Maurice Corcos

..The existence of proven positive symptoms and the evolution of negative symptoms, despite a supportive environment and treatment, provide the best diagnostic arguments...

..Addiction has a specific function in adolescent psyche. It regulates the interpersonal relationship which is been considered as a treat by the adolescent. By this way, he's trying to avoid intrusion and abandonment anxiety...

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..Further research is needed to see whether cytokines sustain specific depressive syndromes or whether cytokines induce depressive-like symptoms...

..Nevertheless, these intriguing findings would deserve replication and extension in a larger sample of subjects...

..We therefore investigated in healthy women the relationship between alexithymia and circulating levels of IL-1, IL-2 and IL-4...

..Deregulation of the cytokine network may be responsible for medical complications in eating disorder patients who are afflicted with chronic underweight...

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..The psychopathological significance of these behaviours, their stakes, and their therapeutic consequences are discussed...

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..The objective of the present work is to determine whether the prevalence of depressive and anxiety disorders varies in subgroups of eating disorders (ED) according to age, ED duration, mode of care provision, and body mass index (BMI)...

..This study further demonstrates that alexithymic women have altered immune function, with a predominance of depressed cell-mediated immunity and a skewed Th1/Th2 ratio towards Th2 response...

..Research on treatments in anorexia nervosa (AN) is scarce. Although most of the therapeutic programs used in 'real world practice' in AN treatment resort to multidisciplinary approaches, they have rarely been evaluated...

..Our results demonstrated the adequacy and appropriateness of the OAS in these (and related) clinical samples, which may encourage multimethod alexithymia assessments in both research and clinical practice...

..e., preoccupied and fearful attachment styles) in the development of BPD symptoms are mediated by alexithymia...

..Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa require an important coordination between physicians and psychiatrists. An inpatient treatment can be necessary but it is very rare...

..Alexithymia was compared in women with fertility disorders and fertile women who have never been confronted with fertility problems...

..Alexithymia may skew the Th-1/Th-2 balance toward Th-2 dominant immunity and lower cell-mediated (Th-1) immune response and may increase an individual's risk for stress-related disorder...

..Our objectives were to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Observer Alexithymia Scale (OAS) in eating disorder patients, alexithymia severity across diagnostic subgroups, and correspondence among three alexithymia measures...

..Second, we increased the reliability of the measures by limiting the influence of confounding factors (negative affects)...

..However, they did not exhibit any deficit in recognizing fully expressed emotions. These results suggest that sensitivity to facial emotions is impaired in adolescents with BPD. Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed...

..Results showed that a subgroup of individuals with an eating disorder experiences their disorder as an addiction and may deserve specific therapeutic attention...

..questions: what are the frequencies of anxiety disorders (AD) in anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN), according to DSM-IV criteria? Are AD significantly more frequent among women with an ED than among women from the community?..

..The paper describes the difficulties encountered by our team, and the experimental design chosen to resolve the debate. Data will not be set out here...

..They also stress the need to rely on several alexithymia measurements, and they further demonstrate the necessity to compare the associations between different affect regulation dimensions in normal and psychopathological disorders...

..of eating disorders (ED) for the prevalence of depressive and anxiety disorders, when clinical differences between the groups are taken into account (ie age of subjects, ED duration, inpatient or outpatient status, and Body Mass Index)?..

..International meetings dedicate considerable discussion to the subject but, as it seems to be relatively ignored in the published literature, we here describe the main elements of our own method...

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..Anxiety disorders are significantly more frequent in subjects with eating disorders than in volunteers from the community, a finding that has important etiological and therapeutic implications...

..The study of these specific autoantibodies provides information about the immunological characteristics that may be related to brain disturbances...

..Finally, the Authors discuss some hypotheses concerning the defensive role of weight control strategies and the impact of illness duration on the clinical expression of depression in eating disordered patients...

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..This observation raises the question concerning the relationship between masculine mental anorexia nervosa and fragile sexual identity...

..Hospitalized bulimics are diagnosed with current MDE 4.4 times more often than those seen as...

..53, P=0.001). After taking depression into account as a confounding variable, rates of alexithymia did not vary according to the type of eating disorder (anorexia or bulimia)...

..The results suggest that early psychological distress precedes the onset of an eating disorder in many cases, and that prevention efforts should be directed towards peripubertal psychopathology...

..To examine the factor structure of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), Fourth Edition, criteria for borderline personality disorder (BPD) in a sample of adolescents with a borderline symptomatology...

..CONCLUSION: Interventions targeting depressive and impulsive features associated with BN are essential to reduce the risk of suicide attempt in women with this disorder...

..It is about an easily acceptable and simple questionnaire of use in varied clinical circumstances...

..Cognitive functions of adolescents treated with ECT for mood disorder were evaluated at long-term follow-up...

..The purpose of this study was to calculate alexithymia cutoff scores for a recently developed self-report alexithymia questionnaire: the Bermond-Vorst Alexithymia Questionnaire Form B (BVAQ-B)...

..More clinical and biological studies are needed to further explore these relationships...

..Differently from this author, anaclitism appears to be less differentiated in males than in females, suggesting that the concept of dependence could assume different relevance for men and women...

..In summary, results of the present study add to the literature debating on whether alexithymia is similar in different types of population...

..This result has interesting clinical implications because identifying specific patterns of relationships leading from alexithymia to dependency can provide clues to the development of targeted strategies for at-risk subjects...

..These results can have clinical implications in the treatment of addictive disorders...

..One discriminant function emerged and characterized a depressive dimension. The results suggest that the different risk factors described in addiction could be related to a depressive dimension...

..In some circumstances, regression to this position, even after transient addictive filling-in, could lead to essential depression and to psychosomatic disease...

..The aim of the present study was to investigate the long-term prognostic value of alexithymic features in a sample of patients with eating disorders...

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..Excessive dependency in specific addictive disorders as well as in male non-psychiatric subjects could constitute a risk factor for suicide. This hypothesis must be confirmed using prospective studies...

..The results of this study suggest that people with restricting anorexia and bulimia show specific clinical profiles associating alexithymic features and depressive dimensions...

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..The results of a logistic regression show that the significant factor explaining suicide attempts in drug users is emotional reliance for males and experience-seeking for females...

..For most dimensions, repeat attempters, both past and recent, but more specifically the recent repeaters, had a more severe psychological profile compared to the other suicide attempters...

..The comorbidities of SAD and DPD suggest that specific therapeutic strategies could be discussed. Moreover, longitudinal studies are required to determine if SAD constitutes a risk factor for DPD...

..No relations between the duration of illness and the emotional dimensions were found. This trouble in regulation of emotions either follows the eating disorder and constitutes a lasting sequel, or appears to be a personality trait..