Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 50, Issue 5 , Pages 391-399 , September 2009

Development of criteria for a diagnosis: lessons from the night eating syndrome

  • Albert J. Stunkard

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychiatry, Center for Weight and Eating Disorders, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3309, USA. Tel.: +1 215 898 7314; fax: +1 215 898 2878.
    • ,
  • Kelly C. Allison

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    • ,
  • Allan Geliebter

      Affiliations

    • New York Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia, University, New York, NY, USA
    • ,
  • Jennifer D. Lundgren

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Missouri, Kansas, MO, USA
    • ,
  • Marci E. Gluck

      Affiliations

    • Obesity and Diabetes Clinical Research Section, Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research Branch, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, MD
    • ,
  • John P. O'Reardon

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2008.09.013

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 50, Issue 5 , Pages 391-399 , September 2009

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