Instagram can offer a supportive online community to people recovering from eating disorders. It can also reinforce stereotypes of eating disordered bodies.
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A new psychological intervention can help any parents - even those crippled by fear and self-blame - to become powerful recovery coaches to children with eating disorders.
Netflix's new film To The Bone simplifies the social causes of anorexia.
Criminalising websites that celebrate extreme, unhealthy thinness is deeply problematic.
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has asked the Medicare review taskforce to consider increasing the number of subsidised mental health sessions for those with eating disorders. Why is that necessary?
Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy Mark Butler told Q&A that eating disorders "are the mental illness type which has the highest mortality rate". We check the research.
Staring at one thing for a long time can cause you to see the next thing in the opposite fashion. This neural adaptation could be the underlying physiological basis of body-size misperception.
Young women (and men) have been dramatically restricting their calorie intake for centuries, but not all the symptoms of modern anorexia have always been present.
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation is an approved treatment for depression. A new study suggests that it may be effective at treating anorexia too.
Anorexia and bulimia only account for around half of eating disorders yet too often they're the only ones we take seriously.
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Professor of Psychology, Flinders University
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Director, Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Human Visual Perception, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Notre Dame Australia
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PhD candidate in marketing and men's health, University of Salford
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Researcher, King's College London
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Associate Professor, University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Western Australia
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Reader in TV Studies, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Laurentian University
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PhD candidate in the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph
