Publisher's Synopsis
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 disordersThe media and eating disordersAn integrated approach to eating disorders and obesity prevention: what the research has taught usSex differences among adolescents and young adults with eating disordersAvoidant restrictive food intake disorderAtypical anorexia nervosaThe female athlete triadBone health and eating disordersRecent advances in neuroimaging studies of adolescents and young adults with eating disordersNewer approaches to nutritional rehabilitationRole of the adolescent medicine provider and nutritionist in family-based therapyWhether partial hospitalization and residential programs for the treatment of eating disorders workPsychopharmacology and eating disorders.