Adolescent Eating Disorders: Update on Definitions, Symptomatology, Epidemiology, and Comorbidity

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 177-196

  Herpertz Dahlmann, Beate ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Anorexia nervosa; Binge eating disorder; Bulimia nervosa; Comorbidity; Diagnostic classification; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BODY IMAGE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BULIMIA; CHILD NUTRITION; COMORBIDITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DSM-5; DSM-IV; EATING DISORDER; EXERCISE; FAMILY THERAPY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MOOD DISORDER; MORTALITY; OSTEOPENIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SYMPTOM; WEIGHT CONTROL; ADOLESCENT; BINGE-EATING DISORDER; BONE DISEASES, METABOLIC; BRAIN DISEASES; BULIMIA NERVOSA; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EATING DISORDERS; MENTAL DISORDERS; SELF CONCEPT;

ADOLESCENT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BINGE-EATING DISORDER; BONE DISEASES, METABOLIC; BRAIN DISEASES; BULIMIA NERVOSA; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EATING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREVALENCE; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 84927613623     PISSN: 10564993     EISSN: 15580490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chc.2014.08.003     Document Type: Review

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