Could dopamine agonists aid in drug development for anorexia nervosa? [PDF]
, 2014 Anorexia nervosa is a severe psychiatric disorder most commonly starting during the teenage-years and associated with food refusal and low body weight. Typically there is a loss of menses, intense fear of gaining weight, and an often delusional quality ...
Frank, Guido KW
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Altered structural and effective connectivity in anorexia and bulimia nervosa in circuits that regulate energy and reward homeostasis. [PDF]
, 2016 Anorexia and bulimia nervosa are severe eating disorders that share many behaviors. Structural and functional brain circuits could provide biological links that those disorders have in common.
Frank, GKW +3 more
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Complement C3 serum levels in anorexia nervosa: a potential biomarker for the severity of disease? [PDF]
, 2011 BackgroundAnorexia nervosa carries the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder. Even the most critically ill anorexic patients may present with normal 'standard' laboratory values, underscoring the need for a new sensitive biomarker.
Flierl, Michael A +5 more
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Uncovering anorexia nervosa in a biofeedback clinic for bowel dysfunction [PDF]
, 2012 Biofeedback is a conservative treatment based on behavioural techniques, which can be used in the management of bowel dysfunction. This article reports the results of a retrospective review of the clinical notes of 87 female patients attending a ...
Chelvanayagam, Sonya +3 more
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Refeeding Hypophosphatemia in Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa: A Systematic Review [PDF]
, 2013 The rate of adolescents presenting with anorexia nervosa (AN) is increasing. Medically unstable adolescents are admitted to the hospital for nutrition restoration. A lack of global consensus on appropriate refeeding practices of malnourished patients has
Nicholls, D, O'Connor, G
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Activity Based Anorexia as an Animal Model for Anorexia Nervosa–A Systematic Review [PDF]
, 2019 Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe eating disorder affecting around 1 per 100 persons. However, the knowledge about its underlying pathophysiology is limited.
Schalla, Martha A., Stengel, Andreas
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Medical use of cannabis: italian and european legislation [PDF]
, 2018 This review illustrates some brief considerations of the medical use of cannabis recently issued in Italy. History and uses of cannabis throughout centuries and different countries are illustrated together with a description of botany and active ...
Di Luca, A. +3 more
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Feeling good about being hungry: food-related thoughts in eating disorder [PDF]
, 2012 Objectives: This study explores the relationships to food and hunger in women living with anorexic type eating difficulties and asks how imagery-based elaborations of food and eating thoughts are involved in their eating restraint, and recovery.
American Psychiatric Association +10 more
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Prominent autistic traits and subthreshold bipolar/mixed features of depression in severe anorexia nervosa [PDF]
, 2019 Autistic traits are associated with a burdensome clinical presentation of anorexia nervosa (AN), as is AN with concurrent depression. The aim of the present study was to explore the intertwined association between complex psychopathology combining ...
Anastasia, Annalisa +6 more
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