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Mental Disorders > Feeding and Eating Disorders > Binge-Eating Disorder

Preferred term

Binge-Eating Disorder  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Scope note

  • A disorder associated with three or more of the following: eating until feeling uncomfortably full; eating large amounts of food when not physically hungry; eating much more rapidly than normal; eating alone due to embarrassment; feeling of disgust, DEPRESSION, or guilt after overeating. Criteria includes occurrence on average, at least 2 days a week for 6 months. The binge eating is not associated with the regular use of inappropriate compensatory behavior (i.e. purging, excessive exercise, etc.) and does not co-occur exclusively with BULIMIA NERVOSA or ANOREXIA NERVOSA. (From DSM-IV, 1994)

History note

  • 2010; use BULIMIA NERVOSA 2000-2009

In other languages

  • ahmintahäiriö

    Finnish

  • ahmimishäiriö
  • ahmimishäiriö ilman kompensaatiota
  • BED
  • lihavan ahmimishäiriö
  • lihavan ahmintahäiriö
  • ylipainoisen ahmimishäiriö
  • ylipainoisen ahmintahäiriö
  • Hetsätningsstörning

    Swedish

  • Bingeätande

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D056912

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