Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 41, Issue 3 , Pages 159-162 , May 2000

Binge eating disorder: A need for additional diagnostic criteria

  • Robin M. Masheb
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  • Carlos M. Grilo

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Carlos M. Grilo, Ph.D., Yale Psychiatric Institute, 184 Libertv St, New Haven, CT 06519.

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 Supported by National Institutes of Health Grants No. DK49587 and MH55138.

PII: S0010-440X(00)90041-5

doi: 10.1016/S0010-440X(00)90041-5

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 41, Issue 3 , Pages 159-162 , May 2000

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