PARIS -- Isabelle Caro, a French actress and model whose emaciated image appeared in a shock Italian ad campaign and whose anorexia and career were followed by others suffering from eating disorders, ...

What researchers can do is create animal models that accurately mimic key features of a specific disorder; they can then use these models to explore specific aspects of those features (i.e., what ...

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a serious psychiatric disorder involving self-starvation, an intense fear of weight gain, and compulsive hyperactivity, which has led to a mortality rate around 16.9 times ...

PARIS - France's health minister says she supports plans to criminalize the use of advertising with anorexic models in France. The measure would put France, a world capital of fashion, with countries ...

France is considering banning the use of anorexic models in the fashion industry. Legislation debated Tuesday in France's Parliament would require modeling agencies to get medical certificates from ...

Human research poses several limitations that make studying anorexia nervosa (AN) from a neurobiological approach difficult. Source: Anna Shvets/Pexels First, because people clinically diagnosed with ...