Eating Disorders

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Adolescent and young adult vegetarianism: better dietary intake and weight outcomes but increased risk of disordered eating behaviors. 
  • Adolescent vegetarians. A behavioral profile of a school-based population in Minnesota. 
  • Adverse childhood events are associated with obesity and disordered eating: results from a U.S. population-based survey of young adults. 
  • Agreement between survey and interview measures of weight control practices in adolescents. 
  • Alcohol use, eating patterns, and weight behaviors in a university population. 
  • Applied behavior analysis in the treatment of childhood feeding problems. 
  • Are family meal patterns associated with disordered eating behaviors among adolescents? 
  • Atypical behaviors in children with autism and children with a history of language impairment. 
  • Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. 
  • Binge eating in an obese community sample. 
  • Binge eating in obesity: associated MMPI characteristics. 
  • Body Weight Misperception and Its Association with Unhealthy Eating Behaviors among Adolescents in China. 
  • Bone density and amenorrhea in ballet dancers are related to a decreased resting metabolic rate and lower leptin levels. 
  • Building evidence for the use of descriptive subtypes in youth with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder. 
  • Classification of eating disturbance in children and adolescents: proposed changes for the DSM-V. 
  • Comorbidity between abuse of an adult and DSM-III-R mental disorders: evidence from an epidemiological study. 
  • Comparison of men and women with binge eating disorder. 
  • Correlates of unhealthy weight-control behaviors among adolescents: implications for prevention programs. 
  • Cortisol decreases and serotonin and dopamine increase following massage therapy. 
  • Demographic and risk factors associated with chronic dieting in adolescents. 
  • Development and psychometric validation of an eating disorder-specific health-related quality of life instrument. 
  • Development of the Yale Food Addiction Scale Version 2.0. 
  • Dieting status and its relationship to eating and physical activity behaviors in a representative sample of US adolescents. 
  • Disordered eating among adolescents with chronic illness and disability: the role of family and other social factors. 
  • Disordered eating among adolescents: associations with sexual/physical abuse and other familial/psychosocial factors. 
  • Does body satisfaction matter? Five-year longitudinal associations between body satisfaction and health behaviors in adolescent females and males. 
  • Eating Disorders, Autoimmune, and Autoinflammatory Disease. 
  • Eating disturbances in white and minority female dieters. 
  • Effects of disordered eating and obesity on weight, craving, and food intake during ad libitum smoking and abstinence. 
  • Effects of motivationally significant stimuli on the regulation of dominant responses. 
  • Ethnic differences in psychosocial and health behavior correlates of dieting, purging, and binge eating in a population-based sample of adolescent females. 
  • Ethnic/racial differences in weight-related concerns and behaviors among adolescent girls and boys: findings from Project EAT. 
  • Family dinner meal frequency and adolescent development: relationships with developmental assets and high-risk behaviors. 
  • Family meals and disordered eating in adolescents: longitudinal findings from project EAT. 
  • Five-year longitudinal predictive factors for disordered eating in a population-based sample of overweight adolescents: implications for prevention and treatment. 
  • Gestational and postpartum weight change patterns in mothers with eating disorders. 
  • I know what you did last summer (and it was not CBT): a factor analytic model of international psychotherapeutic practice in the eating disorders. 
  • Influence of FK 506 (tacrolimus) on circulating CD4+ T cells expressing CD25 and CD45RA antigens in 19 patients with chronic progressive multiple sclerosis participating in an open label drug safety trial. 
  • Interpreting genetics in the context of eating disorders: evidence of disease, not diversity. 
  • Lessons learned about adolescent nutrition from the Minnesota Adolescent Health Survey. 
  • Momentary Predictors of Insulin Restriction Among Adults With Type 1 Diabetes and Eating Disorder Symptomatology. 
  • Multicenter, double-blind comparison of sertraline and placebo in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Nutrition management and dietary treatment of bulimia. 
  • Obesity, disordered eating, and eating disorders in a longitudinal study of adolescents: how do dieters fare 5 years later? 
  • Off-label uses for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. 
  • Overweight status and weight control behaviors in adolescents: longitudinal and secular trends from 1999 to 2004. 
  • Parents of children with eating disorders: developing theory-based health communication messages to promote caregiver well-being. 
  • Perceptions of secondary school staff toward the implementation of school-based activities to prevent weight-related disorders: a needs assessment. 
  • Picky eating in adults: results of a web-based survey. 
  • Prevalence and risk and protective factors related to disordered eating behaviors among adolescents: relationship to gender and ethnicity. 
  • Problematic internet use: proposed classification and diagnostic criteria. 
  • Psychosocial predictors of binge eating and purging behaviors among adolescents with and without diabetes mellitus. 
  • Reading magazine articles about dieting and associated weight control behaviors among adolescents. 
  • Report of two cases where sleep related eating behavior occurred with the extended-release formulation but not the immediate-release formulation of a sedative-hypnotic agent. 
  • Resolving feeding difficulties with early airway intervention in Pierre Robin Sequence. 
  • Safety of Appetite Manipulation in Children with Feeding Disorders Admitted to an Inpatient Feeding Program. 
  • Safety of alternate day fasting and effect on disordered eating behaviors. 
  • Self-discrepancies and vulnerability to body dissatisfaction and disordered eating. 
  • Self-presentation can be hazardous to your health: impression management and health risk. 
  • Self-weighing in adolescents: helpful or harmful? Longitudinal associations with body weight changes and disordered eating. 
  • Sexual orientation and prevalence of body dissatisfaction and eating disordered behaviors: a population-based study of adolescents. 
  • Shared risk and protective factors for overweight and disordered eating in adolescents. 
  • Sleep and Eating Disorders. 
  • Sociodemographic and personal characteristics of adolescents engaged in weight loss and weight/muscle gain behaviors: who is doing what? 
  • Sociodemographic, perinatal, behavioral, and psychosocial predictors of weight retention at 3 and 12 months postpartum. 
  • Steroid use among adolescents: findings from Project EAT. 
  • The addiction potential of hyperpalatable foods. 
  • The gender specificity of emotional, situational, and behavioral indicators of binge eating in a diet-seeking obese population. 
  • The global coverage of prevalence data for mental disorders in children and adolescents. 
  • The relationship between anxiety sensitivity and disordered eating: the mediating role of experiential avoidance. 
  • The role of social norms and friends' influences on unhealthy weight-control behaviors among adolescent girls. 
  • The significance of repetitive hair-pulling behaviors in eating disorders. 
  • Time of Day When Type 1 Diabetes Patients With Eating Disorder Symptoms Most Commonly Restrict Insulin. 
  • Treatment improves symptoms shared by PTSD and disordered eating. 
  • Variation of human amygdala response during threatening stimuli as a function of 5'HTTLPR genotype and personality style. 
  • Weight control practices and disordered eating behaviors among adolescent females and males with type 1 diabetes: associations with sociodemographics, weight concerns, familial factors, and metabolic outcomes. 
  • Weight-related sports involvement in girls: who is at risk for disordered eating? 
  • Weight-teasing among adolescents: correlations with weight status and disordered eating behaviors. 
  • What really constitutes moderate dieting and health-promoting behaviors. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Brancu, Mira, Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Social and Community Psychiatry