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The past thirty years have seen dramatic changes in our approach to the eating disorders. These include marked improvements in the recognition and understanding of the disorders, and the reduction of the morbidity and mortality of anorexia and bulimia nervosa Bulimia nervosa itself, now the focus of so much attention, was described less than twenty years ago. While these gains, including those in...
Although eating disorders are serious illnesses that affect adolescents and strongly involve their families, no study to date investigated the burden of these families Forty relatives of 24 patients with eating disorders were assessed on subjective and objective burden, overinvolvement, hypercriticism and psychiatric symptoms. The subjective burden reported by the key relatives of patients with Anorexia...
Epidemiological studies on eating disorders in southern Italy are practically non-existent. This study evaluated the eating attitudes and the prevalence of eating disorders in a sample of 795 students (588 females and 207 males) among 6 secondary schools from Lecce. A two-stage study was conducted: a first screening stage followed by a clinical inter view. 58.4% of girls and 19.7% of boys displayed...
A French adaptation of the Stroop colour-naming task was used to investigate selective processing of information related to eating and the body in 92 female subjects: 18 with restricting-type anorexia nervosa (RAs), 25 with binge-eating-type anorexia (BAs), 20 with bulim ia nervosa (BNs), and 29 controls (Cs). All participants were significantly slower in colour-naming words related to eating and...
The point prevalence of eating disorders was investigated in schoolgirls from lower socio-economic classes and a method of case detection was tested. A two-stage proce dure (self-report measures and interviews) was followed. All girls meeting at least one of the following three criteria were recruited as possible cases: EAT≥30, BMI<17.5, BMI<19 or >24 and EAT≥20. The Mann-Whitney’s two-tailed...
Early detection of subjects with a propensity to obesity might be of great help for setting up preventive intervention studies. In this study we tested whether the develop ment of obesity in Wistar rats, given ad libitum cafeteria foods, could be predicted by a low prolactin (PEL) response to 5-hydroxytryptophan (5HTP), as an index of low hypothalamic serotoninergic tonus. Basal and 5HTP-stimulated...
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