Scientific articles

Confounding cause and effect, CBT theory claims that cognitive processes maintain eating disorders. Fewer than 50% of the patients treated with CBT remit and more than 30% relapse within a year. [...]

Gull used “external heat” to treat anorexic patients 100 years ago and we now report that warmth decreases anxiety in within 30 minutes in the patients. If they work, drugs take much longer to [...]

Long lists of endocrine and metabolic changes in patients with anorexia nervosa are published regularly. The commentary explains that most of these are physiological adaptations to starvation [...]

Mandometer theory: “the brain’s systems for reward and attention are engaged in anorexia” celebrates its 20th birthday! The theory has now been confirmed but misunderstood by others, who [...]

Södersten P. – eNeuro 2015;2:e0058-15.1–11. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0058-15.2015. View article >

Zandian M, Bergh C, Ioakimidis I, Esfandiari M, Shield J, Lightman S, Leon M, Södersten P. – Frontiers in Pediatrics, 10/2015; Vol 3(Article 89):1-6. DOI:10.3389/fped.2015.00089. View [...]

Södersten P, Bergh C, Shield J and Lightman S – The Lancet 2015, Vol 3: 314. View article >

Södersten P, Bergh C. – Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 2014; 26:750-751. View article >

Södersten P, Bergh C, Zandian M and Ioakimidis I. – Front. Neurosci. 2014; 8:234, doi: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00234. View article > The new paper explains how eating behavior acts on the [...]

Bergh C, Callmar M, Danemar S, Hölcke M, Isberg S, Leon M, Lindgren J, Lundqvist Å, Niinimaa M, Olofsson B, Palmberg K, Pettersson A, Zandian M, Åsberg K, Brodin U, Maletz L, Court J, Iafeta I, [...]