AM:STARs: Advances in Adolescent Eating Disorders

AM::STARs is the official publication of the AAP Section on Adolescent Health. Published 2 times per year, it offers adolescent specialists and primary care physicians timely information on matters that relate to adolescent health and wellness. AM::STARs:: Advances in Adolescent Eating Disorders covers a wide variety of topics, including:: Challenging classical concepts in the diagnosis and medical management of eating disorders The media and eating disorders An integrated approach to eating disorders and obesity prevention:: what the research has taught us Sex differences among adolescents and young adults with eating disorders Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder Atypical anorexia nervosa The female athlete triad Bone health and eating disorders Recent advances in neuroimaging studies of adolescents and young adults with eating disorders Newer approaches to nutritional rehabilitation Role of the adolescent medicine provider and nutritionist in family-based therapy Whether partial hospitalization and residential programs for the treatment of eating disorders work Psychopharmacology and eating disorders