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Severity of bulimia nervosa and its impact on treatment outcome

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  1. Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Via Cadore 48, 20900, Monza, Italy

    Antonios Dakanalis & Massimo Clerici

  2. Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

    Antonios Dakanalis

  3. Department of Neuroscience, Functional Pharmacology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Santino Gaudio

  4. Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology Laboratory, IRCSS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy

    Giuseppe Riva

  5. Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Giuseppe Riva

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Dakanalis, A., Gaudio, S., Riva, G. et al. Severity of bulimia nervosa and its impact on treatment outcome. Eat Weight Disord 22, 727–729 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-017-0422-9

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