Prominent autistic traits and subthreshold bipolar/mixed features of depression in severe anorexia nervosa.

Objective: Autistic traits are associated with a burdensome clinical presentation of anorexia nervosa (AN), as is AN with concurrent depression. The aim of the present study was to explore the intertwined association between complex psychopathology combining autistic traits, subthreshold bipolarity, and mixed depression among people with AN.

Method: Sixty patients with AN and concurrent major depressive episode (mean age, 22.

Endocrine alterations are the main determinants of cardiac remodelling in restrictive anorexia nervosa.

Objective. Anorexia nervosa is a condition of reduced hemodynamic load, characterized by varying degrees of cardiac remodelling, only in part related to reduced body mass; the mechanism for such variability, as well as its clinical significance, remains unknown. Aim of the study was to assess the possible influence of a great number of clinical, biochemical, and endocrine factors on cardiovascular parameters in restrictive anorexia nervosa.

Increased dopaminergic activity in restricting-type anorexia nervosa.

Eye blink rate, a peripheral measure of central dopaminergic activity, has been investigated in 20 female anorexic "restricting-type" patients and 16 healthy female subjects. A significantly increased blink rate was found in the anorexic patients. A significant positive correlation between blink rate and duration of illness was also found.

Severe acute liver damage in anorexia nervosa: two case reports.

Objective: Two female patients (18 and 30 y old, body mass indexes 14.1 and 13.2 kg/m2) with severe, restrictive anorexia nervosa developed sudden severe liver damage.

[Clinical nutritional outcome in patients recovering in a psychiatric setting from severe protein-energy malnutrition of anorexia nervosa].

Protein energy malnutrition due to anorexia nervosa, either restrictive or bulimic, requires an integrated medical psychiatric intervention to be treated. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of this integrated treatment in severely malnourished anorectic patients requiring to be hospitalized in Psychiatry Unit. Fifteen patients (14 females, 1 male, mean age 19.