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Eating Behaviors Research Clinic: Psychology Department at Florida State University
What are eating disorders?
Diagnoses in the DSM emerge from a combination of clinical observation, empirical research, and expert consensus.
Dr. Keel identified and characterized Purging Disorder which was included in the DSM-5 as an Other Specified Eating or Feeding Disorder. The Void Inside: Bringing Purging Disorder to Light describes everything we and others have learned about purging disorder and was released by Oxford University Press on July 31, 2020.
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What happens to individuals with eating disorders?
To fully appreciate the consequences of eating disorders, we have to study their impact on people’s lives over extended durations of follow-up.
Dr. Keel has conducted multiple long-term follow-up studies of individuals with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and more recently purging disorder.
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Among these studies, Dr. Keel leads an ongoing epidemiological and longitudinal study of successive cohorts drawn from Harvard University in 1982, 1992, 2002, and 2012 and followed repeatedly at 10-year intervals.
What contributes to the development and maintenance of eating disorders and body image disturbance?
No single factor can explain why someone has an eating disorder. Using a range of methodologies, Dr. Keel has examined various sources of influence including social media, weight suppression (WS), ovarian hormones, gut peptides, genetics, reward value, and reward satiation.
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Weight Suppression (WS) is the difference between a person's highest lifetime weight and current weight. Greater WS predicts both the onset and maintenance of bulimic eating disorders.
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Eating Behaviors Research Clinic
Florida State University
1107 West Call St, A413
Tallahassee, FL 32304