This report describes a case of bulimia nervosa presenting with atypical features and her treatment response to SSRIs.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to review the extant treatment literature on bulimia nervosa and to offer suggestions for future research directions. METHOD The available treatment studies regarding both pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy are reviewed. RESULTS Both pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy appear to play a role in the treatment of bulimia nervosa; however, available data su...

A Bulimia Nervosa é considerada como um transtorno alimentar específico desde 1980, com a publicação do DSM-III e pode trazer impacto significativo na vida paciente, tanto para o aceitamento diagnóstico andamento tratamento. terapia cognitivo comportamental, vem contribuindo significativamente melhora da Nervosa, pois ajuda nos sintomas faz prevenção contra recaídas, regressando alteração das c...

In a pilot study, core beliefs and underlying assumptions were investigated in patients with bulimia nervosa, patients with depression and female controls, using a new self-report measure. The patients with bulimia nervosa did not differ from the patients with depression in negative self beliefs but they did differ in assumptions concerned with weight, shape and eating. Both groups of patients ...

BACKGROUND Bulimia and anorexia nervosa are the main diagnostic categories of eating disorders, affecting up to 1.5% of people in the USA at any one time. Both conditions are associated with physical (eg, reduced body mass index, percentage of body fat) and psychosocial (eg, depression, anxiety, quality of life) impairments, as well as high risk of death. Anorexia nervosa is specifically charac...

Am norexia nervosa, bulimia, and related eating disorders are a heterogeneous group of priary psychiatric disorders whose incidence has approached epidemic proportions in recent years [1,2]. Patients with eating disorders may have numerous secondary medical, hypothalamic, endocrine, metabolic, and nutritional abnormalities [2-38,58-60], some of which may be or become severe enough to be lifethr...