Loss of accommodation amplitude during eating (prandial presbyopia) is a rare phenomenon that has been reported in only 1 patient who had had head trauma. We report 2 patients who had not had head trauma and whose accommodative amplitudes, measured by dynamic retinoscopy, became markedly diminished within 1 minute of starting a meal and did not recover for 55-60 minutes. Apart from this abnorma...

Two cases of Kleine-Levin Syndrome with illness duration of three and four months respectively are presented. Both cases in their adolescence presented with typical features of the syndrome-onset after high grade fever episodic course and spontaneous remission of each episode and normalcy in between the episodes Characteristic features of each episode in both cases were hypersomnia, eating exce...

Food neophobia is an eating disturbance defined as the fear of trying new foods. In its extreme, the disorder can lead to malnutrition, limited social functioning, and psycholo gical difficulties. Successful treatment of food neophobia in children has been reported, but if those children are not provided with treatment, it stands to reason that the disorder may follow them into adulthood. To da...

Aim. The purpose of the current research is to measure the level of aggression among females diagnosed with BED and individuals displaying no eating or mental disorders, and to make a comparative study of the aforementioned variable. Methods. The main research variables were measured using a psychometric method the Revised Psychological Inventory of Aggression Syndrome by Gaś (Polish: IPSA-II)....

BACKGROUND The present study was undertaken in order to determine whether a set of clinical features, which are not included in the DSM-IV or ICD-10 for Asperger Syndrome (AS), are associated with AS in particular or whether they are merely a familial trait that is not related to the diagnosis. METHODS Ten large families, a total of 138 persons, of whom 58 individuals fulfilled the diagnostic...

Background: Eating disorders are “a behavioral cognition characterized by severe and persistent disturbance in eating behaviors associated distressing thoughts emotions it's the most psychiatric where Undergraduate students highest among groups who suffer from high levels of stress have risk fatigue mental health problems, including disorders. Due to societal stigma lack awareness, it is plausi...

Research suggests that exposure to mass media depicting the thin-ideal body may be linked to body image disturbance in women. This meta-analysis examined experimental and correlational studies testing the links between media exposure to women's body dissatisfaction, internalization of the thin ideal, and eating behaviors and beliefs with a sample of 77 studies that yielded 141 effect sizes. The...

OBJECTIVE Although it is thought that eating disorders result from the interplay of personal and sociocultural factors, a comprehensive model of eating disorders remains to be established. The aim of this study was to determine the extent to which the childhood factors and deficit in visuoperceptual ability contribute to eating disorders. METHODS A total of 76 participants - 22 women with ano...

The aim of this study was to characterize the metabolic disturbance associated with the skeletal myopathy resulting from extreme weight loss in anorexia nervosa. Muscle function was examined in eight female patients with severe (40%) weight loss due to anorexia nervosa and histologically confirmed myopathy. A wide range of biochemical and hematologic investigations were carried out, including s...

BACKGROUND Women with bulimia nervosa (BN) have disturbances of mood and behavior and alterations of monoamine activity when they are bingeing and purging. It is not known whether these alterations are secondary to pathological eating behavior or traits that could contribute to the pathogenesis of BN. METHODS To avoid the confounding effects of pathological eating behavior, we studied 30 wome...