PMID- 37439970 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230907 LR - 20240312 IS - 2162-4968 (Electronic) IS - 2162-4968 (Linking) VI - 12 IP - 3 DP - 2023 Sep TI - Binge-Eating Disorder Interventions: Review, Current Status, and Implications. PG - 406-416 LID - 10.1007/s13679-023-00517-0 [doi] AB - PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Binge-eating disorder (BED) is a serious psychiatric problem associated with substantial morbidity that, unfortunately, frequently goes unrecognized and untreated. This review summarizes the current status of behavioral, psychological, pharmacological, and combined treatments for BED in adults with a particular focus on recent findings and advances. RECENT FINDINGS: Certain specific psychological treatments, notably CBT and IPT, and to some extent DBT, have demonstrated efficacy and are associated with durable benefits after treatment. Certain specific lower-cost scalable interventions, notably CBTgsh, have demonstrated efficacy and have potential for broader uptake. An important advance is the emerging RCT data indicating that BWL, a generalist and available behavioral lifestyle intervention, has effectiveness that approximates that of CBT for reducing binge eating and eating-disorder psychopathology but with the advantage of also producing modest weight loss. There exists only one pharmacological agent (LDX) with approval by the FDA for "moderate-to-severe" BED. Research with other "off label" medications has yielded modest and mixed outcomes with a few medications statistically superior to placebo over the short-term and almost no longer-term data. Nearly all research combining medications and psychological treatments has failed to enhance outcomes (combined appears superior to pharmacotherapy-only but not to psychotherapy-only). Many people with BED suffer in silence and shame, go untreated, and rarely receive evidence-based treatments. Patients and practitioners need to recognize that research has identified several effective interventions for BED, and these can work quickly for many patients. Future research should identify treatments for those who do not derive benefit from initial interventions, identify additional pharmacological options, test agents with relevant mechanisms of action, and utilize innovative adaptative "SMART" designs to identify treatments to enhance outcomes among initial responders and to test alternative treatments to assist initial non-responders. CI - (c) 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. FAU - Grilo, Carlos M AU - Grilo CM AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0245-3444 AD - Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. carlos.grilo@yale.edu. AD - Yale Program for Obesity Weight and Eating Research (POWER), New Haven, CT, USA. carlos.grilo@yale.edu. FAU - Juarascio, Adrienne AU - Juarascio A AD - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. AD - Drexel University Center for Weight, Eating and Lifestyle Science (WELL), Philadelphia, PA, USA. LA - eng GR - R01 DK117072/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - UL1 TR001863/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 DK112771/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - DK114075/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 DK049587/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 DK114075/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - 112771/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20230713 PL - United States TA - Curr Obes Rep JT - Current obesity reports JID - 101578283 SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Humans MH - *Binge-Eating Disorder/psychology MH - Psychotherapy MH - Behavior Therapy MH - Weight Loss MH - *Bulimia MH - Treatment Outcome PMC - PMC10528223 MID - NIHMS1920357 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Behavior therapy OT - Binge eating OT - Cognitive-behavioral therapy OT - Eating disorders OT - Obesity OT - Pharmacotherapy OT - Treatment OT - Weight loss COIS- Dr. Grilo declares no conflicts of interest. Dr. Grilo reports broader interests, which did not influence this research, including Honoraria for lectures and CME activities at universities and scientific conferences, and Royalties from Guilford Press and Taylor & Francis Publishers for academic books. EDAT- 2023/07/13 12:31 MHDA- 2023/09/07 06:42 PMCR- 2024/09/01 CRDT- 2023/07/13 11:13 PHST- 2023/06/09 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2024/09/01 00:00 [pmc-release] PHST- 2023/09/07 06:42 [medline] PHST- 2023/07/13 12:31 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/07/13 11:13 [entrez] AID - 10.1007/s13679-023-00517-0 [pii] AID - 10.1007/s13679-023-00517-0 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Curr Obes Rep. 2023 Sep;12(3):406-416. doi: 10.1007/s13679-023-00517-0. Epub 2023 Jul 13.