Bulimia Nervosa
A serious eating disorder marked by binging, followed by methods to avoid weight gain.
Bulimia is a potentially life-threatening eating disorder.
People with this condition binge eat. They then take steps to avoid weight gain. Most commonly, this means vomiting (purging). But it can also mean excessive exercising or fasting.
Treatments include counseling, medications, and nutrition education.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W028
Diagnosis: Bulimia Nervosa
US Patients: About 1%
World Patients: 3.6M
Sex Ratio: M;W9
Age Onset: G13-20
Brain Area: pfc, cingulates, insula cortices
Symptoms: binge eating & vomiting/laxatives; vomit-then-binge cycles
Progression: tooth breakdown, depression, drugs, self-harm, suicide; uncontrolled serotonin
Causes: fixation on thinness and body image from media. African-American women 1.5X that of Caucasian women
Medications: antidepressants
Therapies: CBT, (Jim Lohr: less attention to thin models in the media?) family therapy+C3:C14
Youtube Video: Bulimia Nervosa
Amazon or Library Book:
Eating Disorders Explained
Amazon or Library Book:
Bulimia Nervosa and Eating Disorder
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Support Group: allianceforeatingdisorders.com (On-line)
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Section 12.13.
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
reports chosen for each diagnosis
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PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- Abdominal Compartment Syndrome Secondary to Bulimia Nervosa: A Case Report and Systematic Review of Published Casesby Nifesimi Olojede on May 18, 2024
BACKGROUND: Abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) is typically attributed to critically unwell patients with trauma, burns, post surgery, and massive ascites. A rare but fatal cause of ACS is bulimia nervosa (BN), which is an eating disorder characterized by bingeing, followed by methods to avoid weight gain, including purging.
- Changing cannabis legislation in Canada and a longitudinal look at "regular" cannabis use in patients with eating disordersby Michele M Laliberte on May 17, 2024
Regular cannabis use (CU), defined as "weekly or more often", is associated with a number of negative mental health outcomes. In the last decade, Canada legalized first medical and then recreational CU. Despite higher prevalence in mental health populations, little research has documented changes in frequency of CU with progressive legalization of cannabis. This study examined rates of CU in a sample of 843 treatment-seeking patients with eating disorders (ED) in an outpatient setting between...
- Potential Mechanisms Underlying the Association Between Feeding and Eating Disorders and Autismby Kiera Louise Adams on May 16, 2024
There is a reliable association between autism and Feeding and Eating Disorders. Concerningly, where these two conditions co-occur, clinical outcomes of Feeding and Eating Disorders are significantly worse, and treatment less effective, than when the Feeding and Eating Disorders occur in neurotypical individuals. Problematically, the reason for the association between autism and Feeding and Eating Disorders is poorly understood, which constrains advances in clinical care. This paper outlines...
- Evaluating the predictions of an interoceptive inference model of bulimia nervosaby Maia A Chester on May 14, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: Findings provide initial support for the core predictions of an interoceptive inference account of BN: low trust in sensory information ("sensory precision") may promote an overreliance on maladaptive "prior beliefs" about the effects of eating on negative emotions, ultimately interfering with accurate updating of beliefs about other strategies that could regulate emotions and maintain LOC eating. Low body trust, strong expectations about emotions, and their neurocomputational...