Chapter 9: Eating

Question 1

Sir William Withey Gull

Answer 1

British physician first to use the term anorexia nervosa in 1872

Question 2

1970

Answer 2

Recognition of bulimia nervosa as separate condition

Question 3

DSM-IV

Answer 3

Eating disorders were included for the first time as a separate group of disorders

Question 4

Bulimia Nervosa

Answer 4

— Eating disorder involving recurrent episodes of uncontrolled excessive (binge)eating followed by compensatory actions to remove the food (vomiting, laxatives, excessive exercise)
— more common than anorexia, one of the most common disorders on university campuses.

Question 5

Anorexia Nervosa

Answer 5

Eating disorder characterized by recurrent food refusal leading to dangerously low body weight.

Question 6

Binges

Answer 6

Relatively brief episodes of uncontrolled, excessive consumption, usually of food or alcohol

Question 7

Binge eating disorder (BED)

Answer 7

Pattern of eating involving distress inducing binges not followed by purging behaviours

Question 8

Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)

Answer 8

— Involves a lack of interest in eating food, oversensitivity to certain aspects of food, or concerns about consequences of eating.
— usually detected in infants and children and may persist in adulthood