The comorbidity of depression and eating dysregulation processes in a diet-seeking obese population: a matter of gender specificity
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Researchers investigated depression in 1,184 obese patients who had registered on a residential weight loss program. The research revealed significant gender-specific patterns which raise questions about existing models of depression-obesity comorbidity. One gender difference was that obese women more frequently report bouts of eating dysregulation due to negative influences including sadness, exhaustion and loneliness. However, the men in the sample were more likely to reports bouts of eating dysregulation due to positive influences including happiness, socializing and the encouragement of others.
Publication Name: The International Journal of Eating Disorders
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0276-3478
Year: 1998
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Describing course of illness: Does our language matter?
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A group of investigators belonging to the MacArthur Foundation Network on the Psychobiology of Depression determined that the randomness with which investigators referred to key changes in clinical status of individual with depression had led to considerable confusion in literature. However, the American College of neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) has formed a task force to take a new look at the definitions based on the published literature since that original article.
Publication Name: The International Journal of Eating Disorders
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0276-3478
Year: 2005
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The augmented platelet intracellular calcium response to serotonin in anorexia nervosa but not bulimia may be due to subsyndromal depression
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The levels of serotonin- and basal-stimulated intracellular calcium in anorexia and bulimia nervosa patients were measured and studied using the Fura 2 method and Hamilton Depression Scale. Results show that anorexics have greater serotonin-mediated mobilization of intracellular calcium than bulimics. Results also reveal that anorexics suffering from high levels of depression have an augmented intracellular response to serotonin.
Publication Name: The International Journal of Eating Disorders
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0276-3478
Year: 1997
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