Neuropsychology of Eating Disorders

Neuropsychology of Eating Disorders

This is a review of the current state of neuropsychological studies focused on eating disorders.

• Title: Neuropsychology of eating disorders: 1995–2012
• Authors: Ignacio Jáuregui-Lobera
• Date: 2013
• Source: Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2013; 9: 415–430. doi:  10.2147/NDT.S42714

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Neuropsychology of eating disorders

Eating Disorder Inventory for Children

Eating Disorder Inventory for Children

The study examined longitudinally the role of characteristics measured by the EDI-C.  The goal was to find predictors of risk and protective factors in the development of disordered eating.

• Title: Characteristics measured by the Eating Disorder Inventory for children at risk and protective factors for disordered eating in adolescent girls
• Authors: Sanna Aila Gustafsson, Birgitta Edlund, Lars Kjellin, and Claes Norring
• Date: 2010
• Source: Int J Womens Health. 2010; 2: 375–379. doi:  10.2147/IJWH.S12349

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Eating Disorder Inventory for Children

Body Image Quality of Life in Eating Disorders

Body Image Quality of Life in Eating Disorders

The objective was to examine how body image affects quality of life in 3 clinical or non-clinical samples. One of the researcher`s hypothesis was that ED patients would show the worst body image quality of life.

• Title: Body image quality of life in eating disorders
• Authors: Ignacio Jáuregui Lobera and Patricia Bolaños Ríos
• Date: 2011
• Source: Patient Prefer Adherence. 2011; 5: 109–116. doi:  10.2147/PPA.S17452

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Body image quality of life in eating disorders

CBT for Weight Loss

CBT for Weight Loss

This study explores whether individual, 8-session cognitive-behavioral therapy can promote weight loss in midlife women.

• Title: Brief cognitive-behavioral therapy for weight loss in midlife women: a controlled study with follow-up
• Authors: Filipa Pimenta, Isabel Leal, João Maroco, and Catarina Ramos
• Date: 2012
• Source: Int J Womens Health. 2012; 4: 559–567. doi:  10.2147/IJWH.S35246

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Anorexia nervosa Treatment Expectations

Anorexia nervosa Treatment Expectations

The goal of this study was to examine the expectations of potential anorexic patients seeking treatment at a specialized eating-disorder unit.

• Title: Anorexia nervosa: treatment expectations – a qualitative study
• Authors: Gunilla Paulson-Karlsson and Lauri Nevonen
• Date: 2012
• Source: J Multidiscip Healthc. 2012; 5: 169–177. doi:  10.2147/JMDH.S33658

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Anorexia nervosa Treatment Expectations

Atypical eating disorders: a review

Atypical eating disorders: a review

Atypical eating disorders do not fulfill the diagnostic criteria for typical anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. Articles published between 1980 and 2010 were part of this review.

• Title: Atypical eating disorders: a review
• Authors: Garcia FD, Délavenne H, Déchelotte P
• Date: 2011
• Source: Nutrition and Dietary Supplements 2011:3 67–75, Dove Medical Press.

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Anorexia & Bulimia Nervosa: Treatment

Anorexia & Bulimia Nervosa: Treatment

Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are characterized by physically and/or psychologically harmful eating patterns.

• Title: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulima Nervosa Critical Analysis of It's Treatment: Implications and Interventions
• Authors: Flourish Itulua-Abumere
• Date: 2013
• Source: The Open Access Journal of Science and Technology Vol. 1 (2013), Article ID 100007, 5 pages  doi:10.11131/2013/100007

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Anorexia nervosa and Cushing’s Syndrome

Anorexia nervosa and Cushing’s Syndrome

A case report of a patient diagnosed with anorexia nervosa who also developed Cushing’s syndrome.

• Title: Two diagnoses become one? Rare case report of anorexia nervosa and Cushing’s syndrome
• Authors: Nadia Sawicka, Maria Gryczynska, Jerzy Sowinski, Monika Tamborska-Zedlewska, and Marek Ruchala
• Date: 2013
• Source: Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2013; 9: 431–435. doi:  10.2147/NDT.S40398

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Anorexia Nervosa as a Subjectivation Attempt

Anorexia Nervosa as a Subjectivation Attempt

The authors think of the anorexic symptom more as a way of setting up the subjectivation process than as a self-destructive behavior.

• Title: Case Report - Melancholy and separation in prepuberty: the choice of anorexia nervosa as a subjectivation attempt
• Authors: Manon Rivière and Marion Haza
• Date: 2014
• Source: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2014, 8:25  doi:10.1186/1753-2000-8-25

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