Columbia Center for Eating Disorders

05/28/2026

As Mental Health Awareness Month comes to an end, here is a helpful coping strategy to try out!

https://thefeedblog.com/2025/04/07/same-old-story-use-cognitive-defusion-to-turn-the-page/

05/26/2026

Free continuing education event for clinicians working with young adults and adolescents.

About the EventThis session provides a comprehensive overview of the assessment and treatment of adolescents and young adults within a specialized inpatient and partial hospital setting. Dr. Bem Atim will introduce the unique clinical needs of young adults and how they are addressed in our treatment...

05/22/2026

In honor of mental health awareness month, click below to learn more about eating disorders.

If you think you know who gets eating disorders, you may need to think again.

05/05/2026

Last week, members of our team attended the Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP). Here is Dr. Muratore discussing Neurocomputational Mechanisms of Dietary Choice Across Healthy and Clinical Populations.

04/30/2026

Our colleague, Alexandra Muratore, PhD, studies the neuroscience underlying eating disorders, with the goal of improving treatment outcomes.

https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/clinical-research-spotlight-brain-circuitry-anorexia-nervosa

04/23/2026

Our colleagues Deborah Galsofer, PhD and Evelyn Attia, MD teamed up with Chloe Stacks at the Columbia College of Dental Medicine to better understand psychiatric comorbidities and dental anxiety. Just look at those pearly whites!

04/13/2026

“There is a general consensus that food should be consumed at intervals throughout the day — like meals and snacks — and should be met with comfortable, practical and often joyful feelings”

Dr. Evelyn Attia, director of our center, chats with Everyday Health on how to improve your relationship with food.

Your behavior and mindset around eating can say a lot about your relationship with food. Here’s how to tell whether you have an unhealthy relationship with food — and tips for improving it.

03/16/2026

Dr. Evelyn Attia, director of the Columbia Center for Eating Disorders, talks to SELF about the risks of GLP-1s for individuals that have a history of an eating disorder.

“There could be a quick and dangerous misuse of something that someone does not need...and they can get themselves into a very dangerous set of behaviors,” she tells SELF.

I’m a candidate for the meds, but they’re not for me—at least for now.

03/06/2026

Our colleagues, Blair Uniacke, MD and Pablo del Sol, MD, discuss how anorexia impacts all body shapes and sizes.

02/28/2026

Dr. Evelyn Attia, Director of the New York-Presbyterian Center for Eating Disorders (including the Columbia Center for Eating Disorders), and Dr. Suzanne Straebler, Clinical Director of the Center for Eating Disorders outpatient programs at Weill Cornell, joined the On the Mind podcast host Dr. Daniel Knoepflmacher to trace the history of eating disorders from ancient accounts of self-starvation to their recognition as distinct psychiatric diagnoses and contemporary cultural impact.

Their discussion covers diagnosis, treatment, and what is known about the prevalence of these conditions, as well as the genetic, neurobiological, and sociocultural factors that shape them.

https://thefeedblog.com/2026/02/27/eating-disorders-on-the-mind-a-podcast-conversation/



https://thefeedblog.com/2026/02/27/eating-disorders-on-the-mind-a-podcast-conversation/

Tune into the On the Mind podcast about eating disorders. Explore the history, treatment, and underlying factors of these illnesses.