Autobiographical memory in adolescent girls with anorexia nervosa

European Eating Disorders Review

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 479-486

  Bomba, Monica ^a,b   Marfone, Mirella ^a   Brivio, Elisa ^b   Oggiano, Silvia ^b   Broggi, Fiorenza ^b   Neri, Francesca ^a,b   Nacinovich, Renata ^a,b  

^a SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

alexithymia; anorexia nervosa; autobiographical memory; depression; overgeneral memories

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY TEST; CHILD; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSION INVENTORY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EATING DISORDER INVENTORY 3; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING AND MEMORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ASSOCIATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; INTERVIEW; LEARNING; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CUES; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84912534888     PISSN: 10724133     EISSN: 10990968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/erv.2321     Document Type: Article

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