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)
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