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Eating Disorders 2016
September 12-13, 2016
Volume 6, Issue 7(Suppl) J Obes Weight Loss Ther 2016
ISSN: 2165-7904 JOWT, an open access journal
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September 12-13, 2016 Philadelphia, USA
World Congress on
Eating Disorders, Nutrition & Mental Health
Mindfulness based interventions for eating disorders inpatients
Pier Fabrizio Cerro
Centro Regionale Disturbi alimentazione e Adolescenza, Italy
There is some evidence that mindfulness-based treatment programs can be usefully adopted in clinical inpatient settings
and for challenging problems, especially for eating disorders inpatients, suicide adolescents and borderline patients.
Keeping in mind that mindfulness approaches (MBCT, MBSR, ACT) easily lend themselves to applications in a group therapy
setting and on account of an excellent cost-efficient ratio resulting from this sort of application, these kinds of interventions
are particularly suitable in inpatient settings especially with eating disorders. In this report an example of the application of
a mindfulness approach for hospitalized patients with eating disorders will be illustrated. We will present the mindfulness
based therapy program inpatient treatment provided by the Department of Psychiatry of the CDAA (Centro Regionale per
I Disturbi dell' Alimentazione in Adolescenza) located in Pietra Ligure Savona Asl 2 Savonese Liguria, where an adapted
version of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) forms an important part of an integrated and multidisciplinary team
program for Eating Disorders. Setting, typical format of a group session, theoretical framework and some peculiar difficulties
will be discussed. Mindfulness based treatment programs can be effectively adopted in clinical inpatient settings for eating
disorders and they can optimize the resources of the staff. Furthermore it seems to be able to enhance treatment team process.
Mindfulness-based approaches offer a cost-efficient way to generically teach useful skills for disengaging patients from the
dysfunctional cognitive processing modes that characterize severe eating disorders.
J Obes Weight Loss Ther 2016, 6:7(Suppl)
The role of relaxin-3 system in stress-induced binge eating
Elena Timofeeva
Laval University, Canada
Binge eating is a core symptom in bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. Bingeing episodes are frequently triggered
by stress or negative mood and involve intake of highly palatable food. We developed a model of binge eating based
on individual sensitivity of female rats to increase sucrose consumption in response to stress. The rats were subjected to
unpredictable intermittent 1-h access to 10% sucrose. After stabilization of sucrose intake, the rats were assessed for consistency
of higher (for binge-like eating prone, BEP) or lower (for binge-like eating resistant, BER) sucrose intake in response to
unpredictable episodes of stress. The BEP rats consumed a larger (20%>BER) amount of sucrose in a discrete (1-h) period of
time compared to the BER phenotype in non-stressful conditions and significantly increased sucrose intake (50%>BER) under
stress. Analyses of the sucrose licking microstructure revealed that BEP rats had a high motivational drive to consume sucrose
in non-stressful condition and an increased hedonic value of sucrose when they were exposed to stressful conditions. BEP rats
consumed sucrose much more rapidly under stressful conditions compared to BER rats. In the brain, BEP rats demonstrated
strong activation of expression of or exigenic neuropeptide relaxin-3 and its specific receptor RXFP3. Central administration
of RXFP3 anagonist prevented stress-induced bingeing on sucrose in BEP rats. . These results highlight the potential role of
relaxin-3/RXFP3 system as a novel pharmacological target for the treatment of stress-induced binge eating.