PARIS -- Isabelle Caro, a French actress and model whose emaciated image appeared in a shock Italian ad campaign and whose anorexia and career were followed by others suffering from eating disorders, ...

An international research team, led by scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, has created the first cellular model of anorexia nervosa (AN), reprogramming induced ...

Human research poses several limitations that make studying anorexia nervosa (AN) from a neurobiological approach difficult. Source: Anna Shvets/Pexels First, because people clinically diagnosed with ...

Both ABA and RW groups demonstrate elevated preference for novel social over other novel stimuli. Empty symbols represent SAL-treated mice; filled symbols represent psilocybin-treated mice. Data are ...

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a serious psychiatric disorder involving self-starvation, an intense fear of weight gain, and compulsive hyperactivity, which has led to a mortality rate around 16.9 times ...

PARIS - France's health minister says she supports plans to criminalize the use of advertising with anorexic models in France. The measure would put France, a world capital of fashion, with countries ...

ROME – The Italian government and the fashion industry joined forces Saturday in a campaign against anorexic models, which includes attention to the “full-bodied” and a commitment to add larger sizes ...

What researchers can do is create animal models that accurately mimic key features of a specific disorder; they can then use these models to explore specific aspects of those features (i.e., what ...