Bulimia Cognitive Treatment

Bulimia Cognitive Treatment Bulimia is a very common eating disorder typically characterized by a person eating large quantities of food then purging usually by vomiting, but also by the use of laxatives diuretics and excessive exercising. The use of cognitive treatment in the treatment of Bulimia is very common and actually very effective. There are several views that I have reviewed in my quest for information on cognitive treatments for Bulimia. People diagnosed with an …showed first 75 words of 550 total…

…showed last 75 words of 550 total…of Clinical Psychology v53n2 (Feb 1997):117-121. Several types of people including Bulimics were given a test to assess cognitive abilities. This study found that Bulimics are actually cognitively faster but less accurate. The study was pretty much inconclusive. “The pattern of results obtained in the present experiment suggests that a more fine-tuned analysis of behavioral performance in eating disorder individuals may provide a clearer picture of their underlying neuropsychological and cognitive function and dysfunction.”