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Eating disorders
Heřmánková, Eliška ; Zemková, Jaroslava (advisor) ; Marádová, Eva (referee)
Bachelor thesis is focused on eating disorders, specifically on anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating. However, it also mentions new types of those disorders such as artorexia, bigorexia and drunkorexia. The thesis is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. Theoretical part contains basic information about afforementioned disorders, its manifestations, consequences, etiological factors and treatment, prevention is also included. All of those informations are backed up by professional literature authors who are specialized in eating disorders. In practical part there are stories of five girls who went through a certain eating disorder in their growing up. The focus is on impact of social networks and foremost on their motivations, which were crucial for them during therapy. Further off, we mention aspects which were impacted the most by the girls asked. The objective of the practical part was to find out specific motivation in therapy and evaluate the extension of social networks impact on the course of those disorders. To fulfill those objectives, I used the semi-structured interviews, which were again designed and put together according to studied sources of professional literature. Despite the sensitivity of this topic, I managed to obtain all the needed data to complete...
The comparsion of the effect of psychothrapy and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in treatment of binge eating disorder.
Jaššová, Katarína ; Papežová, Hana (advisor) ; Kocourková, Jana (referee) ; Novák, Tomáš (referee)
Introduction: Among eating disorders, the binge eating is the most common disorder with prevalence to 7,8%. It is frequently connected with overweight, or obesity. Current treatment of binge eating is based on psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy and regime approach. Recently, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation appears as hopeful therapeutic method, for example used with success as an alternative therapy to treatment of resistant major depresion. Because of its non-invasiveness, good tolerability and minimal side effects, new options of its use are studied. It seems to be a promising therapeutic method for treatment of eating disorders. Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is considered as main experimental target of stimulation for treatment of binge eating disorder. Methods: Study was conceived randomized double-blind placebo controlled. The active group was stimulated by high-frequency rTMS, with stimulation parameters: frequency 10Hz, 1500 pulses, 107s inter-train, 100 % minimal motor threshold and 10 sessions of stimulation. The control grooup was stimulated by sham rTMS coil. Both groups completed FCQ-S and FCQ- T questionnaire before stimulation, after 10. session and one month after 10. session. Results: We noticed statistically significant decrease of craving in FCQ-S questionnaire after 10. session...
Awareness of eating disorders.Comparison of knowledge among medical disciplines students and the public.
Týleová, Tereza ; Hrdličková, Renáta (advisor) ; Romaňáková, Zuzana (referee)
This Bc thesis deals with the food uptake disorders with emphasis on anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. The main purpose was to compare knowledge of students of medical disciplines and of general public. The theoretical part of the thesis contains basic information about the eating disorders. The main text defines the two best known types of the eating disoreders, namely anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, and also the less well known types such as binge eating disorder, bigorexia and orthorexia. Descibed are history of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, the diagnostic criteria for the disorders, and the risk factors inducing the disease. Described are also typical manifestation and prognosis of the disease, concomitent complications and co-morbidities, and also the possibilities of treatment. The part presenting the results of the survey is based on anonymous questionnaires for two groups. The first group consisted of the students of the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, specifically the students of the general nurse health care and nutritional therapy. The second group consisted of individuals of general public. The overall results of the research show that the general public has a good knowledge of the basic questions about food uptake disorders. Specific questions were...

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