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The animal cachexia score (ACASCO)
Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, 2019 Background None of the published studies involving cancer cachexia experimental models have included a measure of the severity of the syndrome like the scoring system previously developed for human subjects.
Angelica Betancourt +7 more
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Rewriting Alice : Victorian women's responses to Lewis Carroll's Alice's adventures in Wonderland [PDF]
, 2011 Within a few years of Lewis Carroll‟s publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), other authors tried to replicate aspects of the Alice books. In fact, Carroll states that he even started a collection of “„books of the Alice type‟” (quoted in
Murray, Elizabeth A.
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‘Little Lena’s a Big Girl Now’: Lena Zavaroni and the Anorexic Star [PDF]
, 2015 Lena Zavaroni became famous as a child star on the British TV talent show Opportunity Knocks in 1974, suffered from anorexia from age 13, and subsequently died from complications associated with the problem in 1999, age 35.
Holmes, Su
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International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective While compulsory treatment is shown to be potentially traumatic for patients, its impact on clinicians has been insufficiently studied. This study aimed to examine clinicians' experiences with providing compulsory nasogastric tube feeding for youth with severe anorexia nervosa, with particular attention to identifying factors ...
T. M. Offringa +6 more
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Plasma Ghrelin Levels Are Associated with Anorexia but Not Cachexia in Patients with NSCLC [PDF]
, 2017 Background and Aims: The ghrelin receptor is one of the new therapeutic targets in the cancer anorexia-cachexia syndrome. Previous studies revealed that plasma ghrelin levels were high in patients with anorexia nervosa and low in obese subjects.
Annemarie Becker +5 more
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International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is a feeding and eating disorder characterized by avoidant/restrictive eating behaviors that lead to medical and/or functional impairments. While ARFID is increasingly recognized within pediatric populations and specialist clinics, data on its prevalence and burden within the adult
Grace Brownlow +4 more
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Jornal Brasileiro de Psiquiatria, 2009 OBJECTIVE: To characterize eating habits and possible risk factors associated with eating disorders among psychology students, a segment at risk for eating disorders. METHOD: This is a cross-sectional study.
Maria Lúcia Magalhães Bosi +2 more
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An Embodied question answering system for use in the treatment of eating disorders [PDF]
, 2008 This paper presents work in progress on implementing an embodied question answering system, Dr. Cecilia, in the form of a virtual caregiver, for use in the treatment of eating disorders.
Bergh, Cecilia +5 more
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International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe psychiatric disorder with structural brain alterations; however, the roles of cortical surface area (CSA) and cortical thickness (CTh) during adolescence remain unclear. Building on frequent reports of gray matter reductions in the cingulate cortex and precuneus, this study assesses CSA, CTh, and ...
Irina Jarvers +11 more
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