New Treatment Perspectives in Eating Disorders: the Efficacy of Non-invasive Brain-directed Treatment

The study design is randomized stratified, double blind, add-on, placebo-controlled. A group of children and adolescents with AN will be selected and randomly assigned to two different conditions: treatment "as usual" plus experimental treatment (active tDCS); treatment "as usual" plus placebo treatment (sham tDCS). Similarly, a group of children and adolescents with Over-weight/Obesity (OW/OB) and BED will be selected and assigned with randomized stratified sampling to the following conditions: treatment "as usual" plus experimental treatment (active tDCS); treatment "as usual" plus placebo treatment (sham tDCS). In this project, the investigators will work to understand whether a brain-based treatment, with the use of tDCS, can improve the outcome of patients with eating disorders. The investigators will test whether tDCS treatment produces improvements in under-eating and over-eating diseases, such us AN and OW/OB with BED and food craving. Our overarching goal is to provide a scientific foundation for devising new rehabilitation strategies in ED.