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A Controlled Study of the EEG in Anorexia Nervosa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Arthur H. Crisp ,
George W. Fenton  and
Leila Scotton
Arthur H. Crisp
Affiliation:
St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, S. W.1
George W. Fenton
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
Leila Scotton
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Psychiatry, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London, W.1
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The nutritional disturbance in anorexia nervosa almost invariably leads to striking physiological changes, which include amenorrhoea, bradycardia, hypotension and relative hypothermia with reversal of the usual diurnal temperature rhythm (Bliss and Branch, 1960; Mayer-Gross et al., 1960; Crisp and Roberts, 1962; Crisp, 1967a). Crisp (1965a, 1967a) has commented on the characteristic and excessive alertness, restlessness and insomnia displayed by anorexia nervosa patients, whom he regards as showing a specific type of malnutrition associated with carbohydrate starvation. Russell (1967) has also recently demonstrated that patients with this illness restrict especially their carbohydrate intake.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 114 , Issue 514 , September 1968 , pp. 1149 - 1160
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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