title: Incorporating dimensions into the classification of eating disorders: three models and their implications for research and clinical practice.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Given renewed interest in dimensional approaches in psychiatric nosology, we review evidence for the utility of including dimensions of eating disorder (ED) psychopathology, comorbid psychopathology, and neurobiology in the classification of EDs.
  
  
  METHODS
  We searched on-line databases and reference lists of published papers for articles on dimensional methods in psychiatric classification, with an emphasis on EDs.
  
  
  RESULTS
  ED classification may be enhanced by including dimensional assessments. Specifically, some ED features appear to exist on a continuum with normality, and dimensional measures of ED severity are likely to have utility in clinical contexts. Furthermore, accumulating data support the validity of ED classification schemes that incorporate dimensions of comorbid psychopathology. Finally, neurobiological dimensions have gained increasing notice across the psychiatric literature and may be particularly salient to the classification of EDs.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  An approach to ED classification that incorporates multiple dimensional measures may have the greatest utility for advancing ED treatment.
authors: Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. wildesje@upmc.edu
authors: Jennifer E
authors: JE
authors: Wildes
authors: Marsha D
authors: MD
authors: Marcus
mesh_terms: D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012106:Research
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