title: Academy of eating disorders international conference.
abstract: New information is being acquired and disseminated about eating disorders, particularly in terms of integrating the roles of genes and environment, and new treatment approaches. Although evidence indicates that genes are not more important in the aetiology of anorexia nervosa (AN) than bulimia nervosa, Western culture does appear to be more important in the aetiology of bulimia nervosa than AN. Pathological fear conditioning offers a very useful and experimentally testable theory of the aetiology of AN. New evidence suggests that an enhanced, 'transdiagnostic' form of cognitive behavioural therapy is highly effective in eating disorder patients suitable for out-patient treatment. Patients who are homozygotic for the short (s) allele of the 5-hydroxytryptamine transporter gene promoter region appear to be more resistant to multimodal treatment.
authors.affiliation: Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Charleston, SC 29425, USA. tbrewerton1@comcast.net
authors.forename: Timothy D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Brewerton
mesh_terms: D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods; D003469:Culture; D004777:Environment; D005239:Fear / Q000523:psychology; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000523:psychology; D005431:Florida; D006801:Humans; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000235:genetics; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic / Q000235:genetics; D012701:Serotonin / Q000378:metabolism; D050486:Serotonin Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins; D013577:Syndrome
chemical_list: D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; C493230:SLC6A4 protein, human; D050486:Serotonin Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins; D012701:Serotonin