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Body Dysmorphic Disorders

Known as: DISTORTION CORPOREAL, Body Image Disfunction, DISTORTION PERSONAL 
Preoccupations with appearance or self-image causing significant distress or impairment in important areas of functioning.
National Institutes of Health

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Mental disorders

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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Effects of body mass and body image on exercise motives in adolescence
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Increased risk of chronic graft-versus-host disease, obstructive bronchiolitis, and alopecia with busulfan versus total body irradiation: long-term results of a randomized trial in allogeneic marrow…
Leukemic patients receiving marrow from HLA-identical sibling donors were randomized to treatment with either busulfan 16 mg/kg… 
Review
1995
Review
1995
Weight concerns and eating patterns: a survey of university students in Europe.
OBJECTIVE To assess a wide range of health-related behaviours, beliefs and knowledge in educated young adults. DESIGN A… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Light exposure induces equivalent phase shifts of the endogenous circadian rhythms of circulating plasma melatonin and core body temperature in men.
Release of melatonin into the circulation by the pineal occurs almost exclusively during the nighttime hours. It has been… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Cognitive disorders of infantile autism: A study employing the WISC, spatial relationship conceptualization, and Gesture Imitations
Sixteen autistic children with WISC Performance IQs of 70 or above were analyzed to determine their conceptions of spatial… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Upper body and centralized adiposity in Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic whites: relationship to body mass index and other behavioral and demographic variables.
Mexican Americans have a higher prevalence of NIDDM, more overall obesity and more centralized adiposity than non-Hispanic whites… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Suppression of food intake and body weight gain by naloxone in rats.
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Inhibition of growth hormone secretion in the rat by synthetic somatostatin.
Synthetic (linear) somatostatin lowers the circulating levels of immunoreactive growth hormone of “gentled” rats; it prevents or… 
Review
1973
Review
1973
Body Temperatures in the Elderly: A National Study of Physiological, Social, and Environmental Conditions
Two large-scale surveys of body temperatures in elderly people living at home were carried out in the winter of 1972. Most of the… 
Highly Cited
1969
Highly Cited
1969
Control of body temperature in the unanaesthetized monkey by cholinergic and aminergic systems in the hypothalamus
1. In the unanaesthetized rhesus monkey, 5‐hydroxytryptamine (5‐HT), catecholamines, acetylcholine or carbachol were micro… 
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