The debate about the psychopathological nature of body dysmorphia and delusion-like thought in anorexia nervosa is still open. The intensity and the stability of the misperception of body shape and of the thought distortions related to weight gains which are present in many subjects affected with anorexia nervosa supports a parallelism between these symptoms and the psychotic symptoms which are...

In anorexia nervosa, problems with social relationships contribute to illness, and improvements in social support are associated with recovery. Using the multiround trust game and 3T MRI, we compare neural responses in a social relationship in three groups of women: women with anorexia nervosa, women in long-term weight recovery from anorexia nervosa, and healthy comparison women. Surrogate mar...

Although eating disorders can occur in teenagers and young children, the risk of developing disease increases during college years. About 95% between age 12 25 Examples include anorexia nervosa, bulimia binge disorder. Anorexia nervosa occurs people who eat a lot food purge or deny themselves at all. The aim purging after is to eliminate fear gaining weight digesting unwanted foods. However, pr...

Abstract Anorexia nervosa is a persistent and often difficult to treat eating disorder with significant physical mental health consequences. While it known that the associated alterations in brain functional connectivity during phase of acute underweight, effect weight normalization on remains unclear. This talk focuses recovery intrinsic severe anorexia nervosa, presenting data from longitudin...

OBJECTIVE This paper examines the prevalence of disordered eating in a female Australian twin population aged between 28 and 90 years in 1993. METHOD In two waves of data collection, the eating behaviour of 3869 female twins was first assessed in 1988-1989 by self-report questionnaire and then in 1992-1993 with a telephone interview, using the Semi-Structured Assessment for the Genetics of Al...

BACKGROUND Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that is often preceded by excessive physical activity. As such, exercise is not often prescribed in the clinical management of individuals with anorexia nervosa. OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of supervised exercise training in patients with anorexia nervosa. DATA SOURCES Five databases were searched from their inception to Week 14 of 2011...

INTRODUCTION Anorexia nervosa has long been the subject of medical and psychiatric debate, yet it is only relatively recently that English law has been called upon to grapple with the complexity of this condition. It was not until the early 1990s that we saw English law’s involvement with anorexia nervosa and questions as to the legitimate powers of the medical profession regarding involuntary ...

A young man with a long history of obsessional traits and food fads presented with anorexia, vomiting and marked weight loss. He showed little concern for his physical state and his vomiting was frequently witnessed as self-induced. A diagnosis of anorexia nervosa was made and he took his own discharge from hospital. He was readmitted one month later, severely cachectic and with biochemical abn...

We report the case of a 10-year-old girl with a mature teratoma in the hypothalamic region. The patient presented a 2-month history of anorexia, psychic disturbances and a 37% loss of body weight. These symptoms had led initially to a diagnosis of major depression and atypical anorexia nervosa. She also presented some signs and symptoms of diencephalic syndrome. This case illustrates the import...