The disorder is more common in females than in males and is associated with severity of obesity and a history of marked weight fluctuations. Based on these results, the DSM-IV Work Group on Eating Disorders has recommended that the disorder be considered for inclusion in DSM-IV, either as ...
Binge-eating disorder 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 repeated instances of binge eating in which the individual consumes an amount of food during a lim...
The primary symptom of binge-eating disorderis recurrent episodes in which someone eats, within a 2-hour period, an amount of food that is significantly larger than what most people would eat under similar circumstances. Per theDSM, this episode should be characterized by a feeling that one lac...
Binge Eating Disorder (BED) has been discussed as a disordered eating behavior since the 1950’s but was not officially recognized as its own diagnosis until the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published its 5th Edition (DSM-5) in 2013. Even so, this is not an indicator...
What Is Binge Eating Disorder? Binge eating disorder was first entered into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the American Psychiatric Association’s publication used as a diagnostic tool for mental disorders, in 2013. But doctors and scientists have long noticed the ...
Binge-eating disorder (BED) was first included as its own diagnostic entity in the Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013). Listed as a Feeding and Eating Disorder, the main characteristic of BED is recurre...
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it often goes unrecognised or is treated incorrectly, leading to a much longer duration. In comparison with other eating disorders, binge eating is the most frequent eating disorder across all strata of society. The condition has only been included in the DSM, the manual for the classificat...
Binge eating disorder (BED) and anxiety are deeply intertwined and often co-occur. In fact, approximately 37% of those who are diagnosed with BED are also diagnosed with a full-fledged anxiety disorder.
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether extremely obese binge eating disorder (BED) subjects (BED defined by the Eating Disorder Examination) differ from their extremely obese non-BED counterparts in terms of their eating disturbances, psychiatric morbidity and health status. DESIGN: Prospective clinical compariso...