The primary purpose of the study was to investigate genetic, environmental (e.g., teasing by peers, parent-adolescent relationships), and neurobiological (i.e., gonadal hormones) risk factors for disordered eating, antisocial behavior, mood, attention/hyperactivity problems, and temperament during early adolescence.
Major depressive disorder | bipolar disorder | Eating | obsessive-compulsive disorder | Disorder in the Court | Borderline personality disorder | Bipolar disorder | Substance use disorder | International Federation of Competitive Eating | Dissociative identity disorder | Congenital disorder | Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder | Vision of Disorder | Social anxiety disorder | Posttraumatic stress disorder | Narcissistic personality disorder | Like Eating Glass | antisocial personality disorder | What's Eating You | pervasive developmental disorder | Obsessive–compulsive disorder | major depressive disorder | Esophageal motility disorder | Eating With the Enemy | eating disorder | dissociative identity disorder | conversion disorder | competitive eating | Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder | World Pie Eating Championship |
Likewise, a study by Stice et al. in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology concluded that there is a direct relationship between the amount of media exposure that a young woman has and the likelihood that she will develop eating disorder symptoms.
As a clinical psychologist, her main areas of research interest have been exploring vulnerability to major depressive disorder and psychobiological and cognitive approaches to depression, bipolar disorder, and eating disorders.
Anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder of excessive weight loss and usually undue concern about body shape