Ms. Rosenberg didn’t know it at the time, but she had both obsessive-compulsive disorder and body dysmorphic disorder, or B.D ...

This essay was originally published in Salon on July 1, 2022. We're revisiting Salon's Best Life Stories of 2022 now through the end of the year. Read more Best of 2022. The problem started with the ...

Whole brain multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) reveals that seed brain regions including the thalamus [8 -6 8] (yellow), insula [-42 8 -6] (green), inferior parietal lobe (IPL) [-54 -38 38] (red), ...

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences. "People with anorexia and body dysmorphic disorder show brain similarities, differences." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 16 September 2020.

Despite advances in our understanding of eating disorders, many people still perceive these illnesses as vain lifestyle choices. There are, however, many neurological components involved in how we ...

In this video, Harrison "Skip" Pope Jr., MD, MPH, of Harvard Medical School in Boston, and Katharine Phillips, MD, of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City, discuss ...

When I had an eating disorder, I was obsessed with a particular part of my body, and any reflective storefront or car window was an opportunity. I needed to check and see if it was still as dreadful ...

Body dysmorphic disorder, also called body dysmorphia, is a mental health condition that affects how you view and feel about your body and appearance. It involves intense preoccupation with one or ...

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), or dysmorphophobia, is a mental disorder that provokes the individual to focus unduly on flaws in the personal appearance to an extent that it dominates thought, ...