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• Memory Disorders and the Caregiving Gap: One Woman’s Story

  There’s a growing issue in the U.S. health landscape—the rapid increase in diagnoses of memory disorders. Currently, more than 5.3 million Americans live with Alzheimer’s disease, and that number is projected to swell in the coming years.

• When Eating Disorders Don’t Look As Expected

  What image comes to your mind when you think about someone with an eating disorder? There’s a good chance you picture a young, Caucasian teenage girl with anorexia, who may be painfully thin. Or, perhaps, you picture someone with bulimia as a heavier person, who is ordering through the drive through lane with a car already filled with food wrappers.

• Eating Disorders Change How you Taste Food

  Eating disorders may affect how you taste and enjoy food, according to a recent study out of the University of Colorado.

• Do I Have an Anxiety Disorder?

  Everyone worries or feels stressed out on occasion. For the millions of people who live with anxiety disorders, these experiences are far more severe. That worry, stress and fear can negatively affect their work, social life, relationships or even just their ability to function. There is reason to have hope: Anxiety disorders are highly treatable through a variety of methods, including psychotherapy and medications.

• Memory Loss: It's Not Always About Aging

  Blaming memory loss on age is so common we even have a term for it. Who hasn’t joked about having a “senior moment” when you forget something? Maybe you blanked on the name of a neighbor or searched the whole house for your cell phone -- only to find you were talking on it the whole time.

• How To Spot Eating Disorders in Kids and Teens

  Are you sending your kids the right messages about food and body image? Eating disorders are diagnosed not just in teens, but in children younger than 12. So it’s important to teach your kids from an early age to have a healthy relationship with food and positive feelings toward their body.

• High Blood Pressure’s Hidden Risk: Memory Loss

  As you get older, it’s inevitable that you’ll experience a bit of memory loss. The brain, just like every other part of your body, will lose some of its ability to function at peak levels. Your full range of cognitive functions – the inner workings of the brain – can begin to slip a little as the years roll by. 

• How an ‘Emotional Hangover’ Affects Your Memory

  A new study indicates that emotional events may improve memory and affect future experiences.

• Understanding Binge Eating Disorders

  Research shows between 2 percent to nearly 4 percent of adults have binge eating disorders.

• Sleep Disorders: What Are Parasomnias?

  When we think of sleep disorders, we tend to focus on insomnia. But sleep disorders can also include strange and seemingly inexplicable behaviors, especially in the twilight period between rest and wakefulness. These are known as parasomnias, and the symptoms can vary in severity from patient to patient.