An norexia nervosa is a disorder in which a patient deliberately loses weight and fails to maintain a inimal normal weight for his age and height. Bulimia nervosa is a disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of binge eating, often followed by purging of the food by vomiting. Both anorexia nervosa and bulimia are associated with pervasive endocrine dysfunction, including amenorrhea, oligome...

Although eating disorders in children and adolescents remain a serious cause of morbidity and mortality, the evidence base for effective interventions is surprisingly weak. The adult literature is growing steadily, but this is mainly with regard to psychological therapies for bulimia nervosa and to some extent in the field of pharmacotherapy. This review summarises the recent research literatur...

Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder remain challenging disorders for the practicing psychiatrist. While psychopharmacological agents play an important role in the overall treatment of eating disorders, current empirical evidence does not support their sole use. A recipe consisting of evidence-based psychopharmacological agents together with evidence-based psychotherapeut...

We examine the science and evidence supporting cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for the treatment of bulimia nervosa and other eating disorders. Recent trials focusing on the abnormal cognitive and emotional aspects of bulimia have reported a remission rate of about 45%, and a relapse rate of about 30% within one year. However, an early CBT trial that emphasized the normalization of eating beha...

The problem of eating disorders currently holds a special place in clinical practice. Bulimia nervosa is one the main forms disorders, characterized by difficulty its treatment and long, recurrent course. Eating are common patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D), especially adolescent girls. In this article, we present case patient T1D bulimia nervosa, which developed before manifestation ...

Six hundred and twenty women who were currently practising self-induced vomiting to control their weight were identified with the help of a women's magazine. Nineteen women (3.1%) fulfilled diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa. Of the remainder, 499 (83.0%) fulfilled diagnostic criteria for bulimia nervosa, a recently described eating disorder. Of these, 56.1% practised self-induced vomitin...

Cognitive models of psychopathology that emphasize the role of cognitive biases in the etiology and maintenance of problems such as anxiety disorders have also been applied to anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) (Beck & Clark, 1997; Eysenck, 1992, 1997; Shafran et al., 2007). Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) has been identified as a cognitive bias that may play a large role in these d...

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...