To support our students in BSIC 105 the Department has developed a series 5-10-minute supplemental videos exploring some of the topics you learn in BSCI 105 and how they are related to familiar (and interesting) psychological phenomena.In this module, we explore how Anorexia Nervosa impacts the body. The limited food intake affects the body’s ability to get energy and may cause a condition known as edema.
Watch Anorexia Nervosa, Metabolism, & Osmosis
Download the script
See quiz questions and answers
Textbook Chapters* to Refer to:
Ch. 7: Membrane Structure and Function
Ch. 8: Introduction to Metabolism
Sources:
*Reece, J.B., Urry, LA., Cain, M.L., Wasserman, S.A., Minorsky, P.V., Jackson, R.B. (2011). Campbell Biology (9th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Pearson Benjamin Cummings.
Goodenough, J.G., Wallace, R.A., McGuire B. (1998). Human Biology. Barrosse, E. (Ed.). Orlando, FL: Saunders College Publishing.
Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (2007). Abnormal Psychology (4th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Derman, O., Kilic, E.Z (2009). Edema can be a handicap in treatment of anorexia nervosa. Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 51(6), 593-7.
Statistics Sources and Additional Resources:
• National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (http://www.anad.org/)
• National Eating Disorders – Statistics (http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/general-statistics)
• NIMH: National Institute of Mental Health – Eating Disorders Among Children (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/statistics/1eat_child.shtml)
• Eating Disorders Review (http://eatingdisordersreview.com/)
• American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 152 (7), July 1995, p. 1073-1074, Sullivan, Patrick F. (I can only find the abstract of this article online: http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleID=171119)
• J. Kask, L. Ekselius, L. Brandt, A. Ekbom, F.C. Papadopoulos, 2138 – Psychiatric comorbidity and mortality in women with anorexia nervosa, European Psychiatry, Volume 28, Supplement 1, 2013, Page 1 (http://www.sciencedirect.com.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/science/article/pii/S0924933813770238)
