PSYC 446 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Anorectic, Dysphoria, Smocking
18 Sep 2018
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Often eating is the primary activity in social settings. A refusal to maintain a minimal body weight. Weight loss is often viewed as an important achievement and weight gain as a significant loss of self-control. Onset: early- middle teens following either a period of life stress or an intense period of dieting. Ten times more females than males are afflicted by the disorder. Increasing trend towards early-onset anorexia in girls between 8 and 13 years of age. Restricted type of anorexia nervosa: a type of anorexia nervosa in which self- starvation is not associated with concurrent purging. Binge-eating/purging type an: a type of eating disorder in which the sufferer regularly engages in purging activities to help control weight again. But: difficulty in establishing whether the hpa axis abnormalities are related to starvation and weight loss or to an itself! Stress leads to the hypersecretion of chr (which is known to be a potent anorexic agent)
