Examining the Utility of Narrowing Anorexia Nervosa Subtypes for Adults

The purpose of this investigation was to examine whether narrowing the criteria of anorexia nervosa (AN) subtypes among adults based on further delineations of current binge eating and purging (i.e., binge eating only, purging only, binge eating and purging, and restricting only) improves the potential clinical utility of the current DSM-5 system that specifies two types (i.e., current binge eating and/or purging and restricting, specified as the absence of current binge eating and/or purging).

Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - February 17, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Carol B. Peterson, Emily M. Pisetsky, Sonja A. Swanson, Ross D. Crosby, James E. Mitchell, Stephen A. Wonderlich, Daniel Le Grange, Laura Hill, Pauline Powers, Scott J. Crow Source Type: research