Changes in genetic and environmental influences on disordered eating between pre-menarche and postmenarche girls. A twin study.

significantly increase during puberty. The goal of this research is to evaluate changes during puberty which could have genetic and environmental influences on a broad spectrum of disordered eating attitudes and behaviors. Methods.

Nutrient Intake and Depression Symptoms in Spanish Children: The ANIVA Study.

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between nutritional intake and depressive symptoms in Valencian schoolchildren. The ANIVA (Antropometria y Nutricion Infantil de Valencia) study is a descriptive cross-sectional study. During academic year 2013-2014, 710 schoolchildren aged 6-9 years were selected from eleven primary schools in Valencia (Spain).

Genetic and environmental contributions to perfectionism and its common factors.

Unlabelled: The aims of this study: (1) To evaluate the relative contributions of genetics and environment to perfectionism and it's two constructs: self-oriented, and socially prescribed perfectionism. (2) To clarify genetic and environmental common origins of both personal and social components.

Methods: Participants were 258 pairs of adolescent Spanish twins.

Genetic and environmental influences on psychological traits and eating attitudes in a sample of Spanish schoolchildren.

Introduction: The heritability of eating disorders has been estimated to range from 22% to over 62%.The aim of this study is to determine the relative influence of genetics and environment that contribute to the drive for thinness, body dissatisfaction, perfectionism, and ineffectiveness, by evaluating sex differences in a sample of adolescent twins from Valencia, Spain.

Material And Methods: Five hundred eighty-four pairs of adolescent twins between 13 and 18 years of age completed the study.

[Genetic and environmental contributions to body mass index in a Spanish adolescent twin sample].

Background And Objective: Twin and family studies support large genetic influences on variability in body mass index (BMI), with heritability estimates ranging from 47% to over 90%. Our objective was to study the relative contributions of genetics and environment to BMI, evaluating sex differences, in an adolescent twin sample from Valencia, Spain.

Material And Methods: Five hundred eighty-four pairs of adolescent twins between 13 and 18 years of age completed the study (82 monozygotic [MZ] and 87 dizygotic [DZ] pairs of male twins, 118 MZ and 102 DZ pairs of female twins, and 195 opposite-sex pairs of DZ twins).

[Eating disorders: Considerations on nosology, etiology and treatment in the XXI century].

Amazing advances have been made in medical sciences since the first international conference on eating disorders (ED) was held in the 1970s, and there have been remarkable changes in the field of ED itself. Back then, virtually all that was talked about was anorexia nervosa; clinicians and researchers were mainly concerned about the possible hypothalamic and endocrine factors that seemed to be involved and there had been no epidemiological studies or controlled trials with psychiatric drugs or psychotherapy. Although the picture today is quite different, there are still significant gaps which even affect the classification of these disorders, as well as their neurobiological bases and both the pharmacological and psychological treatments which should be used.

Bipolar patients in community mental health centers and specialized units. Could they be pooled?

Introduction: Bipolar patients recruited for studies are usually picked from Bipolar Disorder Units, which only contain a fraction of the total population of patients with bipolar disorder. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the course of the illness is comparable in patients from a Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) and those from a Bipolar Disorder Unit (BDU).

Methods: This study was carried out at the La Fe Teaching Hospital BDU and two CMCH.

Life-Chart Methodology: a long past and a short history.

Objectives: Nowadays, the use of the Life-Chart Methodology is common in bipolar disorder clinics. Our aim was to present a chart from the Archives of the University Heidelberg (Germany).

Methods: The clinical case records dating from Emil Kraepelin's direction of the Psychiatric Clinic at Heidelberg were systematically screened.

Homosexual delusional jealousy in two heterosexual women.

The present paper focuses on two patients suffering from delusional jealousy with an uncommon feature. Both cases are women who developed a homosexual delusional jealousy, that is, 'the phantom other' is a person of the same gender as the individual supposedly having an affair. The discussion centres on the possible sociological aspects and changes in the 'Zeitgeist' that may have favoured the onset of the two reported cases.