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Video: Recognizing and Addressing Eating Disorders and Body Image Issues

Our relationships with food and our own bodies are often complex and fraught with challenges. At their best, they can help lead us to both physical and mental well-being. But all too often, these relationships become problematic, resulting in people having negative body image. In some, this has the...

In the Media: Eating Disorders in Midlife

Dr. Holly S. Peek comments on how extreme food behaviors can last throughout a lifetime.

Video: Lecture – Eating Disorders

Presented by Esther J. Dechant, MD, McLean Hospital – McLean Forum lecture

Everything You Need To Know About Eating Disorders

Conditions such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder keep people from maintaining a healthy weight or from having a healthy relationship with food. While often assumed to be just a phase, eating disorders can have deadly outcomes if not properly addressed. It is important to note that...

Podcast: Understanding the Mind-Body Connection of Eating Disorders

Jenn talks to Dr. Holly Peek about eating disorders and their impact on both physical and mental health. Holly shares insights into how we can better understand the role emotion can play on our eating habits, and provides advice on how we can navigate a stressful world while staying true to...

Video: Understanding the Mind-Body Connection of Eating Disorders

The connection between our minds and our bodies is more powerful than we think and can impact our overall wellness. Our thoughts and beliefs can impact our bodies, and in turn, our bodies can affect our stress levels, sleep quality, and more. For those of us with an eating disorder, this brain-body...

In the Media: What to Avoid Saying to Someone With an Eating Disorder and the Best Ways to Offer Help and Support

Dr. Holly S. Peek and other experts offer ideas for supporting loved ones struggling with an eating disorder.

In the Media: COVID-19 Is Affecting More Than Just People With Anxiety and Depression

Dr. Blaise Aguirre and other experts describe how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting those with borderline personality disorder, schizophrenia, and binge eating disorder.

Podcast: Let’s Talk About Steroids

Trevor talks to Harrison G. Pope, MD, MPH, director of McLean’s Biological Psychiatry Laboratory. Dr. Pope talks about men’s misuse of anabolic steroids—drugs which have been used by millions to gain muscle or lose body fat—with potential long-term dangers. Dr. Pope is arguably the leading...

In the Media: Eating Disorders: How an Epidemic Is Expanding and Striking Younger

Dr. Holly Peek offers suggestions for parents trying to support children with eating disorders.

Video: Lecture – Using a Collaborative Model to Improve Detection and Treatment of Eating Disorders

Presented by Christine M. Peat, PhD, LP, National Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders – Visiting Scholar Series lecture At some point in their lives, some 30 million Americans will be affected by an eating disorder. Those with conditions like anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating...

In the Media: Gym, Eat, Repeat: The Shocking Rise of Muscle Dysmorphia

Dr. Roberto Olivardia discusses body dysmorphic disorder among men.

Video: Body Image and Eating Disorders—Effects of Media – McLean in Mumbai

Speaker: Dr. Ruksheda Syed In February 2019, McLean Hospital, in collaboration with the N.S. Vahia Foundation, offered a weeklong lecture series hosted at the Nehru Science Center in Mumbai focused on educating the public and professionals about brain and mental health. Learn more: mclean.org/mumbai

National Eating Disorders Brain Bank Will Contribute to Mental Health Research and Care

McLean Hospital’s Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (HBTRC) and the Foundation for Research and Education in Eating Disorders (FREED), an organization dedicated to helping determine the causes and risk factors associated with eating disorders, have partnered to establish the first and only...

FREED and McLean Hospital Launch the National Eating Disorders Brain Bank

The Foundation for Research and Education in Eating Disorders (FREED) and the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (HBTRC) at McLean Hospital today announced the establishment of the first and only national brain bank dedicated to research in eating disorders. The National Eating Disorders Brain...

Video: Lecture – Treating Eating Disorders at Non-Eating Disorder Programs

McLean Forum Esther Dechant, MD, McLean Hospital

Video: Eating Disorders, Overeating, and Borderline Personality Disorder

Hosted by Kristin N. Javaras, DPhil, PhD, McLean Hospital. Eating disorders are prevalent among adolescent and young adult women and are becoming increasingly common among middle-aged and older women, as well as boys and men. Dr. Javaras describes eating disorders and their symptoms (e.g...

In the Seat of Learning

With multiple programs falling under the Division of Women’s Mental Health (DWMH)—each with varying areas of expertise from borderline personality disorder to trauma to eating disorders and more—Shelly F. Greenfield, MD, MPH, McLean’s chief academic officer and chief of the DWMH, saw a need for...

Q & A: Shelly F. Greenfield, MD, MPH, Chief of the Division of Women’s Mental Health

In September 2013, McLean launched the Division of Women’s Mental Health with Shelly F. Greenfield, MD, MPH, as its chief. We recently sat down with Dr. Greenfield to talk about the division’s roots, goals, and projects. Horizons: What was the genesis of the Division of Women’s Mental Health? Dr...

Promoting Wellness for Girls and Women

In 2013, McLean launched the Division of Women’s Mental Health (DWMH) under the leadership of Chief Academic Officer Shelly F. Greenfield, MD, MPH, whose vision is to enhance opportunities for clinical, research and educational collaborations across McLean that will improve the understanding of...

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