weakness of two month’s duration. She had been diagnosed with anorexia nervosa (binge-eating/purging subtype) at the age of 21 years. She had a history of repeated admissions for hypokalemia caused by self-induced vomiting and abuse of laxatives. On examination, her body mass index was 14.3 kg/m2. Laboratory values showed a serum creatinine level of 51.3 (normal 18–106) μmol/L, a serum potassiu...

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A substantive literature has drawn a compelling case for the functional involvement of mesolimbic/prefrontal cortical neural reward systems in normative control of eating and in the etiology and persistence of severe eating disorders that affect diverse human populations. Presently, we provide a short review that develops an equally compelling case for the importance of dysregulated frontal cor...

Introduction There is an agreement that eating disorder is related to psychological characteristics and on the other hand, level of ghrelin hormone, Intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and E-selection also change during eating disorders. We aimed to study the relationship between eating disorders and rest levels, ICAM-1, E-selection, and ghrelin hormone in obese people. Materials and Met...

Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and the nonspecific disorders of eating behavior are behavioral alterations associated with body image and the act of eating. These disorders have been considered as consequences of the idolatry to be thin, although history reveals they have existed for a long time. Eating disorders have been described from different perspectives and have recently been studied ...

INTRODUCTION Although evidence suggests that interpersonal psychotherapy may be an efficacious treatment for eating disorders, there is surprisingly little systematic knowledge about the interpersonal world of these patients. METHOD SASB self-image ratings were used to explore interpersonal profiles in a large heterogeneous sample of eating disorders (N = 830), matched normal controls (N = 10...

The progressive constriction of the Mississippi for navigation since 1837 has caused bottom erosion in some stretches. In others the bottom oscillates up and down with time. The high stages rise much more rapidly. Constriction of the river channel causes flooding and makes floods higher; thus navigation works degrade the protection afforded by levees. The combination of navigation works and lev...

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