Conclusion: Considering the high prevalence of Body
Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) among rhinoplasty candidates, psychiatric evaluation is advisable before surgery to avoid unnecessary operations and patient dissatisfaction.
Anunderrecognized form of body
dysmorphic disorder.
Cash and colleagues (2004) propose that body image disturbance lies on a continuum where less severe negative body image can be considered body image dissatisfaction, while the extreme end of the continuum contains greater distress consistent with Body
Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD).
Dysmorphic features have only rarely been reported in patients with hereditary neuropathy.
Body
dysmorphic disorder (BDD) affects men and women equally.
This study analyzed the psychometric properties of the second version of the Assessment Scale for Body
Dysmorphic Disorder (AS-BDD).
Sadly for anyone living with body
dysmorphic disorder, things are a little different.
I don't know how we stop this trend towards total body
dysmorphic disorder, but at some point it's got to stop.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Three criteria for diagnosing body
dysmorphic disorder could increase to four under a proposal aimed at requiring that the patient demonstrate repetitive behaviors or mental acts in response to appearance concerns at some point during the course of the disorder.
The prevalence of body
dysmorphic disorder has been reported as about 2% in nationwide epidemiologic studies, 2%-13% in nonclinical student samples, and 13%-16% in psychiatric inpatients.
Demographic characteristics, phenomenology comorbidity; and family history in 200 individuals with body
dysmorphic disorder.
The topics include the relationship of body
dysmorphic disorder and eating disorders to obsessive-compulsive disorder, symptoms dimensions in obsessive-compulsive disorder and implications for DSM-V, genetics, neurological considerations in autism and Parkinson's Disease, cross-species models, and cross-national and ethnic issues.