Anxiety in the eating disorders: Understanding the overlap

Clinical Psychology Review

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 366-386

  Pallister, Emma ^a   Waller, Glenn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL AND NORTH WEST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BINGE EATING DISORDER; CHRONOLOGY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EATING DISORDER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PHENOMENOLOGY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROL GROUPS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; SICK ROLE;

EID: 39749177357     PISSN: 02727358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2007.07.001     Document Type: Review

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