Circulating brain-derived neurotrophic factor is decreased in women with anorexia and bulimia nervosa but not in women with binge-eating disorder: Relationships to co-morbid depression, psychopathology and hormonal variables

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 897-905

  Monteleone, Palmiero ^a   Fabrazzo, Michele ^a   Martiadis, Vassilis ^a   Serritella, Cristina ^a   Pannuto, Marilena ^a   Maj, Mario ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HORMONE; LIOTHYRONINE; NEUROTROPHIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BODY WEIGHT; BULIMIA; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; MENTAL DISEASE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE;

ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BULIMIA; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; ENERGY INTAKE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 21044453596     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291704003368     Document Type: Article

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