Extreme thinness in models mobilizes eating disorders' researchers and specialists

Thinness: a woman's conflict or Eating Disorders: facts and the search for solutions.

Attachment-Based Interventions and Eating Related Disorders in Females

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of attachment-based interventions on females suffering from eating related disorders. The study method was experimental with a pretest-posttest control group. The study sample included 32 elementary school female students with eating disorders, obesity problems, and attachment disorders. Sampling method was purposive.  Methods: ...

Manipulation of thinness and restricting expectancies: further evidence for a causal role of thinness and restricting expectancies in the etiology of eating disorders.

To test the eating disorder expectancy theory contention that expectancies for reinforcement from thinness play a causal role in body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms, the authors manipulated expectancies in 2 studies. Participants were exposed to either a psychoeducational intervention or an experimental manipulation of thinness and restricting expectancies. Study 1 participants we...

Animal Models of Eating Disorders: Hypothalamic Function

INTRODUCTION 0 ne of the oldest and most investigated models of food intake disorders is the hyperphagia response to electrical stimulation of the lateral hypothalamic area (ESLH) in sated animals [1]. For decades researchers have been concerned with the possibility that under natural conditions, individual differences in the level of activity of neurons in the LH could override other mechanism...

Risk for Eating Disorders and Neuropsychological Functioning: Developing Risk Models