New research found that individuals with anorexia nervosa have elevated opioid neurotransmitter activity, which may ...

A study conducted at Turku PET Center in Finland showed that changes in the functioning of opioid neurotransmitters in the ...

A study showed that changes in the functioning of opioid neurotransmitters in the brain may underlie anorexia.

A study conducted at Turku PET Centre in Finland showed that changes in the functioning of opioid neurotransmitters in the brain may underlie anorexia.

Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder, or ARFID, is an eating disorder almost as common as anorexia nervosa in Australia. But it's much less understood. ARFID is a newly recognised eating ...

The major eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, pica, and rumination disorder. They are relatively common ...

However, with treatment, most people with anorexia gain back the weight they lost and recover from the physical problems they developed due to the disorder. People with bulimia nervosa have ...

As her character Carol Seaver on television's, "Growing Pains" dealt with the perils of adolescence, actress Tracey Gold struggled with her own problem: a debilitating eating disorder. The studio ...

Correspondence to Dr Yasheer Venay Haripersad, Perth Children's Hospital, Nedlands, WA 6909, Australia; Yasheer.Haripersad{at}health.wa.gov.au Perth Children’s Hospital is the sole tertiary paediatric ...

For example, studies show that people are 7 to 12 times more likely to develop anorexia or bulimia if they have a relative with an eating disorder. Those genetic underpinnings may also help ...