BACKGROUND Very little is known about the prevalence of ADHD symptoms in Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder and even less in other eating disorders. This knowledge gap is of clinical importance since stimulant treatment is proven effective in Binge Eating Disorder and discussed as a treatment possibility for Bulimia Nervosa. The objective of this study was to explore the prevalence and t...

T he DSM-III-R category of bulimia nervosa describes an eating disorder characterized by binge-eating episodes as well as other abnormal eating-related behaviors. The choice of the term bulimia to label this syndrome in the DSM-HI was in a sense unfortunate, since the term bulimia is also used simply to indicate binge eating episodes. However, this syndrome encompasses far more than binge eatin...

OBJECTIVE Epidemiological studies of eating disorders in the United States have focused on white women and girls, and the prevalence of eating disorders in ethnic minority groups is unknown. This study examined the prevalence of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder in a geographically and economically diverse community sample of young white and black women who previously...

OBJECTIVES This chapter reviews brain imaging findings in anorexia and bulimia nervosa which characterize brain circuitry that may contribute to the pathophysiology of eating disorders (EDs). SUMMARY OF RECENT FINDINGS Recent imaging studies provide evidence of disturbed gustatory processing in EDs which involve the anterior insula as well as striatal regions. These results raise the possibil...