Journal of Eating Disorders

Editor's Choice: Season of birth bias in anorexia nervosa

Outcomes from studies on season of birth bias in eating disorders have been inconsistent. This inconsistency has been explained by differences in methodologies resulting in different types of effect sizes.
The aim of the current study was to facilitate comparison by using the same methodology on samples from two studies with differing conclusions.

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Aims and scope

Journal of Eating Disorders is the first open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing leading research in the science and clinical practice of eating disorders. It disseminates research that provides answers to the important issues and key challenges in the field of eating disorders and to facilitate translation of evidence into practice.

Thematic series

Nutritional rehabilitation/ refeeding in people with anorexia nervosa

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2016 Editor’s Award winners

Congratulations to the winner of the 2016 Journal of Eating Disorders Editor's Award for Best Paper by an Early Career researcher

Marsha Rowsell, Danielle E. MacDonald and Jacqueline C. Carter

for their publication judged both on scientific merit and impact on the field of eating disorders:

Emotion regulation difficulties in anorexia nervosa: associations with improvements in eating psychopathology.

About the Editors

Phillipa Hay , Editor-in-Chief

Western Sydney University, Australia

Professor Hay is Foundation Chair of Mental Health at Western Sydney University, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at James Cook University, and Senior Consultant in Psychiatry at Campbelltown Hospital. She is a graduate of Otago University, Dunedin NZ, (MBChB, MD) and the University of Oxford, UK (DPhil).

Stephen Touyz , Editor-in-Chief

University of Sydney, Australia

Professor Touyz, PhD, FAED is a Professor of Clinical Psychology and Honorary Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Sydney. He is also the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Centre for Eating and Dieting Disorders. He has been the professor responsible for the clinical psychology postgraduate training programme at the University of Sydney since 1996.