1. Overarching concepts for feeding, eating and weight disorders
Developmental Aspects
2. Body weight and body composition in childhood and adolescence: Diagnostic issues and current controversies
3. Appetite regulation
4. Emergence of body perception and body image
Symptomatology: Eating Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood
5. ARFID and other disorders of early childhood
6. Loss of control of eating in children
Adolescent Eating Disorders
7. Definition, symptomatology and comorbidity
8. Adolescent obesity and comorbidity
Epidemiology
9. International comparison of the prevalence rates of childhood and adolescent eating and weight disorders (relationship between the obesity epidemic and trends for eating disorders)
10. Prevalence and tracking of different weight categories including obesity
Etiology and Pathophysiology
11. Genetics of eating and weight disorders
12. Influence of Hormones, Female Sex
13. Endocrine mechanisms in obesity
14. Microbiome and inflammation in eating disorders
15. Eating disordered mothers and their children: intergenerational effects
16. Food/eating addiction
17. Stigmatization associated with obesity
Treatment
18. Cognitive behavioural therapy in adolescent eating disorders
19. Family-based therapies
20. Inpatient and day patient treatments of eating disordered patients
21. Early intervention in ED
22. Pharmacotherapy of eating and weight disorders