As a result of stay-at-home restrictions and sudden unemployment, millions of people are isolated at home without their usual routines and supports, with a large amount of unstructured time on their hands, less opportunity to exercise and obtain healthy food, and increased stress.
The researchers investigated how emotion regulation trajectories in children from 3 to 7 years of age were associated with symptoms of anorexia nervosa and atypical anorexia nervosa in adolescence.
The researchers studied brain responses in young women with eating disorders and control group participants when an unexpected salient sweet stimulus was received or omitted.
The researchers’ goal was to assess eating disorder symptomatology in transgender populations as a function of gender affirmation (ie, hormone treatment or surgery) and health determinants (eg, anxiety, depression, and weight).
The researchers sought to compare stand-alone psychological interventions for adult outpatients with anorexia nervosa with a specific focus on body-mass index, eating disorder symptoms, and all-cause dropout rate.
The impact of eating disorders in the United States was close to $400 billion for fiscal year 2018 to 2019 when considering both economic costs and reduced well-being.
