What other diagnosable psychiatric conditions are associated with eating disorders?
What will be an ideal response?
Research finds that over 68 percent of patients with bulimia nervosa and nearly 50 percent of those diagnosed with binge-eating disorder are also diagnosed with depression, and those with either bulimia nervosa or anorexia nervosa often have obsessive-compulsive disorder. Further, substance abuse is often found in those with eating disorders.
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a. eustress and hyperstress b. an anniversary reaction c. unpredictability and uncontrollability d. transitory post-traumatic stress syndrome
What type of disordered conditioning did psychologist Diana Woodruff-Pak notice in patients six years before other tests on these patients showed signs of dementia?
a. salivation b. nose twitch c. knee jerk d. eye blink