Spotlight on Eating Disorders

• By: Thomas Insel, MD The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Director’s Blog
• July 1st, 2013
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What is the most fatal mental disorder? The answer, which may surprise you, is anorexia nervosa. It has an estimated mortality rate of around 10 percent.1 What is the cause of this high rate of mortality? The answer is complicated. While many young women and men with this disorder die from...