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NEDA Congratulates our 2014 Award Winners

NEDA is incredibly honored and proud to announce the 2014 NEDA Award Winners, presented to individual for their outstanding contributions to the field of eating disorders:Westin Family Award for Excellence in Activism and Advocacy - Karen Samuels,…
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Announcing the 2014 Feeding Hope Fund Grant Winners!

NEDA is proud to announce the winners of the Feeding Hope Fund grants, whose innovative research projects will also make progress in the ways we treat eating disorders.The two winning proposals are Christina Wierenga, Ph.D. and Kerri Boutelle,…
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#NEDA2014 Conference Recap – Day Two!

Day two of the 2014 NEDA Conference was a day of hope. Both general sessions – the Family Panel and the session on Prevention – sent the message that when we stick together, we can make progress against eating disorders. We also announced…
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#NEDA2014 Conference Recap – Day One!

Howdy, y’all! NEDA is so excited to be here in lovely San Antonio for the 2014 NEDA Conference! This year’s Conference is themed, “Thinking Big: Uniting Families and Professionals in the Fight Against Eating Disorders,” and we are doing…
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British Politician Gives Blood to Fuel Anorexia Research!

British Member of Parliament, Brooks Newmark, was just 17 when he endured anorexia nervosa. He surely knows that overcoming the disease takes not only mass amounts of support, but research to help understand the dynamics of such a crippling…
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Dr. Tom Insel and the New Direction of the NIMH

Dr. Thomas Insel has been shaking up the world of mental and behavioral health for over thirty years. He has had an eclectic career and has studied everything from drug therapy for OCD to the biology of bonding in rodents. As the longest-serving…
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Harnessing Technology for Training Clinicians to Deliver Interpersonal Psychotherapy

NEDA announced the first recipients of the Feeding Hope Fund for Clinical Research & Training grant at the 2013 Annual Conference in Washington, DC. Totaling $400,000, the two grants were given to Daniel Le Grange, PhD and Denise Wilfley,…
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“Lessons That I Wish I Knew Before” and More from Dr. Insel, Director of the NIMH

EATING DISORDERS ARE FAMILY DISORDERSEating disorders are family disorders. Keynote speaker at this year’s National Eating Disorders Association Conference, Dr Thomas Insel, spoke from the heart.The Federal government shutdown meant he could…
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Day 1 of the NEDA Conference: Challenging the Field to Move Forward

As always, the first day of the conference was full of informative and inspirational presentations by all of our speakers, but this year's general sessions had a notable proactive tenor to them - they challenged all of us to move forward and…
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Medical Practitioners Should Heed: Evaluate Behaviors, Not Size

An article released today in the journal Pediatrics documents that a significant number of all who present for eating disorder (ED) treatment—nearly half, or more in some studies—were formerly classified as overweight or obese. While…