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A woman with anorexia has lanugo. What has happened? |
She has grown fine silky hair on her body |
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A woman eating chips and dips and Burgers and Fries and drinks a couple of shakes afterward she goes to the gym and does 90 minutes of aerobics, spending an hour on the stair stepper, and then just wait for another hour. She also does not eat for 72 hours. The set of assumptions underlying her behavior would lead to a diagnosis of |
Binge eating disorder |
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A young woman who is very concerned about being attractive to others, is more sexually experienced, and has relatively few obsessive qualities |
Showing no symptoms that have been found to be related to eating disorders |
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Anorexia nervosa |
A disorder marked by the pursuit of Extreme Fitness and by Extreme Weight Loss |
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Amenorrhea |
The absence of menstrual cycles |
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Bulimia nervosa |
A disorder marked by frequent eating binges that are followed by forced vomiting or other extreme compensatory behaviors to avoid gaining weight. Also known as binge purged syndrome. |
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Binge |
An episode of uncontrollable eating during which a person ingests a very large quantity of food |
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Binge eating disorder |
A disorder marked by frequent binges but not extreme compensatory Behavior |
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Multi-dimensional risk perspective |
A theory that identifies several kinds of risk factors that are thought to combine to help cause a disorder. The more factors present, the greater the risk of developing the disorder. |
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Hypothalamus |
A part of the brain that helps regulate various bodily functions, including eating and hunger. |
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Lateral hypothalamus |
Brain region that produces hunger when activated |
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Ventromedial hypothalamus |
A brain region that depresses hunger when activated |
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Weight set point |
The weight level that a person is predisposition to maintain, controlled in part by the hypothalamus |
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Enmeshed family pattern |
A family system in which members are over involved with each other's Affairs and over concerned about each other's welfare |
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Depression and eating disorders are correlated. What does the statement mean? |
Eating Disorders cause people to be more likely to be depressed |
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The concordance rate for anorexia nervosa in identical twins at 70%. This means that |
If one identical twin has anorexia, there is a 70% chance of the other two and has anorexia too. |
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In which case is someone most likely to develop an eating disorder? |
If the person has an identical twin with anorexia nervosa |
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Serotonin levels are low and those with eating disorders and in those with obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression this means that |
There is a relationship, but no evidence of causation. |
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Which medical breakthrough is most likely to appeal to an overweight person |
Which medical breakthrough is most likely to appeal to an overweight person? |
A way to safely block glp - 1 in humans |
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If one found that the average weight and size of cheerleaders had declined significantly over the years, and that those who aspired to be cheerleaders had a high level of eating disorders, that would be evidence what kind of cause of eating disorders |
Societal |
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Which situation would most likely lead to a diagnosis of muscle dysmorphia? |
A man who is muscular but does not see himself as being muscular and so continues to strive for a perfect body |
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The most appropriate diagnosis for a man who is strong and fit but does not see himself that way and continue to push himself is |
Muscle dysmorphia |
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A man with muscle dysmorphia is most likely to |
Feel that he is funny despite the fact that he is not |
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The most realistic statement a person with anorexia would make following cognitive treatment is |
I expect to feel that because of my illness |
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A patient with anorexia who says I know that a key feature of anorexia nervosa is a misperception of my own size, so I can expect to feel fat regardless of my actual side. Had most likely received |
Cognitive behavioral therapy |
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An example of a disturbed cognition that might be present in a person being treated for anorexia is the statement |
My weight and shape determine my value |
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Peter is a behavioral therapist who exposes patients with bulimia two situations that usually cause binge eating episodes and then prevents them from binge eating. The technique that she is using is called |
Exposure and response prevention |
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A therapist who sat with the patient with bulimia while the patient is appropriate quantities of forbidden foods, and then stayed until the patient no longer had the urge to purge, would be practicing what technique |
Exposure and prevention |
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