A brain imaging study at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory reveals a subtle difference between ordinary obese subjects and those who compulsively overeat, or binge: In binge eaters, but not ordinary obese subjects, the mere sight or smell of favorite foods triggers a spike in dopamine – a brain chemical linked […]
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Exploration Of Eating Disorder Diagnoses For DSM-V
The International Journal of Eating Disorders presented a special issue in 2009, exploring some controversies in the diagnosis of eating disorders, which have implications for how they may appear with the publication of the American Psychiatric and Statistical Manual of Diagnoses of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM V). The DSM V is due out in […]
DSM-5 Proposed Revisions Will Include Binge Eating Disorder And Revisions To Other Eating Disorders Criteria
The American Psychiatric Association’s proposed diagnostic criteria for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) will include new recognition of binge eating disorder and minor changes in the criteria for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Other recommended changes acknowledge that some eating disorders identified as beginning in infancy and […]
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