Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 51, Issue 5 , Pages 531-537 , September 2010

Psychiatric, behavioral, and attitudinal correlates of avoidant and obsessive-compulsive personality pathology in patients with binge-eating disorder

  • Daniel F. Becker

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Mills-Peninsula Medical Center, Burlingame, CA 94010, USA. Tel.: +1 650 696 5912; fax: +1 650 696 5901.
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  • Robin M. Masheb

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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  • Marney A. White

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
    • ,
  • Carlos M. Grilo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
    • Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA

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 This work was supported in part by National Institutes of Health grants to Dr Grilo (R01 DK49587, K24 DK070052) and Dr White (K23 DK071646).

 Presented in part at the 162nd annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, May 16-21, 2009.

PII: S0010-440X(09)00137-0

doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2009.11.005

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 51, Issue 5 , Pages 531-537 , September 2010

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