New directions in research on somatic concerns in individuals with eating disorders

CE Cusack, C Ralph-Nearman, JK Nicholas… - New Ideas in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Individuals with eating disorders (EDs) experience somatic deficits that may contribute to the
maintenance of ED psychopathology. This paper proposes new directions to consider using …

Body image perception and body composition in early adolescents: a longitudinal study of an Italian cohort

S Toselli, A Grigoletto, L Zaccagni, N Rinaldo… - BMC Public Health, 2021 - Springer
Background Adolescence is a sensitive period of life in which everyone faces physical and
psychological changes. No longitudinal studies considering changes in body image …

Visual mapping of body image disturbance in anorexia nervosa reveals objective markers of illness severity

C Ralph-Nearman, AC Arevian, S Moseman, M Sinik… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Body image disturbance (BID) is a core feature of eating disorders, for which there are few
objective markers. We examined the feasibility of a novel digital tool,“Somatomap”, to index …

Affective touch topography and body image

V Cazzato, S Sacchetti, S Shin, A Makdani, PD Trotter… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Recent evidence suggests that altered responses to affective touch—a pleasant
interoceptive stimulus associated with activation of the C-Tactile (CT) system—may …

Self-body recognition and attitudes towards body image in younger and older women

A Bellard, C Urgesi, V Cazzato - Archives of women's mental health, 2022 - Springer
Despite the fact that ageing causes dramatic changes in bodily appearance, little is known
about how self-body recognition changes across life span. Here, we investigated whether …

The ageing body: contributing attitudinal factors towards perceptual body size estimates in younger and middle-aged women

AM Bellard, PL Cornelissen, E Mian… - Archives of Women's …, 2021 - Springer
Over-estimation of body size, a core feature of eating disorders (EDs), has been well-
documented both in young healthy and ED individuals. Yet, evidence that altered body …

Evidence-Based Assessments for Transdiagnostic Eating Disorder Symptoms: Guidelines for Current Use and Future Directions

CA Levinson, K Osborn, M Hooper, I Vanzhula… - …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Eating disorders are severe and often chronic mental illnesses that are associated with high
impairment and mortality rates. Recent estimates suggest that eating disorder prevalence …

What is the relationship between body mass index and eating disorder symptomatology in professional female fashion models?

C Ralph-Nearman, H Yeh, SS Khalsa, JD Feusner… - Psychiatry …, 2020 - Elsevier
Low body mass index (BMI< 18/18.5) is utilized as a mandated cutoff for professional
fashion model employment, based on assumptions that low BMI indicates eating disorder …

Increased eating disorder frequency and body image disturbance among fashion models due to intense environmental pressure: a content analysis

N Bogár, P Kővágó, F Túry - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Female fashion models are under intense occupational pressure. The present
study focuses on assessing the lived experience of fashion models with regards to their …

Perceptions of the crowded sky as assessed through response to aerial infrastructure

CL Kolbmann, C Leslie, C Anderson… - Frontiers in Built …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Ever increasing numbers of wind turbines, communication towers, power lines, and aerial
vehicles are clear evidence of our growing reliance on infrastructure in the lower …