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Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder. Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder ( ARFID) is a feeding or eating disorder in which individuals significantly limit the volume or variety of foods they consume, causing malnutrition, weight loss, and/or psychosocial problems. [ 1] Unlike eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia ...
Pica is the eating or craving of things that are not food. [ 2] It is classified as an eating disorder but can also be the result of an existing mental disorder. [ 3] The ingested or craved substance may be biological, natural or manmade. The term was drawn directly from the medieval Latin word for magpie, a bird subject to much folklore ...
Binge eating disorder ( BED) is an eating disorder characterized by frequent and recurrent binge eating episodes with associated negative psychological and social problems, but without the compensatory behaviors common to bulimia nervosa, OSFED, or the binge-purge subtype of anorexia nervosa . BED is a recently described condition, [ 8] which ...
Eating disorder; Specialty: Psychiatry, clinical psychology: Symptoms: Abnormal eating habits that negatively affect physical or mental health [1]: Complications: Anxiety disorders, depression, substance abuse, [2] arrhythmia, heart failure and other heart problems, acid reflux (gastroesophageal reflux disease or GERD), gastrointestinal problems, low blood pressure (hypotension), organ failure ...
Feeding disorder. A feeding disorder, in infancy or early childhood, is a child's refusal to eat certain food groups, textures, solids or liquids for a period of at least one month, which causes the child to not gain enough weight, grow naturally or cause any developmental delays. [1] Feeding disorders resemble failure to thrive, except that at ...
Maudsley family therapy. Maudsley family therapy also known as family-based treatment or Maudsley approach, is a family therapy for the treatment of anorexia nervosa devised by Christopher Dare and colleagues at the Maudsley Hospital in London. A comparison of family to individual therapy was conducted with eighty anorexia patients.
Pagophagia. Pagophagia (from Greek: pagos, frost/ice, + phagÅ, to eat [ 1]) is the compulsive consumption of ice or iced drinks. [ 2] It is a form of the disorder known as pica, which in Latin refers to a magpie that eats everything indiscriminately. [ 3] Pica's medical definition refers to the persistent consumption of nonnutritive substances ...
The cognitive behavioral treatment of eating disorders emphasizes on the minimization of negative thoughts about body image and the act of eating, and attempts to alter negative and harmful behaviors that are involved in and perpetuate eating disorders. [2] It also encourages the ability to tolerate negative thoughts and feelings as well as the ...