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The Irrational Food Beliefs Scale: Validation of the Italian Version in Patients with Obesity
The Irrational Food Beliefs Scale (IFBS) is a self-report questionnaire comprising 57 items, 41 of which in the irrational food beliefs subscale, assessing cognitive distortions and inappropriate attitudes and...
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Open AccessEfficacy and tolerability of a specific blend of amino acids in patients with anorexia nervosa treated in a hospital setting: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Specific blends of essential amino acids (EAA) containing a high percentage of branched-chain amino acids preserves mitochondrial metabolism and higher physical resistance in elderly mice, increasing their sur...
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McArdle disease in a patient with anorexia nervosa: a case report
McArdle disease is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder caused by a deficiency of the glycogen phosphorylase (myophosphorylase) enzyme, which muscles need to break down glycogen into glucose for energy. Sym...
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The clinical perfectionism questionnaire: psychometric properties of the Italian version in patients with eating disorders
Problematic perfectionism has been traditionally conceptualized as a multidimensional construct, and specific instruments have been developed to capture its various dimensions. However, the Clinical Perfection...
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What do Italian healthcare professionals think about orthorexia nervosa? Results from a multicenter survey
Orthorexia nervosa (ON) is an obsession for healthy and proper nutrition. Diagnostic criteria for ON are lacking and the psychopathology of ON is still a matter of debate in the clinical and scientific communi...
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Validity and reliability of the Dietary Rules Inventory (DRI)
Dietary rules are common in patients with eating disorders, and according to transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural theory for eating disorders, represent a key behaviour maintaining eating-disorder psychopatho...
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Open AccessEnhanced cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT-E) for severe and extreme anorexia nervosa in an outpatient eating disorder unit at a public hospital: a quality-assessment study
The aim of this quality-assessment study was to determine the outcome of patients with severe and extreme anorexia nervosa (AN) in a real-world outpatient setting.
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Metabolomics signatures of acutely ill and short-term weight recovered women with anorexia nervosa
Although metabolomics studies are recently spreading and have allowed the characterization of putative biomarkers in many diseases, they are relatively scanty in anorexia nervosa (AN). In this explorative stud...
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Attachment representations and alexithymia in community adolescents with binge-eating attitudes
The aims of the current study were: (a) to compare community adolescent groups with and without binge eating (BE) on attachment representations and alexithymia, using an age-adapted interview to assess attachm...
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Eating Disorders: An Overview
The current DSM-5 classification of eating disorders suggests that there are several distinctive eating disorders, each requiring a specific treatment. However, numerous studies and clinical observations sugge...
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Physical Complications
Most of the physical ailments encountered in patients with eating disorders are secondary to their weight loss and adoption of extreme weight-control behaviours. The majority of these physical complications re...
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Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa
This final chapter is dedicated to a subgroup of patients with anorexia nervosa which many consider to be “complex cases” on account of the eating disorder persisting for several years, often associated with s...
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Eating Disorder Psychopathology and Its Consequences
Eating disorders are characterized by a specific core psychopathology, namely the overvaluation of shape, weight, eating and their control. Most of the specific features of eating disorders derive directly or ...
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General Strategies for the Management of Comorbidity in Eating Disorders
Comorbidity is a conceptually, clinically and psychometrically complex issue. In the field of mental illness, where no specific biomarkers have been found to date, it is debatable whether comorbidities are dis...
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Coexisting Mental Disorders
Coexisting mental disorders are commonly diagnosed in patients with eating disorders. The most frequent are clinical depression, anxiety disorders and substance use disorders. However, assessment of psychiatri...
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Coexisting General Medical Diseases
Eating disorders may coexist with general medical diseases. In such cases, the therapist should assess the following: (i) possible interactions between the eating disorder and the general medical disease, (ii)...
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Enhanced Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Eating Disorders
According to the current method of classifying mental disorders (the DSM-5), anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and other eating disorders are considered to be distinct clinical disorder...
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Coexisting Psychological Problems
A subgroup of patients with eating disorders has additional psychological problems that are pronounced, contribute to the maintenance of eating disorder psychopathology and interfere with the treatment. The mo...
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Psychometric proprieties of the Italian version of the questionnaire on eating and weight patterns (QEWP-5) and its accuracy in screening for binge-eating disorder in patients seeking treatment for obesity
The aim of the current study was to assess the psychometric proprieties of the Italian version of the latest edition of the Questionnaire of Eating and Weight Patterns (QEWP-5), evaluating its accuracy in scre...
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Controlling binge eating and weight: a treatment for binge eating disorder worth researching?
The majority of those who seek treatment for binge eating disorder also have accompanying obesity or overweight. The best available psychological treatments for binge eating disorder produce good and lasting o...
