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Essentially, Treasure and her colleagues have abandoned the idea that family dysfunction causes eating disorders and instead enlist the family to help guide patients' recovery. Most recently, the Maudsley method has also incorporated a new type of cognitive behavioral therapy, based on the autism connection, which aims to broaden the narrow thinking routines of people with anorexia. "We try to get them be more flexible," she says, "They want to have these rigid habits and we try to get them to break out of that and see the bigger picture...
...Laura Collins' 14-year-old daughter, who developed anorexia in 2002. "She ate an apple and thought she could see her arm growing," says Collins, who says it was clear that her daughter's condition was more than an obsession with being fashionably thin. Collins read about the Maudsley method in a newspaper article and sought clinicians who were willing to try it. "In the U.S., almost all treatment is predicated on blaming or marginalizing the parents," Collins says. Today, her daughter is thriving in college, and Collins runs a group called FEAST, which is dedicated to helping families find...
Meanwhile, researchers like Kaye have launched a six-site National Institutes of Health-funded clinical trial to compare the Maudsley method to more traditional family therapies. At U.C. San Diego, Kaye's group also provides affected families a weeklong intensive introduction to the Maudsley method. "At first," he says, he thought it was "preposterous" that such a short period of treatment would help at all, but "now I'm a believer. It doesn't work for everyone, but it does work...
What all these theories have in common is that same-sex sexual activity is either an accident or a quirky genetic method of helping males impregnate females. Which raises the evolutionary question of why men and women who are exclusive gay and lesbian exist. One answer is that exclusive gays and lesbians are a relatively new creation: the concept of exclusive homosexuality barely existed before modernity; even a century ago, most same-sex-attracted men and women got married and had kids. (Read "Do Monkeys...
...accuracy rises and costs drop, DNA analysis is becoming increasingly widespread. It's familiar to daytime-TV fans as the leading method to determine paternity; do-it-yourself tests are now sold at drugstores. Footballs used in the Super Bowl are marked with DNA to prevent counterfeiting; officials say there's just a 1 in 33 trillion chance of getting the pigskins' genetic sequence right. In recent years, DNA evidence has also been instrumental in identifying human remains. Authorities established a massive genetic database following the Sept. 11 attacks, and DNA science helped give closure to the relatives of victims...