Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 3 , Pages 277-287 , March 2010

Diagnostic Classification of Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents: How Does DSM-IV-TR Compare to Empirically-Derived Categories?

This work was presented at the Conference on the Classification and Diagnosis of Eating Disorders, Washington DC, March 2009 (NIMH R13MH081447 [Wonderlich]) and at the Eating Disorders Research Society Meeting, Brooklyn, NY, September 2009.

  • Kamryn T. Eddy, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Kamryn T. Eddy, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, 2 Longfellow Place, Suite 200, Boston, MA 02114. TEL: 617-724-1744; FAX: 617-726-1595
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  • Daniel Le Grange, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • University of Chicago
    • ,
  • Ross D. Crosby, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Neuropsychiatric Research Institute
    • ,
  • Renee Rienecke Hoste, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • University of Chicago
    • ,
  • Angela Celio Doyle, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • University of Chicago
    • ,
  • Angela Smyth, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • University of Chicago
    • ,
  • David B. Herzog, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

,Accepted 3 November 2009.

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 This article can be used to obtain continuing medical education (CME) category 1 credit at jaacap.org.

 Support for this research was provided by grants to the first author through NIMH (F32MH084396), Harvard Medical School (Livingston Fellowship Award), and the Harris Center at Massachusetts General Hospital.

 Disclosure: Drs. Eddy, Herzog, Le Grange, Hoste, Doyle, Smyth, and Crosby report no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest.

PII: S0890-8567(09)00029-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2009.10.012

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 3 , Pages 277-287 , March 2010

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