Validation of the Italian Yale Food Addiction Scale in postgraduate university students.

Purpose: This study was aimed to examine the structural and construct validity of the Italian version of the Yale Food Addiction Scale in a multisite sample of postgraduate students.

Methods: Two hundred and fifty-six subjects (78.1% females) aged from 18 to 53 years (mean = 23.

Visual evaluation of food amount in patients affected by Anorexia Nervosa.

Objective: The study compares visual evaluation of an amount of food and an amount of nonedible objects in patients affected by Anorexia Nervosa and control subjects.

Method: 59 anorexic subjects were asked to evaluate an amount of candies and plastic bricks shown to them. Their answers were compared to both the real number of objects and the parallel evaluations given by 56 control subjects.