Anorexia nervosa binge eating

Characteristic Anorexia Nervosa Bulimia Nervosa Binge-Eating Disorder... 

Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder... 

Anorexia nervosa (AN) and Binge-eating disorder (BED) 1. Increased blood levels of AEA in patients with AN and BED may participate in reward aspects of aberrant eating behaviours 1. None tested... 

Millions of people in the United States are affected by eating disorders. More than 90% of those afflicted are adolescents or young adult women. Although all eating disorders share some common manifestations, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating each have distinctive symptoms and risks. 

Although these disorders are more common in adolescent girls or young women, 5% to 15% of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa and approximately 40% of binge-eating disorders occur in boys and men (498). 

Although bulimia nervosa was originally described as a variant of anorexia nervosa, the two conditions are classified separately in DSM IV. The distinction between anorexia nervosa of the binge-eating/purging type and bulimia nervosa is based almost exclusively on the patient s body... 

Table 15.6 Agents for Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa (AN), Bnlimia Nervosa (BN), and Binge Eating (BE)... 

AN anorexia nervosa BE binge eating BMI body mass index BN bulimia nervosa DA dopamine ... 

Diagnosis Anorexia nervosa. This is differentiated from bulimia because she denies binge eating with associated guilty feehngs. 

Eating disorder—either self-starvation (anorexia nervosa) or binge eating and vomiting (bulimia), or a combination of the two. 

Bulimarexia (from the Greek words for ox and hunger), an eating disorder, is anorexia s opposite. Bulimarexia is characterized by eating binges, whereas anorexia nervosa is distinguished by self-inflicted voluntary starvation. 

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