title: A psychiatric study of deviant eating behaviour among mentally handicapped adults.
abstract: A study of deviant eating behaviour among mentally handicapped adults in community placements is reported. Those individuals with a psychiatric disorder showed more deviant eating behaviour. Depressed subjects, in particular, showed an excess of the amount eaten and time spent searching for food, as well as the tendency to eat all sweet food presented to them. Non-food pica was uncommon, even among the autistic subjects.
authors.affiliation: Ida Darwin Hospital, Fulbourn, Cambridge.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: O'Brien
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Whitehouse
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000523:psychology; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D004327:Drinking Behavior; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012931:Social Environment