General practices have recorded a large rise in eating disorder diagnoses and self-harm episodes among teenage girls in the UK in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic, a research team has found. The ...

Sleep-eating disorders, like nocturnal eating syndrome (NES) and sleep-related eating disorder (SRED), may cause people to eat more than they desire at night. However, treatments are available. There ...

Researchers have identified many different causes for eating disorders, ranging from genetic risk factors to the culture a person grows up in. However, no single factor causes all eating disorders.

People often associate eating disorders with females. However, eating disorder behaviors, such as fasting, purging, and having a preoccupation with body image, can also affect males. The desire to ...

For years, eating disorders were thought to predominantly affect women and girls. But it’s estimated that 1 in 3 people with the condition is male, and that 10 million American boys and men will ...

Every 52 minutes, one person dies as a direct consequence of an eating disorder, according to the National Eating Disorders Association. Treatment and management of eating disorders requires a variety ...

Purging disorder is an eating disorder similar to anorexia or bulimia. Despite not having a separate entry in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), it's a ...

While the concept of eating disorders has become more broadly discussed over the last few years, less is understood about the psychology behind them — namely, what is happening inside the brain of a ...

This post was co-authored by Taylor Alves and Robert T. Muller, Ph.D. The hospitalization rates for young men with eating disorders increased by an astonishing 416% from 2000 to 2019. Despite this ...

People with eating disorders often describe their thoughts as obsessive and their behaviors as ritualistic, or say that their brain just will not stop. Some wonder if what they are experiencing is OCD ...