OBJECTIVE To study the predictors of new eating disorders in an adolescent cohort. DESIGN Cohort study over 3 years with six waves. SUBJECTS Students, initially aged 14-15 years, from 44 secondary schools in the state of Victoria, Australia. OUTCOME MEASURES Weight (kg), height (cm), dieting (adolescent dieting scale), psychiatric morbidity (revised clinical interview schedule), and eatin...

CONTEXT Recent data suggest that purging disorder, a recently characterized form of eating disorder not otherwise specified, may be worthy of specific delineation in nosological schemes. However, more data are needed to determine how purging disorder differs from bulimia nervosa. OBJECTIVE To examine clinical features and subjective as well as objective physiological responses to a standardiz...

Menglei Li,1,2 Jia Li,3 Long-Qing Chen,4,5 Bing-Lin Gu,2,6 and Wenhui Duan1,2,6,* 1Department of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China 2Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China 3Institute of Advanced Materials, Graduate School a...

Zhen Li, Jianling Hou, Rongtao Zheng, Zhongwei Li, Jing Wen, Dianchang Liu, Ruyuan Liu, Tongsheng Chu, Bing Liu, Gongqi Yu, Hongqing Tian, FuRen Zhang Shandong Provincial Institute of Dermatology and Venereology, Provincial Academy of Medical Science, Jinan, Shandong, China; Shandong Provincial Hospital for Skin Diseases, Jinan, Shandong, China; Shandong Provincial Medical Center for Dermatoven...

Qing Lin,1, 2, ∗ Bing He,1, ∗ Liu Yang,3 and Min Xiao1, 4 Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Light Propagation and Transformation, College of Information Science and Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen 361021, China College of Automation, Harbin Engineering University, Heilongjiang 150001, China National Laboratory ...

A number of authors have suggested that investors may derive utility from realizing gains and losses on assets that they own. We present a model of this “realization utility,” analyze its predictions, and show that it can shed light on a number of puzzling facts. These include the disposition effect, the poor trading performance of individual investors, the higher volume of trade in rising mark...

INTRODUCTION In order to alleviate the problem of "Kan Bing Nan, Kan Bing Gui" (medical treatment is difficult to access and expensive) and improve the equity of health service utilisation for urban residents in China, the Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance scheme (UEBMI) and Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance scheme (URBMI) were established in 1999 and 2007, respectively. This study ai...

Structured diagnostic interviews were used to determine DSM-III-R axis I and II diagnoses among 136 female psychiatric inpatients. To distinguish comorbidity of eating disorders with axis I and II disorders from simple diagnostic overlap, the frequency and distribution of diagnoses among the 31 patients with an eating disorder and the 105 without an eating disorder were compared. Social phobia,...

Through focus groups, we examined the development and maintenance of an eating disorder in 16 females with type 1 diabetes and an eating disorder. The quotes and qualitative data summaries provide rich insights into understanding why those with type 1 diabetes are at increased risk for eating disorders. Content analyses revealed five themes pertinent to the dual diagnosis (feeling different, di...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess executive functions of obese individuals with binge eating disorder. METHOD Thirty-eight obese individuals with binge eating disorder were compared to thirty-eight obese controls without binge eating disorder in terms of their executive functions. All individuals were assessed using the following instruments: Digit Span, Trail Making Tests A and B...