, however, show some encouraging results.
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2009/03/26/47447.aspx
Important new finding for people with anorexia
People given a biological and genetics-based explanation for the causes of anorexia nervosa were less likely to blame people with anorexia for their illness than those given a sociocultural explanation, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study found.
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2008/01/15/34292.aspx
Important finding for people with anorexia
People given a biological and genetics-based explanation for the causes of anorexia nervosa were less likely to blame people with anorexia for their illness than those given a sociocultural explanation, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study found.
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2008/01/10/34208.aspx
Women with anorexia taste different!
Although anorexia nervosa is categorized as an eating disorder, it is not known whether there are alterations of the portions of the brain that regulate appetite.
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2007/09/26/30399.aspx
Seven out of ten women with anorexia recover
Anorexia nervosa is a disorder with a grim reputation. Even experts say that anorexia is often devastatingly chronic and carries high mortality rates.
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2007/08/02/28309.aspx
Parents well poised to help children overcome bulimia nervosa
Common practice in the treatment of adolescent eating disorder patients has been to exclude the parents. Many experts consider parents part of the problem and thus keep them away during therapy.
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2007/04/10/23334.aspx
Groundbreaking study of anorexia
New York-Presbyterian Hospital's Westchester Division (NYPH) will participate in a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) clinical research study of anorexia nervosa, the serious and potentially lethal eating disorder that mostly afflicts teenage girls.
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2007/03/12/22549.aspx
Anorexia nervosa may be genetic
A researcher in the United States says a ten year study into the eating disorder anorexia nervosa suggests that sufferers may have a genetic predisposition for it.
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2007/02/21/22075.aspx
Anorexia not alleviated by anti-depressants
Patients battling to deal with the eating disorder anorexia nervosa, do not benefit or prevent relapses of the life-threatening eating disorder by taking the anti-depressant Prozac.
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2006/06/14/18431.aspx
Treatment for anorexia nervosa
Treatment for anorexia nervosa appears to have improved outcome in terms of recovery and fertility and reduced the usual long-term excessive mortality.
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2006/05/23/18095.aspx
Eating disorders linked to perinatal complications
Certain complications during and immediately after birth are associated with the development of the eating disorders anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, according to a study in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2006/01/02/15151.aspx
Anorexia may be caused by change in brain chemical
A new study has found that women who have had a certain type of anorexia nervosa show a change in the activity of a chemical in their brain that is widely associated with anxiety and other affective disorders, for as long as one year after recovery.
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2005/09/07/13039.aspx
Anorexia nervosa linked with alteration of the activity of serotonin in their brain
Women who have had a certain type of anorexia nervosa show an alteration of the activity of a chemical in their brain that is widely associated with anxiety and other affective disorders more than one year after recovery, according to a study in the September issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2005/09/06/13008.aspx
Overactive dopamine receptors may help explain anorexia nervosa symptoms
Just why those with anorexia nervosa are driven to be excessively thin and seem unaware of the seriousness of their condition could be due to over-activity of a chemical system found in a region deep inside the brain, a University of Pittsburgh study suggests.
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2005/07/11/11621.aspx
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