Eating Disorders News

In a Danish population-based cohort study of almost 6 million people, researchers found that individuals with any mental disorder were at increased risk for comorbid mental disorders.

Study results published in the Journal of Adolescent Health showed that total weight loss and recent weight loss were stronger predictors than admission weight for several important clinical complications in teenagers with restrictive eating disorders.

Findings published in European Psychiatry indicated that patients with different subtypes of other specified feeding or eating disorders — such as atypical anorexia nervosa, purging disorder and subthreshold bulimia nervosa — may benefit from the same cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Opiant Pharmaceuticals has completed patient enrollment for its phase 2 clinical trial of OPTN001, a naloxone nasal spray for the treatment of bulimia nervosa, according to a press release.

Treatment with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation was feasible and acceptable to adults with severe and enduring anorexia nervosa, according to preliminary findings published in BMJ Open.

Teenagers with severe obesity who undergo laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy frequently have mental health diagnoses, including high rates of anxiety, depression and eating disorders; however, these mental health diagnoses did not affect BMI lost 12 months after surgery.

More than 20% of teenaged girls exhibited unhealthy dieting behaviors in 2013, compared with slightly more than 10% of teenaged boys, according to findings recently published in BMC Public Health.

Symptoms of disordered eating behavior were associated with later depressive symptoms and bullying in adolescence, according to study results published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Results of a large genome-wide association study on empathy revealed that genes play a small role in empathy, and that these genetic variations associated with empathy affect psychiatric conditions — such as autism, schizophrenia and anorexia — and psychological factors.

Feb. 26 through March 4 is National Eating Disorders Week, a time to put a greater spotlight on conditions such as bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder and anorexia nervosa, according to the National Eating Disorders Association.