Sleep-related eating disorders can be disruptive, dangerous and hard to notice. Here's what medical experts say about symptoms, causes and treatment. Joshua Cox-Steib Joshua Cox-Steib is a sociologist ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Topamax, usually prescribed to prevent epileptic seizures, is also an effective treatment for so-called sleep-related eating disorder, according to a new study.

Kara Becker, a certified eating disorders specialist and national director of eating disorder programs for Newport Healthcare in California, told Fox News Digital that people who experience this ...

Jill is living with sleep-related eating disorder, also known as sleep eating — an arousal condition in which part of the brain wakes while the rest sleeps. Sleep eating is a parasomnia, an abnormal ...

Coffee grounds and bleach aren’t normal midnight snacks, but people with sleep-related eating disorder have consumed them and other dangerous items without being aware. “I would wake up with these ...

Researchers analyzed 153 participants aged 18-62 years (mean age, 36 years) diagnosed with BED and enrolled in the US Binge Eating Treatment and Recovery program between 2020 and 2023. Participants ...

Jill was in middle school when she began eating in her sleep. Despite carrying the food back to her bed to devour night after night, she didn’t have a clue about what she had done until the next ...