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The investigative team noted that teenagers with emotional and social support are better off to handle stressors such as biological and social transition, and are less likely to experience a variety of adverse physical and mental health outcomes.

The final episode in our podcast series on atypical anorexia discusses fat bias in health care and its impact on diagnosis and when pushback against diagnosis happens.

A laboratory-based assessment shows children aged 18 - 32 months old were less likely to listen to attention prompts or their parent's requests when provided an iPad versus a standard toy.

Dr. Erin Harrop discusses the necessity of understanding that eating disorders do not all look the same in every patient and how a multidisciplinary approach could be an effective way to diagnose and manage anorexia nervosa that is atypical.

"Parents still ask about this. Indeed, many years ago the FDA approved a prescription form of a PUFA, Vayarin, for the treatment of patients with ADHD. It is no longer available, so I assume it did not work. There may be good reasons for taking a PUFA supplement, but having ADHD is not one of them." -Jon Matthew Farber, MD

The primary endpoint of the study was to measure childhood stigma related to disease visibility.