Word: nervosa
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...cognitive treatment for their depression had a 67 percent recovery rate, as opposed to a 48 percent recovery rate for those who received none. Numerous studies have examined the treatments for anorexia and eating disorders, including one done in 2003, which suggested that those who received therapy for anorexia nervosa had significantly higher recovery rates than those...
...concludes that when anorexics choose to take their own lives, they tend to employ some of the most lethal methods available. Yet, in many ways, the new research conducted at the University of Vermont represents a landmark shift in how doctors understand suicidal tendencies in patients suffering from anorexia nervosa...
...study, which surveyed 9,282 adults over two years, concluded that the lifetime prevalence of binge eating outweighs that of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa combined. Binge eaters comprised 3.5 percent of the female sample and two percent of the male, while the incidence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa afflicted less than two percent of women and less than one percent...
...condition differs from bulimia nervosa in that individuals do not participate in common purging techniques such as vomiting or the use of laxative after the binge episode...
...Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa have both been identified to have some sort of genetic tie. Skeptics have often posited that binge eating disorder might solely be a non-specific pattern of eating, thus suggesting no real difference between the obese with binge eating disorder and those without...