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Anorexia iN Cancer Patients: ANCHOR
The rationale for this study is to prospectively investigate the outcomes of patients undergoing standard dietetic interventions alongside treatment for their advanced gastrointestinal cancers, and to further characterise the relationship with body composition. A number of patients will be enrolled in a sub-study investigating the neuronal-enteroendocrine-hypothalamic axis. Gut hormone study. …
Remission Factors in Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a complex and multifactorial psychiatric disease that affects mostly women and is characterized by a self-restriction of food intake leading to life-threatening consequences whose underlying mechanisms are largely unexplored. AN encompasses a constellation of risk factors including genetic, biological, neuro-psychological and social factors. Although AN has …
Appetitive Conditioning in Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is characterized by a reduced drive to pursue rewarding experiences and stimuli. Food consumption - which is almost universally experienced as pleasurable - is not described as rewarding by those with AN. This is thought to be underpinned by abnormalities around reward learning. However, the most fundamental …
Norwegian Microbiota Study in Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a serious mental disorder occurring mainly in women. AN is characterized by severely restricted food-intake and subsequent low weight. The disease burden for the individual is high with medical complications and psychiatric comorbidities. Despite decades of research, there are large gaps in the understanding of the …
Novel Targetable BIOmarkers in ANorexia NervosA
The overall aim of this present study is to evaluate Growth Differentiation Factor-15 (GDF-15) and inflammatory cytokines as a possible novel and readily treatable target for the successful therapy of Anorexia Nervosa (AN). Therefore, GDF-15, neuronal and glial damage markers such as Neurofilament light chain (Nfl) and Glial fibrillary acidic …
Drugs Experience for Adolescents With Anorexia
The purpose of this study is to access to the experiences of adolescents, their parents and healthcare professionals regarding psychotropic drugs in anorexia nervosa. No preconceived ideas (according to qualitative methods) but a question: what are the participants' perceptions and experiences of psychotropic drugs in anorexia nervosa? In an adolescent …
Rubber Hand Illusion in Anorexia Nervosa
The present research project aims to verify a possible difference in the recalibration of the real hand position (i.e. proprioceptive drift) in relation to the dimensions of the plastic hand in the Rubber Hand Illusion, among a group of female participants with anorexia nervosa compared with a normal weight control …
Characteristics of Illness Awareness in Anorexia Nervosa
Objective: To study the characteristics of illness awareness, its dimensions and its evolution in relation to clinical, cognitive and psychosocial variables in patients with anorexia nervosa. Design: observational longitudinal design. Method: First, the process of translating and culturally adapting the Schedule for the Assessment of Insight in Eating Disorders (SAI-ED) …
Body Composition in Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa
Body Mass Index (BMI) is currently the most widely recommended parameter for identifying underweight subjects. Among eating disorder diseases, anorexia nervosa (AN) is the one with the highest mortality rate and with relapses between 12 and 27%. To date, recovery programs allow approximately 40% of subjects to achieve recovery, 30% …
Nutritional Rehabilitation and Markers of Severity in Anorexia Nervosa
The design of this project is a longitudinal trial in patients with Anorexia Nervosa (AN) during in-hospital rehabilitation. Τhe structure of the study, the questionnaires and data protection policy prepared exclusively for our study, have been reviewed and standardised at Institutional Review Boards (Ethics Committees, IRBs,) in Harokopio University of …