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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Last week, CEDaR was pleased to contribute virtually to the Society for Psychotherapy Research International Conference in Osaka, Japan. Dorthe Waage presented: "Developing and Evaluating a Digital Serious Game Intervention for Caregivers of Adolescents in Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa (AN)" ✨

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Thank you to Dorthe Waage who is the first-author on the PROLED paper, and to Nadia Micali, Anne Bryde, Bilal Ashraf, Jasmin Gryesten, Stig Poulsen and Angelina Mellentin for their contributions and hard work. 💜

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Signe presented two posters; “Designing and Adaption a Digital Guided Self-Help Program for Binge Eating Disorder” from the HALO Trial and “Predictors of Eating Disorder Treatment Satisfaction and Patient Perspectives: a Mixed-Methods Study”, a sub study from the PROLED study.

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Highlights included the keynote by Dr. Chibanda and his Friendship Bench program, neurodiversity informed care, and the educational session “Translational Advances in Understanding Binge Eating Behaviors“ where Nadia Micali gave a talk on the genetics of binge eating.

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

CEDaR at the International Conference on Eating Disorders (ICED) ✨ Last week, clinical psychologist Sofie Graakjær Trige and PhD student Signe Marie Hugger expanded their knowledge at ICED in The Hauge. 👇

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, we’re thinking about all those directly or indirectly affected by mental health challenges. Our goal at CEDaR is to better understand eating disorders and how to treat them so that those affected can get the help they deserve in time 💜

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Thank you so much to the Genetics Society, in particular Profs. Alison Woollard & Jonathan Pettitt, Cristina Fonseca, Helen Keen, Fergus Powell, & Dr Sally Le Page. 💜

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Last week, CEDaR postdoc @helenadavies.bsky.social attended the @gensocuk.bsky.social workshop 'Communicating Your Science', with activities ranging from science in stand-up comedy to designing activities for science festivals.

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Compared to previous work based on women who were not treatment-seeking or diagnosed using clinical interviews, our study focused solely on mothers with a clinician-assessed eating disorder diagnosis and who were, mostly, treatment seeking. 6/6

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Novelty: While previous studies mainly focused on the effects of maternal anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa on child psychopathology in population-based cohorts, our study focused exclusively on mothers with a lifetime eating disorder diagnosis and the well-being of their children. 5/6

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Findings: Children at familial high-risk exhibited more psychiatric disorders, emotional disorders, and overall more mental health difficulties and peer relationship problems. Puberty was a critical window of risk for children at familial high-risk for eating disorders. 4/6

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Aim: We characterised the psychopathological profile of 60 children at familial high-risk for EDs, compared to 63 healthy children at no familial risk. 3/6

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Background: Children born to mothers with an eating disorder are at increased risk of psychiatric morbidity, especially emotional and behavioural disorders. However, less is known about broader psychopathology and specific effects of maternal diagnoses. 2/6

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

We were also lucky to host Saija Tarro from the University of Turku (thanks to Erasmus +) and hear about her work: “Multilevel correlates of dietary behaviors and BMI in childhood and adolescence” 💜 3/3

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

"I got to present our work done as part of the eprObes consortium (see the artistic summary by Eleonora Nigro). It was a delight to learn about science and connect with colleagues, old and new. Thank you to #ChildhoodObesityConference2026 for such a great meeting." 2/3

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

It's been a busy couple of weeks! CEDaR postdoc Elena Jansen attended the 34th @novonordisk.bsky.social Foundation Science Cluster conference 'Prevention of Childhood Obesity: Body, Brain & Society'. 1/3

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Last week, Dr Elena Jansen attended the bi-annual eprObes meeting in Cordoba Spain and shared the latest results from the work being conducted at CEDaR 🇪🇸 125 participants attended (from 10 different countries!) Learn more: 🌐 eprobes.eu/eprobes/

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The study was carried out by Matteo Martini, Mie Sedoc Jørgensen, Cristiano Dani, Anne Bryde, Magnus Sjögren, & Nadia Micali 💜 8/8

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

✨ Overall, the results suggest that changes in weight and depressive symptoms do not always align, and that treatment response among AN inpatients is highly heterogeneous - pointing towards the importance of monitoring both weight and depressive symptoms throughout treatment. 7/8

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

5️⃣ No evidence was found for week‑to‑week causal links between BMI and depressive symptom change. 6/8

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

4️⃣ Early rapid weight gain in very underweight patients did not reliably indicate sustained progress. 5/8

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

3️⃣ Patients with trauma‑related comorbidity or more severe eating pathology were more likely to remain in the severe‑stable depressive symptom group. 4/8

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

2️⃣ We also identified two trajectories of depressive symptoms change during treatment: 1) moderate‑improving 2) severe‑stable 3/8

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Key takeaways: 1️⃣ Individuals in inpatient care for AN showed three different trajectories regarding changes in their BMI: 1) higher baseline BMI with consistent gains 2) low baseline BMIs with steady gains 3) low baseline BMI with early rapid gain followed by slowing or decline 2/8

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

⭐ New paper alert ⭐ Our recent study, published in IJED, examined how BMI and depressive symptoms evolve during treatment of anorexia nervosa (AN), what might predict these patterns, and how changes in one of these areas might relate to changes in the other area. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/eat.... 1/8

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Latent Trajectories of Body Mass Index and Depressive Symptoms in Inpatients With Anorexia Nervosa: Predictors and Outcomes

Objective Inpatient treatment aimed at weight restoration and psychiatric stabilization is often required for individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN). This study aimed to identify distinct trajectori...

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

· However, a substantial number of youth with previous atypAN were not captured by ICD‑11 AN criteria, highlighting a potential diagnostic gap. Authors: Luna Thule Viggers, Mie Sedoc Jørgensen, Anne Bryde, Bilal Ashraf, Signe Holm Pedersen, Nadia Micali, & Mette Bentz 💜 5/5

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

· The AN Binge‑Purge subtype showed greater severity than the AN Restrictive subtype, supporting the new ICD‑11 subtyping system. · ICD‑11 led to more full‑threshold AN diagnoses, which may help ensure appropriate treatment access. 4/5

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

· Only the ICD‑11 diagnosis (not ICD‑10) was significantly associated with higher eating‑disorder symptom severity, suggesting a potential improvement in differentiating AN from OSFED compared to the ICD‑10 distinction between AN and atypAN. 3/5

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Key highlights: · All prior ICD‑10 AN cases - and 127 of 411 atypAN cases - met ICD‑11 AN criteria; the rest were reclassified as OSFED. 2/5

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

⭐ New paper alert ⭐ Our recent paper examined how Danish youth previously diagnosed with ICD‑10 Anorexia Nervosa (AN) or atypical AN (atypAN) would be classified under the updated ICD‑11 criteria. 1/5 🔗 lnkd.in/eeHsVK2P

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

We had our annual New Year's event yesterday, bringing together researchers and clinicians to share new findings from some of our clinical studies 💙

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

THANK YOU to all participants, co-authors Heidi Jeannet Graff, Laust Mortensen, Emilie Hegelund, and Signe Dueholm Nielsen for her contributions to data analysis 💜 (9/9)

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

In summary: ✨AN & OED have increased in Denmark between 2000 & 2022, which the COVID-19 pandemic likely contributed to ✨EDs are multi-system conditions with high levels of psychiatric & somatic comorbidities ✨Recognition of EDs in males is needed to achieve healthcare equity across the sexes (8/9)

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

KEY finding 4️⃣ ▪️The impact of EDs at a healthcare level is further confirmed by their high level of comorbidity with many physical and mental health illnesses, which warrants a detailed investigation of timing of occurrence (7/9) 👇 Example: Associations between bulimia nervosa & ICD-10 diagnoses

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

KEY finding 3️⃣ ▪️ED incidence in males has steadily increased in Denmark since the early 2000s, particularly for those below age 20 ▪️ Despite this, the male-to-female ratio for ED incidence remains lower than the widely reported 1:10 ratio, indicating ongoing under-diagnosis in males (6/9)

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

KEY finding 2️⃣ ▪️ We identified an increase in new OED and AN diagnoses during the COVID-19 pandemic at the population level ▪️ These increases are specific to girls/young women below the age of 20 years (5/9)

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

KEY finding 1️⃣ ▪️ New diagnoses of EDs have increased in Denmark over the last 22 years (particularly AN and OED in young females) ▪️ This may reflect genuine increases but may also be influenced by shifts in diagnostic practices, clinical awareness, stigma, or healthcare access (4/9)

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

What did we do❓ (part 2) ▪️ We identified comorbidities via ICD-10 diagnoses from hospital contacts & prescription medication data from the Danish National Prescription Registry ▪️ We used logistic regression models to assess their associations with #eatingdisorders (3/9)

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

What did we do❓ (part 1) ▪️ We identified #eatingdisorder cases via ICD-10 diagnoses of anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), and other eating disorders (OED) ▪️ We calculated age- and sex-specific incidence rates for each year & prevalence for the years 2000, 2010, and 2022 (2/9)

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Big congratulations to Stefana Aicoboaie for leading this study and co-authors Edoardo Pappaianni, Mohamed Abdulkadir (@drmoab.bsky.social), Helena Davies (@helenadavies.bsky.social) and Nadia Micali 🎉

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

3️⃣The lack of significant associations between the included PRSs and cortical characteristics, in the presence of an association between mental health traits and cortical characteristics (specifically for anorexia), suggests that brain alterations might be state markers and not trait markers.

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

2️⃣ We found a significant association between body image distortion and reduced grey matter volume. The reduction in grey matter volume might follow symptom onset rather than be a cause/ risk factor of the illness.

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

1️⃣A higher polygenic risk score for anorexia nervosa was significantly associated with a greater likelihood of experiencing body image distortion (females only)

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT Is the genetic predisposition for anorexia nervosa, OCD and schizophrenia associated with clinical, neurocognitive, and cortical phenotypes in individuals without a clinical diagnosis? 3 key findings below 👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S003...

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Genetic risk and transdiagnostic traits in anorexia nervosa, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and schizophrenia | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core

Genetic risk and transdiagnostic traits in anorexia nervosa, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and schizophrenia - Volume 55

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

*CEDaR Away Day* Yesterday, our team came together for a mix of team-building activities, research discussions, and future planning. We left feeling inspired by the creativity, collaboration, and shared commitment to improving #eatingdisorder research. Grateful for this brilliant team! 💜

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Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

4️⃣ *New grant* 🌟 Thank you to Offerfonden for the grant (& Alice Højmose for the inspiration): "COMPASS Navigating comorbid PTSD and Eating Disorders", which aims to 1) understand the complex interplay between C/PTSD & EDs & 2) develop and test an integrated treatment Launching in Jan 2026 🚀

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