Eating Disorder
A disorder in which a person works for extreme weight loss.
What is anorexia?
Lacking the ability to perceive and adjust to reality.
What is ego deficiency ?
A brain structure that helps maintain various bodily functions, including eating and hunger.
What is the hypothalamus?
A treatment method that involves questioning and empathetic listening to help clients realize they have a problem and make changes in their lives.
What is motivational interviewing ?
A program that was made by psychologists to help people overcome eating disorders.
What is the body project?
When a person does not get a menstrual cycle.
What is amenorrhea?
A state of sadness, low energy, low self-worth, etc.
What is depression ?
A region of the hypothalamus that produces hunger when activated.
What is the lateral hypothalamus ?
A therapy that aims to help clients counteract harmful behaviors and stop dysfunctional thoughts.
What is cognitive behavioral therapy?
A method of understanding your contradicting beliefs and changing your behavior to reduce that mental conflict.
What is cognitive dissonance theory?
A disorder in which a person eats excessively without trying to undo the effects of binging.
What is binge eating disorder?
Dysfunctional brain circuits in regions associated with hunger.
What are biological factors ?
A region of the hypothalamus that depresses hunger when activated.
What is the ventromedial hypothalamus?
A therapy in which a group of people share their experiences and thoughts to work through difficult issues and disorders.
What is psychotherapy
A group of high school girls, committed to change how the media present female bodies.
What is the spark movement ?
An episode of extremely excessive eating.
What is binge?
Media portrayals of abnormally thin people leading to pressure to always be thinner.
What is societal pressures ?
The weight that a person is likely to maintain (controlled in part by the hypothalamus).
What is the weight set point?
Drug therapy to improve mood.
What is an antidepressants ?
A method of identifying several kinds of risk factors that are thought to combine to help cause a disorder, with the goal of understand an individual’s risk for developing that disorder and avoiding harmful behaviors.
What is multidimensional risk analysis?
A disorder in which a person binges frequently, but then tries to undo those actions with forced purging to prevent gaining weight.
What is bulimia?
Modeling, dancing, acting, sports.
What are dangerous professions ?
A region in the cerebral cortex involved in anxiety related circuits.
What is the insula?
A method of slowly reintroducing calories to gain weight healthily while monitoring for adverse effects.
What is nutritional rehabilitation ?
A method of teaching young adults about nutrition so they understand that eating disorders are harmful to the body, and provide information on proper nutrition
What is nutrition education?