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Using the Activity-based Anorexia Rodent Model to Study the Neurobiological Basis of Anorexia Nervosa
Published on: October 22, 2015
[Clinical aspects of anorexia nervosa in males]
1Servicio de Psiquiatría, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid.
Abstract:
A clinical epidemiological study is carried out on 14 men diagnosed of Anorexia Nervosa According to DSM-III-R and CIE-10. They all were hospitalised and the follow-up after being discharged 1 1/2-2 years. The demographical and social characteristics were analysed; weight loss, main symptoms and stressful factors related with the start of illness. The psychiatric pathologies first degree relatives and personal antecedents. The age of onset was similar to women as well as symptomatology, except more frequent alcohol abuse in males (28.4%), more hyperactivity (71.4% of men), less frequent kleptomania. The personality profile was obsessive-compulsive in half patients, and precipitant stressful factors was found in 71.42% of cases. Affective disorders and alcoholism between first degree relatives were similar to general population. We think that Anorexia Nervosa in males is very similar to females.
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