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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.

 

Contact Us

Address: 

Eating Behaviors Research Clinic 

Florida State University 

1107 West Call St, A413

Tallahassee, FL 32304

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Email:

eatingbehaviors@psy.fsu.edu

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Lab Phone: 

(850)-645-1699

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