Fernando Fernandez-Aranda

..Body size perception does not appear to be a predictor of treatment outcome in eating disorders...

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..This is the first report in which bulimia nervosa (BN) and its treatment in a blind woman were described...

..Nevertheless, to the authors' knowledge, these are the first reported cases of orlistat misuse as the only purging mechanism in two BN patients...

..A classical conditioning behavioral model, was useful for the understanding and formulation of this case. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first reported case where a parasitic infestation triggered the onset of BED...

..To assess the differences in comorbid lifetime and current substance use (tobacco, alcohol and drug use) between eating disorder (ED) patients and healthy controls in five different European countries...

..However, it has not yet been established which techniques yield the best results, or whether exposure and response prevention (ERP) techniques are of additional use...

..Age of onset of gambling problems seems to influence the clinical presentation of pathological gambling but not treatment outcome...

..To classify into subgroups a sample of pathological gambling (PG) patients according to personality variables and to describe the subgroups at a clinical level...

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..These are the first two variants associated with the pathophysiology of ED in different populations and support a role for BDNF in the susceptibility to aberrant eating behaviors...

..To compare the importance given to self/other standards by eating disorder (ED) patients and healthy controls...

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..These results support the involvement of BDNF in eating behaviour and further suggest its participation in the genetic susceptibility to ED, mainly ANR and low minBMI...

..Eating disorder patients may have inadequate anger expression and deficits in coping with anger and frustration. Furthermore, different purging methods may be related to different facets of anger...

..To determine if male and female eating disorders differ in clinics, psychopathology and personality traits when compared with a healthy group...

..Our study shows that ED patients can be meaningfully grouped according to temperament and character...

..We also determined the variables that better correlate with of SA...

..Although some obsessive-compulsive and eating disorder patients share common traits (e.g. some personality traits especially between OCD and AN), both disorders seem to be clinically and psychopathologically different...

..These findings suggest that the fragmentation of meals within the family and an excessive importance given to food by the individual and the family are linked to the later development of an ED...

..The main objective of this study was to compare the clinical characteristics and differences in response to treatment of two groups of pathological gamblers: with comorbid Parkinson's disease (PG + PD) and without (PG - PD)...

..Although several naturalistic studies have been conducted showing the usefulness of serious video games in the treatment of some abnormal behaviours, there is a lack of serious games specially designed for treating mental disorders...

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..Untreated ICD may complicate recovery from eating disorders...

..We sought to explore the association between self-reported impulsivity and neurocognitive measures, and their association with treatment outcome in pathologic gambling...

..Threshold BN and subthreshold BN share common psychopathological symptoms and personality traits. No differences in therapy outcome were observed for the two groups after a brief group psychoeducational intervention...

..To explore similarities and differences in clinical and personality variables across three groups: binge eating disorder (BED), bulimia nervosa-purging type (BN-P), and bulimia nervosa-non purging type (BN-NP)...

..Conclusions. The results support the validity and reliability of the URICA in a Spanish clinical population of pathological gamblers...

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..The aim of the study was to investigate whether there is a common pattern of executive dysfunction in EWC while comparing anorexia nervosa patients (AN), obese subjects (OB) and healthy eating/weight controls (HC)...

..Our preliminary data suggest that the serotoninergic system contributes to the different psychopathological symptoms that may be partially responsible for the phenotypical variability within the bulimic phenotype...

..To examine whether outpatient treatment for male patients with bulimic symptomatology is as effective as it is for females...

..Predictors of early symptom changes and dropouts were similar to those identified in longer CBT interventions...

..The objective of the study was to assess the predictive value of personality profiles to classify individuals with bulimia nervosa (BN), pathological gambling (PG), and a nonpsychiatric comparison group while controlling for sex...

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..g. lack of self-control strategies) in Eating and Impulse control disorders. Preliminary data will be shown...

..The temporal relation between EDs and MDD onset was analyzed to determine differences in the course and nature of MDD when experienced prior to versus after the onset of the ED...

..BDNF plasma levels have been found altered in ED and in psychiatric disorders that show comorbidity with ED...