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September 30, 2012

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7:52 PM | Endophenotypes and Biomarkers in Eating Disorders: Genetic Underpinnings, Personality Traits, Vulnerabilities – Part 2
This post continues the discussion of the chapter on eating disorders by Carolina Lopez, Marion Roberts, and Janet Treasure from The Handbook of Neuropsychiatric Biomarkers, Endophenotypes and Genes (2009). Part 1 focused on neurotransmitter biomarkers, and this second part will focus on the neuropsychological biomarkers. Neuropsychological biomarkers Attentional bias is the tendency for individuals to attend to or be distracted by emotionally relevant stimuli over neutral […]

Carolina Lopez, Marion Roberts & Janet Treasure (2009). Biomarkers and Endophenotypes in Eating Disorders, The Handbook of Neuropsychiatric Biomarkers, Endophenotypes and Genes, 227-237. DOI:

Science of Eating Disorders
Neuroscience | Psychiatry
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3:30 PM | Endophenotypes and Biomarkers in Eating Disorders: Genetic Underpinnings, Personality Traits, Vulnerabilities – Part 1
There have been some interesting discussions on the F.E.A.S.T. Facebook group over the past month regarding the role of genetics, personality traits, environmental factors and their role (or lack thereof) in the development of eating disorders and their prognosis. A parent group may seem like an unlikely forum for several hundred-odd comment threads on etiology; however, what we (caregivers, patients or clinicians) believe to underlie these disorders naturally informs our attitudes, decisions […]

Carolina Lopez, Marion Roberts & Janet Treasure (2009). Biomarkers and Endophenotypes in Eating Disorders, The Handbook of Neuropsychiatric Biomarkers, Endophenotypes and Genes, 227-237. DOI:

Science of Eating Disorders
Neuroscience | Psychiatry
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June 02, 2012

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12:58 AM | Who Gets Treatment? Your Ethnicity Matters
In 2010, I wrote a literature review on eating disorders in women of color in North America. I expected to find only a few articles on this subject – every lecture in my undergrad psychology classes, every piece of information targeted to the public, every discussion I had, it seemed, either omitted the existence of EDs in non-stereotypical (white, female, heterosexual, adolescent, upper/middle-class) populations altogether – or glossed over it with a footnote on […]

Becker, A., Franko, D., Speck, A. & Herzog, D. (2003). Ethnicity and differential access to care for eating disorder symptoms, International Journal of Eating Disorders, 33 (2) 205-212. DOI:

Science of Eating Disorders
Neuroscience | Psychiatry
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