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Day Programs and Skills Training for Parents Enhance Outcome for Adolescents with AN

Alternative outpatient programs aid remission. After medical stabilization in-hospital treatment is completed, teenaged ED patients in poor physical condition or at risk of suicidal behavior can continue to be treated in a…

From Across the Desk

As the global COVID-19 epidemic continues, the Internet has proved to be a boon to many patients, including those with eating disorders. The number of online programs aimed at improving access to…

Update: Another Effect of the Pandemic: Higher Rates of Hospitalizations for People with EDs

The University of Michigan recently reported that teens with eating disorders were twice as likely to be hospitalized as teens without EDs. For example, in the first 12 months of the COVID-19…

Malnutrition and Risk of Severe COVID 19 Disease

Another good reason for ED patients to consider vaccination. It is clear that a variety of medical problems put people infected with the COVID-19 virus at risk for more severe illness. Recent…

ARFID and AN: Identifying Similarities and Differences

A small study seeks to better define ARFID and AN. Patients with avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) share one major component with those with restrictive-type anorexia nervosa. However, beyond this, the two…

Measuring Cognitive Function in Adults with AN

In two areas, patients had better scores than healthy volunteers. Despite their serious illness, adult patients with long-term anorexia nervosa do not automatically lose core aspects of cognitive function. In fact, according…

Risks of Intermittent Fasting

The main concerns centered on people with EDs. Many, many methods designed to produce weight loss have come along, and one of the most recent is intermittent fasting, or IF. What this…

Studying Elements of Personality: A Search for Better Outcomes

High treatment failure rates spur the search. Personality has been widely studied in those with both AN and BN, but the relationship between personality and the two eating disorders still isn’t clear,…

Treatment-Resistant AN

Those with binge-purge type AN had greater risk of resistance to being treated. There is still a real knowledge gap when it comes to patients with anorexia nervosa who do not get…

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: Antidepressant-linked Muscle Spasms

Q: One of my patients with bulimia nervosa has had troubling periods of dystonia for some time. Among the medications she has been taking is bupropion. Could this be the underlying cause?…

In the Next Issue

When a Patient Refuses Treatment Involuntary treatment of any psychiatric disorder has always been a controversial topic, especially for eating disorders patients. And, how to approach a long-time patient who suddenly and…

Effects of COVID-19 on Eating Disorder Patients in the UK

A small study identified three main effects of the lockdown on patients. As the COVID-19 global pandemic continues, researchers at the University of Edinburgh sought to determine how the pandemic was affecting…