Almost Half Of Young Women With Anorexia Or Bulimia Also Suffer From Some Personality Disorder Among the young women diagnosed as having anorexia or bulimia, 48.5% also suffer from a personality disorder. Even though treatments are effective, the percentage of relapses is still high. Being able to unravel and understand how personality disorders influence the tendency to relapse can also help increase the treatment's chances of success.

Teen Use of Eating Disorders Web Sites on the Rise
"People have always picked up and shared dangerous information," said one of the study's authors, Dr. Rebecka Peebles, an instructor of adolescent medicine at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine. "The Internet gives instant access to new and potentially dangerous information kids may not have encountered on their own." And parents often unaware children are visiting dangerous sites, study finds. Teens with eating disorders often turn to the Web -- sometimes for help with their problem but also for new suggestions on ways to lose weight. Parents, however, seem largely unaware that their children are using the Internet to visit eating disorder Web sites. Those are two conclusions from a new study in the December issue of Pediatrics that also found that teens who look for eating disorder information on the Internet are more likely to be hospitalized for their condition than teens who don't turn to the Web.

Violent Video Games Leave Teenagers Emotionally Aroused
Video games are big business with nearly $10 billion in sales in the United States last year. But along with growing sales come growing concerns about what effects these games may be having on the young people who play them.  A new study has found that adolescents who play violent video games may exhibit lingering effects on brain function, including increased activity in the region of the brain that governs emotional arousal and decreased activity in the brain's executive function, which is associated with control, focus and concentration. The findings were presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)