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Gastrointestinal Interoception in Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia nervosa (AN) has among the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness, yet we have a poor understanding of the biological causes of this disorder. In this study, we use a novel mechanosensory intervention to examine the basic question of whether individuals with AN have abnormal "gut sensations" and …
Smart Technology for Anorexia Nervosa Recovery
Anorexia nervosa (AN) has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, with a typical onset in adolescence. Although family-based interventions are efficacious for up to 75 percent of adolescents with AN, approximately 30 percent will relapse after recovery. There is a critical need to improve treatments and prevent post-discharge …
Stress and Neurofeedback in Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia nervosa (AN) and atypical AN (AAN) are severe psychiatric illnesses associated with high disease burden including high treatment costs and excessive mortality rates. Primary characteristics of AN and AAN are food restriction, associated fear of weight gain, and a disturbance in how one's body weight or shape is experienced.The …
Helping HAND: Healing Anorexia Nervosa Digitally
The proposed project will develop and pilot a coached mobile app, including a social networking component, for individuals with anorexia nervosa to use in the post-acute period
Trial of Enhanced Neurostimulation for Anorexia
Preliminary open-label studies have suggested that non-invasive brain stimulation methods of both transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) have clinical benefits for improving psychological and eating disorder related symptoms, which can persist at long-term follow ups after acute treatment (i.e., at 6 and 12 months). …
Validation of BodPod in Pediatric Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia nervosa is a severe cause of undernutrition. It leads to a dramatic decrease of weight with an important modification of the body composition. During the renutrition phase, disharmonious body composition recovery is a relapse factor. Dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is the gold standard to study body composition in children …
Facing Eating Disorder Fears for Anorexia Nervosa
FED-F is a modular treatment that enhances exposure therapy with psychoeducation and cognitive skills teaching how to face fears of (a) food, (b) weight gain, (c) interoception/body, and (d) social situations. The study goals are to (1) refine and test the acceptability and feasibility of FED-F treatment (Phase I), (2) …
Deep Brain Stimulation for Severe Anorexia Nervosa
The somatic complications as well as the suicidal risk make Anorexia Nervosa (AN) the psychiatric disease with the highest mortality rate: the standardized mortality ratio is higher than 4 and 1 in 5 patients with AN who dies has committed suicide. Approximately 20% of patients suffering from AN evolves into …
Transdermal Estrogen in Women With Anorexia Nervosa
Randomized, placebo-controlled study investigating the use of physiologic, transdermal estrogen for low bone mass in adult women with anorexia nervosa.
Food Intake and IgA Microbiota in Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia nervosa is characterized by intestinal dysbiosis, related to the feeding behavior impairment presented by these patients. Pathophysiologic hypotheses are involving the trouble of the microbiota-gut-brain axis in the field of mental diseases.