Anorexia Flashcards
Amenorrhea
Lack of periods for at least 3 months.
The serotonin hypothesis
Low levels of 5HT/serotonin leads to depression which can trigger anorexia.
Prozac
A brand of anti-depressant medication.
Pica
Persistent eating of non-nutritive substances for a period of at least a month.
Diathesis-stress model
Anorexia is the result of a biological pre-disposition, but with an environmental trigger.
Feminist approach
Involves looking at how eating disorders develop in relation to the way feminism is constructed within society.
Ineffective parent
Not being able to distinguish a child’s needs, thus they define their needs themselves. Therefore the child can’t tell between their own internal needs and the needs of the parent.
Socio-cultural approach
Anorexia caused by pressure in society to conform to the idealised notion of beauty.
Faulty thinking
Seeing yourself as bigger than you are in the mirror, overestimating body size.
BED
Binge eating disorder.
Twin studies
Comparing Mz and Dz twins often to find similarities and trends. Key method when studying anorexia.
Ficher and Pirke
Hormonal changes induced by starvation are the same as those measured in patients with eating disorders. Therefore it’s not an underlying cause.
Kortegaard et al
Mz twins more likely to both have bulimia than Dz twins.
DSM5
The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (the fifth one).
