Neuro Transmissions
How To Treat Eating Disorders
Eating disorders can be difficult to treat. And recovery is often a long road. But how are EDs like anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder treated? And why is recovering from it so tough? We'll explore the mental...
Mazz Media
Talk It Out: What Causes Eating Disorders?
This program explores the individual, family and cultural factors that have been linked to eating disorders. Students will come to understand that eating disorders can be triggered my major events in a person’s life such as a life crisis...
Mazz Media
Talk It Out: What Is An Eating Disorder?
This program explains what an eating disorder is and what the main eating disorders are called? The program will provide an overview of Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and compulsive overeating. In addition students will come to...
Curated Video
Eating and Body Dysmorphic Disorders: Crash Course Psychology
In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank walks us through the troubling world of Eating and Body Dysmorphic disorders. There's a lot going on here and, even though we still have a lot of dots to connect, a lot we can learn to...
Curated Video
Beyond Anorexia and Bulimia: Exploring the Spectrum of Eating Disorders
Dive deep into the lesser-known world of eating disorders that affect a significant percentage of the population. From neophobia, where individuals fear new foods, to those who only consume foods of a specific color or texture, explore...
Neuro Transmissions
The Neuroscience of Eating Disorders
Many of us are lucky enough to live in a world where food is easily accessible. We no longer have to hunt wild animals or scrounge for edible plants to survive. However, in spite of (or likely because of) this luxury, millions of people...
Barcroft Media
I Hid My Eating Disorder For 8 Years
A 28-YEAR-OLD woman, whose weight dropped to 88lbs at the height of her eating disorders, is publicising her story to show other sufferers that recovery is possible. Lindsey Hall, from Fort Worth, Texas, says her eating disorders first...
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - Rolling With Resistance
In this interview Jenny Langley discusses an exercise she does with carers of people with anorexia that helps to illustrates the concept 'rolling with resistance'. This analogy is used to show how it is often unproductive to talk to...
Psych2Go
6 Types of Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are serious and often fatal illnesses that cause severe disturbances to a person’s eating behaviors. Obsessions with food, body weight, and shape may also signal an eating disorder. Common eating disorders include...
NPR
One 13-Year-Old Boy's Struggle With An Eating Disorder
Anorexia and bulimia, eating disorders once thought to affect only girls and women, affect a growing number of boys and men. Thirteen-year-old Jonathan Noyes is one of an estimated 10 million American males who struggle with eating...
Curated Video
The Most Common Eating Disorder You’ve Never Heard Of
When you think about an eating disorder, you might imagine restricting or purging food. But the most common eating disorder has nothing to do with either of those, and chances are you’ve never heard of it.
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - How To Deal With Insensitive Comments
In this interview Jenny Langley discusses how to deal with insensitive comments around the issue of eating disorders.
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - Introduction To The Series
In this video Janet Treasure introduces the Octopus TV series on eating disorders.
Gresham College
Feast or Famine: The Psychology of Eating - Professor Glenn D. Wilson
Is body weight due to a constitutional "set point" or to eating style? Do diets work or are they inevitably doomed to fail? Is self-monitoring (e.g., calorie counting, food diaries and regular weighing) useful or counterproductive. What...
Mazz Media
Talk It Out: I Have An Eating Disorder. Now What?
This program asks and helps to answer several questions: Do you or your friend have an eating disorder? Who can develop an eating disorder? By viewing this program, students will learn what they can do to help someone with an eating...
Curated Video
Why Eating Disorders Are Way More Common Than You Think
Eating disorders are very serious psychological conditions that can also be very dangerous - and they are much more common than you think.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Nutrition and Health: Lesson 1
This lesson will look at the effect that diet and exercise have on normal body functions. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Nutrition and Health."