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Section edited by Secondo Fassino
This section is dedicated to all types of eating disorders. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, eating disorders not otherwise specified and binge eating disorder, obesity, psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, intensive treatments (hospitalization and partial hospitalization), family therapies, neuroimaging, genetics, neuropsychology, nutrition and psychiatry, nutrition and personality disorders, nutrition and the brain, neuroendocrinology, metabolic alterations in eating disorders.
Research article
Family-based treatments are first-line treatments for adolescents with restrictive eating disorders (ED) but have to be improved since outcome is poor for some. We have investigated the one-year outcome of a f...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:333
Published on: 15 September 2017
Research article
Previous prevention programs in the school context have not addressed both genders, have been time-consuming, or have had deficits in the evaluation method. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the imp...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:293
Published on: 11 August 2017
Research article
Anorexia nervosa (AN) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) form a relatively common comorbidity, with poorer illness outcomes and poorer responses to treatments for AN compared to individuals without ASD. Howeve...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:292
Published on: 10 August 2017
Research article
The purpose of the study was to evaluate in a sample of insulin-treated diabetic patients, with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, the psychometric characteristics of the Italian version of the DEPS-R scale, a diabete...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:262
Published on: 19 July 2017
Research article
The Eating Beliefs Questionnaire (EBQ) is a 27-item self-report measure that assesses positive and negative beliefs about binge eating. It has been validated and its factor structure explored in a non-clinical...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:237
Published on: 3 July 2017
Study protocol
Sufferers from bulimia nervosa (BN) and binge eating disorder (BED) underestimate the severity risk of their illness and, therefore, postpone seeking professional help for years. Moreover, less than one in fiv...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:180
Published on: 12 May 2017
Research article
Establishing the sequence in which risk factors for eating disorders (ED) emerge would enable more effective ED prevention. Thus, in our study we investigated reciprocal and indirect associations between three...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:154
Published on: 28 April 2017
Research article
To examine the differences of associated characteristics and prescription drug use between co-occurring unipolar and bipolar disorders in patients with eating disorders (EDs).
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:81
Published on: 27 February 2017
Research article
Orthorexia nervosa (ON) is defined as pathological healthful eating. The aim of this study was to investigate whether there is any difference in orthorexic behaviours between clinical and non-clinical groups, ...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:75
Published on: 21 February 2017
Research article
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 tre...
BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:19
Published on: 17 January 2017
Research article
Considerable progress has been made in recent years in developing effective treatments for child and adolescent anorexia nervosa, with a general consensus in the field that eating disorders focussed family the...
BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:422
Published on: 24 November 2016
Research article
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe mental illness, with an unknown etiology. Magnetic resonance imaging studies show reduced brain volumes and cortical thickness in patients compared to healthy controls. Howeve...
BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:404
Published on: 16 November 2016
Research article
Emerging evidence suggests that changes in quality of life (QoL) predicts later changes in eating disorder (ED) symptoms. The objective of this study was to explore individual sufferers’ perspectives on the in...
BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:328
Published on: 11 October 2016
Study protocol
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a debilitating psychiatric disorder associated with a wide array of negative health complications and psychiatric comorbidity. Existing evidence for AN treatment in adults is weak, and...
BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:342
Published on: 5 October 2016
Research article
Patients with severe Anorexia Nervosa (AN) whose condition is life-threatening or who are not receiving adequate ambulatory care are hospitalized. However, 40 % of these patients leave the hospital prematurely...
BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:339
Published on: 30 September 2016
Research article
The current study aimed to evaluate group Cognitive remediation therapy (CRT) inpatients with Anorexia Nervosa (AN). We aimed to examine the treatment response of group CRT in AN patients with high or low leve...
BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:334
Published on: 29 September 2016
Research article
Relapse is common among recovered anorexia nervosa (AN) patients. Studies on relapse prevention with an average follow-up period of 18 months found relapse rates between 35 and 41 %. In leading guidelines ther...
BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:316
Published on: 8 September 2016
Research article
No specific psychotherapy for adult anorexia nervosa (AN) has shown superior effect. Maintenance factors in AN (over-evaluation of control over eating, weight and shape) were addressed via Acceptance and Commi...
BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:272
Published on: 29 July 2016
Research article
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a difficult to treat disorder characterized by ambivalence towards recovery and high mortality. Eating symptomatology has a sort of adaptive function for those who suffer from AN but n...
BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:190
Published on: 7 June 2016
Research article
We linked extensive longitudinal data from the Swedish national eating disorders quality registers and patient registers to explore clinical characteristics at diagnosis, diagnostic flux, psychiatric comorbidi...
BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:163
Published on: 26 May 2016
