Background Eating disorders are severe psychiatric disorders with a complex etiology
involving transactions among sociocultural, psychological, and biological influences. Most …

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) has a primary role in neuronal development,
differentiation and plasticity in both the developing and adult brain. A single-nucleotide …

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a neurotrophin that plays a fundamental role in
development and plasticity of the central nervous system (CNS). It is currently recognized as …

Abstract The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (ie, DSM-5) currently
recognizes three primary eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge …

Objective Evidence associates anorexia nervosa (AN) with epigenetic alterations that could
contribute to illness risk or entrenchment. We investigated the extent to which AN is …

Objectives We tested the hypothesis that a common functional variant in brain‐derived
neurotrophic factor (BDNF), Val66Met, which has been shown to be associated with …

Obesity in children and adolescents is a worldwide health problem, characterized by various
somatic, psychosocial and psychiatric complications, and is often associated with adult …

Objectives To summarize and synthesize the growing gene x environment (GxE) research
investigating the promoter region of the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR) in the eating …

Background Body mass index (BMI) is known to influence the risk of various site-specific
cancers, however, dissecting which subcomponents of this heterogenous risk factor are …

Adverse life events have been shown to predict weight fluctuations and dietary restraint, as
well as eating disorders during adolescence or early adulthood. Since the s-allele carriers of …