Psychiatry and Psychology

Binge-Eating Disorder

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)

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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)

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4 entry terms
  • Binge Eating Disorder
  • Binge-Eating Disorders
  • Disorder, Binge-Eating
  • Disorders, Binge-Eating

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31 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.

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History Note

2010; use BULIMIA NERVOSA 2000-2009

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  • Bulimia Nervosa (2000-2009)

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  1. F03w.400w.188w

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WM 175

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Binge-Eating Disorder. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D056912. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D056912
  2. Binge-Eating Disorder. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binge_eating_disorder
  3. Binge-Eating Disorder. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209522