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Anorexia
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Anorexia nervosa is defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association 2013) as a feeding and eating disorder characterized by restrictions on eating and significantly low weight. This disorder is manifested through feelings of intense fear of gaining weight that lead to behaviors to stimulate weight loss (e.g., restricted food intake). The fear is not alleviated by weight loss. Self-perception of body weight and shape is often distorted. There are two subtypes: (1) restricting type in which weight loss is accomplished through dieting, caloric restriction, or excessive exercise and there is no binging/purging behavior and (2) binge-eating/purging type in which there are recurrent episodes of binging or purging behaviors.
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The disorder is classified with the Feeding and Eating Disorders in DSM-5.
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The development of anorexia nervosa is...
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Graham, K.M. (2018). Anorexia Nervosa. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_9187
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