Individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) engage in relentless restrictive eating and often
become severely emaciated. Because there are no proven treatments, AN has high rates of …

Individuals with anorexia nervosa have a relentless preoccupation with dieting and weight
loss that results in severe emaciation and sometimes death. It is controversial whether such …

It is the position of the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) that anorexia nervosa and
bulimia nervosa, along with their variants, are biologically based, serious mental illnesses (BBMI) …

Background: Anorexia nervosa is an often chronic disorder with high morbidity and mortality.
Many people relapse after weight restoration. This study was designed to determine …

Anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) are related disorders of unknown etiology
that most commonly begin during adolescence in women. AN and BN have unique and …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine the role of perfectionism as a
phenotypic trait in anorexia nervosa and its relevance across clinical subtypes of this illness. …

OBJECTIVE: A large and well-characterized sample of individuals with anorexia nervosa
and bulimia nervosa from the Price Foundation collaborative genetics study was used to …

Background We used contemporary family-epidemiological methods to examine patterns of
comorbidity and familial aggregation of psychiatric disorders for anorexia and bulimia …

OBJECTIVE: Lifetime rates of full and partial anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa were
determined in first-degree relatives of diagnostically pure proband groups and relatives of …

Although it is well accepted that most patients with anorexia nervosa are perfectionistic, little
work has been done in characterizing this behavior. Anorexics were assessed by two new …