The relationship between anorexia nervosa and depression: A reevaluation

Levy, Alan B.; Dixon, Katharine N.

doi:10.1002/1098-108x(198511)4:4<389::aid-eat2260040403>3.0.co;2-3

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“…As pointed out by O'Brien and Vincent (2003), there is evidence to suggest that caloric deprivation may act as a contributor to depressive symptomatology within women with bulimia and anorexia, but it does not appear to account fully for the high level of co-morbidity. On this point, Levy and Dixon (1985), in their review, argued that the data suggested that the association between AN and depression is more complex than only being the result of starvation. Unfortunately, in their review, there are a number of methodological diffi culties with the studies presented.…”

Section: Depression and Eating Disordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eating disorders and multi‐level models of emotion: An integrated model

Fox

Power

2009

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

127

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This paper examines the relationship between emotions, depression and eating disorders. Initially, a review is undertaken of the current state of the research and clinical literature with regard to emotional factors in eating disorders. This literature is then integrated within a version of the multi-level model of emotion proposed by Power and Dalgleish. The aim of this paper is to incorporate a basic emotions, multi-modal perspective into developing a new emotions-based model that offers a theoretical understanding of psychological mechanisms in eating disorders. Within the new Schematic Propositional Analogical Associative Representation System model applied to eating disorders, it is argued that the emotions of anger and disgust are of importance in eating disorders and that the eating disorder itself operates as an inhibitor of emotions within the self. It is hoped that the development of a multi-levelled model of eating disorders will allow for the construction of number of specific testable hypotheses that are relevant to future research into the psychological treatment and understanding of eating disorders.

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Section: Depression and Eating Disordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eating disorders and multi‐level models of emotion: An integrated model

Fox

Power

2009

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

127

149

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“…Anorexia nervosa has actually been considered as a heterogeneous pathology and not a single entity by certain authors [58]. For others it consists of a constellation of symptoms of various psychopathological origins [66]. Genetic factors could thus be more specifically involved in a subtype of anorexia nervosa (sometimes called 'endophenotype').…”

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“…In fact the two disorders have many diagnostic criteria in common, such as loss of appetite, sadness, sleep disorders, loss of libido, and concentration difficulties [66]. Moreover, there is an important comorbidity between these two disorders, the incidence of depression in patients with anorexia nervosa ranging between 25 and 88% [66]; and, (4) antidepressive treatment seems to improve certain anorexic patients, even without comorbid affective disorder [74,78,123]. Additionally, the risk of depressive disorder seems to be higher in families of anorexic patients.…”

Section: Defining the Boundaries Of The Phenotypementioning

confidence: 99%

Genetic factors in anorexia nervosa

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Anorexia nervosa is a severe and complex disorder with incompletely known vulnerability factors. It is generally recognized that anorexia nervosa is a familial disorder, but the majority of twin studies have shown that the concordance rate for monozygotic twins is higher (on average 44%) than for dizygotic twins (on average 12.5%). This difference in concordance rates shows that genetic factors, more than common familial environment, may explain why the 'anorexia nervosa' phenotype runs in families. In order to estimate the heritability in the broad sense of anorexia nervosa according to published familial and twin studies, we first assessed the intrapair correlation between monozygotic and dizygotic twins, and secondly calculated the deviation threshold of relatives of affected probands from the relative mean. In this review, we obtained an estimation of the heritability at 0.72 according to all published controlled familial studies (six references quoted in MEDLINE(R)), and 0.71 for all published twin studies (59 references quoted in MEDLINE(R)). This estimation is close to the ones previously proposed, between 0. 5 and 0.8. Familial and twin studies may also help to define the boundaries of the phenotype, shedding light on the complex relationship between anorexia nervosa on the one hand, and bulimia nervosa, mood disorders, and alcoholism on the other. Demonstrating the importance of genetic factors in anorexia nervosa, and more specifically for anorexia of the restrictive type, requires not only prospective and adoption studies (which are still lacking), but also genetic polymorphisms analyses, which began very recently.

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“…In fact, eating disordered patients display poor impulse control, as is indicated, for instance, by binge eating and/or vomiting. In addition to the negative mood observed in this sample, recent studies (Altshuler & Weiner, 1985;Levy & Dixon, 1985) have also shown that these patients in early adulthood suffer to a great degree from depression. Furthermore, numerous studies besides this one have shown that body image is distorted in a large number of patients (for review see Hsu & Sobkiewicz, 1991).…”

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The self-image of adolescent patients with eating disorders

Steinhausen

Vollrath

1993

Int. J. Eat. Disord.

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Forty German adolescent anorectic patients were assessed with regard to self‐image components as measured by the Offer Self‐image Questionnaire (OSIQ). The profile of this group deviated negatively from the German standardization group of healthy subjects on measures of impulse control, emotional tone, body image, social relationships, sexual attitudes, and psychopathohgy. In addition, the OSIQ profile of this German sample was remarkably similar to the profiles of samples reported in two American studies. Finally, it was found that inpatient treatment served to improve the psychological condition of the patients with regard to certain but not all self‐image components. Despite a trend of improvement, some of the scores did not fully normalize in this sample. © 1993 by lohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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The relationship between anorexia nervosa and depression: A reevaluation

Cited by 14 publications

References 70 publications

Eating disorders and multi‐level models of emotion: An integrated model

Eating disorders and multi‐level models of emotion: An integrated model

Genetic factors in anorexia nervosa

The self-image of adolescent patients with eating disorders

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