Young patients who starve themselves risk bradycardia, anemia, bone loss—and even death. Yet few patients receive proper care, experts say. She’s starving but not hungry and skeletally thin but says ...

Eating disorders can harm a person's physical and mental health in ways that linger for years, a new study reports. Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and other such disorders bring with them a high risk ...

A recent article published in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry by an international group of expert clinicians and researchers offers one of the clearest and most ethically grounded ...

Ten to 40 percent of patients with anorexia nervosa are diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Likewise, 11 percent of patients with a primary diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder have a ...

Adolescent-onset anorexia nervosa is associated with significantly lower likelihood of full-time employment over a 30-year period, higher long-term health care utilization, and increased reliance on ...

Both ABA and RW groups demonstrate elevated preference for novel social over other novel stimuli. Empty symbols represent SAL-treated mice; filled symbols represent psilocybin-treated mice. Data are ...

All forms of anorexia nervosa feature behaviors of calorie restriction. When you primarily manage your weight through dieting, fasting, and excessive exercise, you may be living with restricting type ...

A growing number of older women are seeking treatment for eating disorders. Many have struggled without help for decades. In 2012, Janice Bremis went to an eating disorder treatment facility in ...

Constipation in anorexia is more than just infrequent bathroom trips. It’s a side effect of how the eating disorder affects gastric function. Anorexia nervosa, often called “anorexia” for short, is an ...

Anorexia is a severe psychiatric condition and the eating disorder with the highest mortality rate. Without treatment, it can cause health complications that may lead to multiple organ failure. Also ...

Anorexia is an eating disorder and a mental health condition that can be straining on both a physical and an emotional level. While eating disorders, including anorexia, are classified as mental ...

Hadley Freeman’s “Good Girls” (Bookshelf, May 1) is the most insightful book I have ever read as to the causes of anorexia. Most anorexics aren’t part of the prison system that a psychiatrist ...