SUMMARY INTRODUCTION: The interplay between eating disorders and psychosis is a challenging field to which little attention has been paid. Its study raises conceptual and methodological questions in both areas, making the diagnosis and management of patients difficult. Such questions are addressed and i...
ABSTRACT Objective This study aimed to determine whether physical fitness is related to nutritional status in a sample of female adolescents with anorexia nervosa, to contrast the nourished and undernourished patients, and to compare the physical fitness in these patients with normative data of healthy ...
Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric disorder characterized by distortions of body size, weight,
and shape perception, as well as by food restriction and/or binge and purging behaviors. It
mostly affects young women and causes severe negative impacts on their physical,
psychological, and social health. Rece...
ABSTRACT Background There are some studies in the literature about the feeding behavior and masticatory process in patients with feeding disorders; however, it is not very well known if there are alterations in oral-pharyngeal swallowing dynamics in subjects with anorexia nervosa. Objective To evaluate...
Una de las patologías de este siglo y que se presenta con mayor frecuencia en la adolescencia, especialmente en la mujer es la anorexia nerviosa, así, se ha observado un aumento de consultas por esta enfermedad y cuadros afines en la década de los 80 lo que ha significado un reto para los clínicos es...
38 pacientes diagnosticados de acuerdo a los criterios del DSM IV como Anorexia Nerviosa o Bulimia Nerviosa fueron evaluados a través del inventario de Beck para depresividad y la escala de depresión del MMPI, para estimar la presencia de depresión. Fueron además consultados respecto de la presencia ...
