Anorexia nervosa: obsessive-compulsive disorder, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, or neither?

The association of anxiety disorders and obsessive compulsive personality disorder with anorexia nervosa: evidence from a family study with discussion of nosological and neurodevelopmental implications.

BACKGROUND To investigate the association of anorexia nervosa with anxiety disorders through use of a case-control family study design. METHOD Lifetime prevalence of anxiety disorders and obsessive compulsive personality disorder was determined among 574 first-degree relatives of 152 probands with anorexia nervosa and compared to rates observed among 647 first-degree relatives of 181 never-il...

A controlled family study of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa: psychiatric disorders in first-degree relatives and effects of proband comorbidity.

BACKGROUND We used contemporary family-epidemiological methods to examine patterns of comorbidity and familial aggregation of psychiatric disorders for anorexia and bulimia nervosa. METHODS Direct interviews and blind best-estimate diagnostic procedures were used with diagnostically "pure" groups of probands with eating disorders and a matched control group. Lifetime prevalence rates of eatin...

Anorexia Nervosa with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

We report the case of an adolescent female, previously nonobese, belonging to educated average socioeconomic Muslim family. She stopped taking food, developed a perception of distorted body image with occasional episodes of binge eating and forced vomiting. She became amenorrheic and emaciated with loss of secondary sexual characters. She satisfied the criteria for anorexia nervosa with obsessi...

Orthorexia nervosa – an eating disorder, obsessive- -compulsive disorder or disturbed eating habit?

The purpose of this article was to describe the phenomenon of a new disorder called orthorexia nervosa. This paper proposes a theoretical framework for the definitions, prevalence, diagnostic criteria, method and treatment of orthorexia. This disturbing behaviour concerns the pathologic obsession for healthy nutrition. In contrast to eating disorders, people with orthorexia are obsessed with fo...

Running Head: IMPLICATION OF PERSONALITY TRAITS IN TREATMENT OF ANOREXIA NERVOSA Shared Neurological and Psychological Traits of Anorexia Nervosa and Obsessive- Compulsive Personality Disorder: The Implications in Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa