Early-onset anorexia nervosa in girls with Asperger syndrome

Eating disorders frequently occur in conjunction with autism spectrum disorders, posing diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties. The comorbidity of anorexia nervosa and Asperger syndrome is a significant clinical complication and has been associated with a poorer prognosis. The authors are presentin...

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Autores principales: Dudova, Iva, Kocourkova, Jana, Koutek, Jiri
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2015
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Case Series
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4494624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26170676
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S83831
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author Dudova, Iva
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description Eating disorders frequently occur in conjunction with autism spectrum disorders, posing diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties. The comorbidity of anorexia nervosa and Asperger syndrome is a significant clinical complication and has been associated with a poorer prognosis. The authors are presenting the cases of an eleven-year-old girl and a five-and-a-half-year-old girl with comorbid eating disorders and Asperger syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-44946242015-07-13 Early-onset anorexia nervosa in girls with Asperger syndrome Dudova, Iva Kocourkova, Jana Koutek, Jiri Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat Case Series Eating disorders frequently occur in conjunction with autism spectrum disorders, posing diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties. The comorbidity of anorexia nervosa and Asperger syndrome is a significant clinical complication and has been associated with a poorer prognosis. The authors are presenting the cases of an eleven-year-old girl and a five-and-a-half-year-old girl with comorbid eating disorders and Asperger syndrome. Dove Medical Press 2015-07-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4494624/ /pubmed/26170676 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S83831 Text en © 2015 Dudova et al. This work is published by Dove Medical Press Limited, and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed.
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Early-onset anorexia nervosa in girls with Asperger syndrome
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title_full Early-onset anorexia nervosa in girls with Asperger syndrome
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title_short Early-onset anorexia nervosa in girls with Asperger syndrome
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4494624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26170676
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S83831
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