Originally published at Science of Eating Disorders. Please leave any comments there.

In my last post I talked about some methods that scientists use to study the genetics of eating disorders. I focused on a subfield of genetics called behavioural genetics (which you can think of as a field that attempts to understand, in part, the interplay of ( Read more... )

Originally published at Science of Eating Disorders. Please leave any comments there.

The culture of thinness, obsession with dieting or just bad mothering? When it comes to determining the causes of anorexia nervosa, the answer is increasingly none of the above. Evidence pointing to genetics playing an important role in predisposing an individual ( Read more... )