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Should amenorrhea be a diagnostic criterion for anorexia nervosa?
OBJECTIVE The removal of the amenorrhea criterion for anorexia nervosa (AN) is being considered for the fifth edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-V). This article presents and discusses the arguments for maintaining as well as those for removing the criterion. METHOD The psychological and biological literatures on the utility of amenorrhea as a distinguishing diagnostic crit...
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Animal studies indicate that gonadal hormones at puberty have an effect on the development of masculine and feminine traits. However, it is unknown whether similar processes occur in humans. We examined whether women with anorexia nervosa (AN), who often experience primary amenorrhea, exhibit attenuated feminization in their psychological characteristics in adulthood due to the decrease/absence...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Psychiatry
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1359-4184,1476-5578
DOI: 10.1038/sj.mp.4000298