Am Stars Advances In Adolescent Eating Disorders Adolescent Medicine State Of The Art Reviews Vol 29

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

About the Author

The Section on Adolescent Health (SOAH) provides an educational, representative forum for pediatricians who are interested in the health care of adolescents, and enables members to meet for the purpose of initiation, discussion and development of ideas and programs which will improve the health care of young people in their second decade of life. It provides an educational forum for the membership at large in expanding their basic pediatric knowledge and skills to include the adolescent patient.

Martin M. Fisher, MD, FAAP, is a professor of pediatrics at Hofstra North Shore LIJ Health System and a division chief at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center and North Shore University Hospital.

Neville H. Golden, MD, FAAP, is chief of adolescent medicine and the Marron and Mary Elizabeth Kendrick professor in pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine, California.