Anorexia nervosa: current status and future directions

E Attia - Annual review of medicine, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a serious mental illness categorized by a failure to maintain a
minimally normal weight, a fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, and preoccupations about …

Treatment of anorexia nervosa: insights and obstacles

AS Guarda - Physiology & behavior, 2008 - Elsevier
Anorexia nervosa is a behavioral disorder characterized by ego-syntonic self-starvation,
denial of illness and ambivalence towards treatment. Treatment refusal and drop-out rates …

Recent research and personalized treatment of anorexia nervosa

C Kan, J Treasure - Psychiatric Clinics, 2019 - psych.theclinics.com
Anorexia nervosa is an illness with a high level of diversity because it includes physical and
psychological elements, both of which contribute to the extreme disability and high mortality …

Chronic anorexia nervosa: A Delphi study to explore practitioners' views

S Tierney, JRE Fox - International Journal of Eating Disorders, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: Anorexia nervosa (AN) can be an enduring condition. Increasing interest in the
treatment of long‐term cases has occurred over the recent years. This study explored …

A randomised controlled trial of three psychological treatments for anorexia nervosa

S Byrne, T Wade, P Hay, S Touyz, CG Fairburn… - Psychological …, 2017 - cambridge.org
BackgroundThere is a lack of evidence pointing to the efficacy of any specific psychotherapy
for adults with anorexia nervosa (AN). The aim of this study was to compare three …

Medical complications of anorexia nervosa and their treatments: an update on some critical aspects

C Brown, PS Mehler - Eating and Weight Disorders-Studies on Anorexia …, 2015 - Springer
Anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder. Many of the
deaths are attributable to medical complications which arise as the malnutrition and weight …

Treatment outcomes for anorexia nervosa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

SB Murray, DS Quintana, KL Loeb, S Griffiths… - Psychological …, 2019 - cambridge.org
BackgroundTo determine the impact of specialized treatments, relative to comparator
treatments, upon the weight and psychological symptoms of anorexia nervosa (AN) at end-of …

Effectiveness of exercise‐based interventions in patients with anorexia nervosa: A systematic review

Y Quiles Marcos, E Leon Zarceno, JA Lopez Lopez - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective This study aimed to conduct a systematic review of research that has evaluated
the outcomes of exercise‐based interventions in anorexia nervosa (AN) patients. Method …

The dearth of psychological treatment studies for anorexia nervosa

D le Grange, J Lock - International Journal of Eating Disorders, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Anorexia nervosa (AN) was first described more than 130 years ago, yet few
psychological treatments have been formally studied. Our objective was to review the …

Four pathways to anorexia nervosa: Patients' perspective on the emergence of AN

KS Gulliksen, RHS Nordbø… - Clinical psychology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Studies show that patients' perception of their illness has a direct influence both
on their utilization of health services and their adherence to treatment plans. This may be …