Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders is a study note in Eating and Somatic Disorders.

GENERAL

Disorders

Risk factors (to binging and purging)

Compensatory Behaviors

Table: eating disorder core feature comparison

A) ANOREXIA NERVOSA

Symptoms

(DSM - Criteria)

(DSM - Specifiers)

(Table: severity by BMI)

(Beyond DSM)

Epidemiology

Medical complications

See “assessment & treatment”

Neurological implications

Prognosis

(Table: Prognostic factors)

B) BULIMIA NERVOSA

(Table: DSM – BN Severity Specifiers)

C) ASSESSMENT & TREATMENT (AN & BN)

Interview

Table: Medical assessment of eating disorders

Stabilization

(Indications for admission [APA + ACAP guidelines])

(Indications for involuntary treatment)

(Re-feeding syndrome (AN))

(Weight restoration (AN))

(Nutritional Rehabilitation (BN))

Psychotherapy (AN & BN)

Maudsley Family Therapy

CBT - 1st line for adults in AN

IPT (for BN only)

DBT (emerging evidence)

Medications

(For Anorexia Nervosa…)

(For Bulimia Nervosa…)

C) BINGE-EATING DISORDER

(DSM – Criteria)

(DSM – Specifiers)

Comorbidity

Treatment

C) OTHER EATING DISORDERS

Pica

(Epidemiology)

(Risk factors)

(Comorbidities)

(Treatment)

Rumination disorder

(Prognosis)

(Etiology)