title: Eating disorders: the last 25 years.
abstract: During the past 25 years there has been measurable progress in the understanding and treatment of the three eating disorders-anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. This progress has occurred in four areas-diagnosis, measurement, etiology and treatment. The introduction of diagnosis into the field of eating disorders, which involved a new emphasis on measurement, facilitated studies of epidemiology, etiology and treatment of what have become discrete clinical disorders. The greatest progress has been with bulimia nervosa, in which new behavioral and pharmacological treatments have reversed the pessimism with which the treatment of this disorder had initially been viewed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2648, USA.
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authors.lastname: Stunkard
mesh_terms: D000856:Anorexia Nervosa; D002032:Bulimia; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans