PSYC 238 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Insular Cortex, Antidepressant, Therapeutic Relationship

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 238
• Professor: Lyubansky Mikhail

Document Summary

Bulimia nervosa: binge eating occurring at least once a week for 3 months, recurrent, inappropriate compensatory behavior for 3 months, self-evaluation is unduly influenced by body shape and weight. Binge eating: eating a greater amount of food in a fixed period of time than what most people would eat and accompanied by a sense of lack of control over what and how much one is eating. Anorexia nervosa: restriction of energy intake relative to need leading to significantly low body weight, significant = weight that is less than minimally normal, an intense fear of gaining weight, distorted sense of body shape. Types of anorexia: restricting type, limit the amount of food eaten, rarely or never binge eat or purge, binge-eating-purging type, regular binge eating and purging. Changes in dsm-5: bulimia nervosa, the number of binges reduced from twice a week to once a week, dropped subtypes, anorexia nervosa, criterion a was made less stringent, dropped loss of menstruation.