Cerebellar atrophy in a patient with anorexia nervosa

Article Abstract:

A case study of a 30-year-old woman who developed cerebellar atrophy after the severe deterioration of cardiac and respiratory functions resulting from undernutrition is reported. The exact relationship between eating disorders and cerebellar atrophy are unclear but there is a possibility that the latter may be induced by life-threatening undernutrition.

Risk factors, Atrophy

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Core beliefs and the presence or absence of eating disorder symptoms and depressive symptoms in adolescent girls

Article Abstract:

Core beliefs specific to eating disorder and depressive symptoms were investigated in four groups of adolescent girls well matched on these symptoms. Results indicated that one-way analyses of variance found that both measures distinguished a 'healthy' group and a group high on depressed symptoms, but not one high on eating disorder symptoms.

Psychological aspects, Teenage girls

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Time course of symptom remission in eating disorders

Article Abstract:

A study done on 65 patients with eating disorders is described, who are undergoing psychotherapy, to examine whether time and remission vary in their symptoms. It is found that there is a common pattern between time and remission in the symptoms suffered by these patients.

Psychotherapy patients

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