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Neurobiology of Eating Disorders: Clinical Implications
Eating disorder behaviors can range from dangerous caloric restriction to eating that feels out of control—often combined with unhealthy weight control behaviors, such as self-induced vomiting or laxative abuse. Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder are the most prevalent eating disorders. Diagnostically, anorexia nervosa requires low body weight, intense fear of or behav...
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The first descriptions of AN date back to the 17th century, when Morton determined that the origin of this disorder, in contrast to other states of malnutrition, was a disturbance of the nervous system accompanied by sadness and pre-occupation. In the 19th century, it was described as an individual psychopathological picture similar to the one observed today, though it was believed to be a mood...
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Eating disorders are widely thought of as modern problems arising as a consequence of a Western culture that values, especially for women, being thin. Yet history suggests that these disorders are not a new phenomenon — there have been reports of young women restricting their food intake as early as the Middle Ages (the so-called Fasting Saints). Anorexia nervosa (described below) has also been...
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In the past few years several instruments have been designed for the assessment of symptoms and behaviours presented by patients with eating disorders. Self-report questionnaires and semistructured interviews (see chapter 2, “Diagnosis”) are the two main assessment instruments. There are also other measures related to preoccupation with body image, dietary consumption, amongst others, as well m...
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In order to implement primary prevention measures there are two strategies, which often complement each other: the population strategy and the high-risk strategy. The population strategy is general and is aimed at the entire population with the objective of reducing its average risk. The high-risk strategy is individual and is aimed at those people who most need it, meaning the most vulnerable ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0002-9165,1938-3207
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/80.6.1671