RCT shows CBT is more effective than psychoanalytic psychotherapy for...
I had actually heard about this Danish study, published recently by Poulsen et al. (2014) in the American Journal of Psychiatry, before it landed in my inbox. The findings are interesting because they...
View ArticleCorpulence and compassion: weight bias among professionals treating eating...
We elves are kept continually up to date with equality and diversity training, having had many centuries to build a society that rises above such petty differences, but we remain curious about the many...
View ArticleWatching what you eat: does mindfulness work for binging and weight loss?
Helen Bould tells us that mindfulness may do many things, and is queuing up to take its place with CBT as the panacea of mental illness, but in her view it cannot yet lay claim to solving binge eating....
View ArticleCan schools prevent eating disorders?
In 2012 there was a call from Parliament to research school interventions to reduce body dissatisfaction. Helen Bould reports on an RCT of school-based prevention programme for eating disorders, which...
View ArticleMeta-review presents the risks of all-cause and suicide mortality in mental...
This recent and well-conducted meta-review concludes that the impact on mortality and suicide of mental disorders is substantial, and probably poorly appreciated as a public health problem. Raphael...
View ArticleEating disorders: mapping the (lack of) evidence
Helen Bould summarises a recent review that maps the evidence for the prevention and treatment of eating disorders in young people. Her conclusion? A call to arms for more better quality research to...
View ArticleEating disorders: how can we care for carers?
Helen Bould summarises a meta-analysis of interventions for caregivers of someone with an eating disorder, which highlights a lack of high quality primary research. The post Eating disorders: how can...
View ArticleE-therapy for eating disorders: review finds lack of evidence for digital...
Helen Bould summarises a new systematic review that finds a lack of evidence for the digital treatment or prevention of eating disorders. With so many new websites and apps popping up every week, why...
View ArticleLisdexamfetamine for binge-eating disorder
David Steele summarises a recent randomised controlled trial, which finds that (in the short-term) Lisdexamfetamine successfully decreased binge-eating behaviour in patients with binge-eating disorder....
View ArticleMedication versus placebo for anorexia nervosa: antidepressants,...
In her debut blog, Nicola Coop summarises a recent meta-analysis looking at the use of antidepressants, antipsychotics and hormonal therapy for people with anorexia nervosa. The post Medication versus...
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