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M Marnell

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The effects of extending cognitive-behavioral therapy for binge eating disorder among initial treatment nonresponders.

OBJECTIVE: The study was designed with the aim of determining whether extending group cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) would enhance outcome among individuals with binge eating disorder (BED) who failed to stop binge eating after an initial 12-week CBT intervention. METHOD: Forty-six participants who met diagnostic criteria for BED were randomly allocated to either a 12-week group CBT intervention or a waiting list control condition. At the end of 12 weeks, treated participants who met clinical criteria for improvement subsequently received 12 sessions of behavioral weight loss. Remaining participants received 12 additional sessions of CBT for binge eating. RESULTS: Fifty percent of treated participants improved with the initial 12-week course of CBT. There was a strong trend for the extension of CBT to affect improvement in binge eating among initial nonresponders (6 of 14 subjects no longer met diagnostic criteria for BED). Overall, extending CBT led to clinical improvement in 66.7% of all treated participants, with treatment gains occurring through session 20. DISCUSSION: The results suggest that an extended course of CBT (i.e., longer than 12 weeks) will likely maximize the number of potential responders to treatment.

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One-year follow-up of cognitive-behavioral therapy for obese individuals with binge eating disorder.

The results of a 1-year posttreatment follow-up of 93 obese women diagnosed as having binge eating disorder (BED) and treated with group cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) followed by weight loss treatment are described. The group as a whole maintained both reductions in binge eating and abstinence rates fairly well. However, they regained the weight lost during treatment. Those who stopped binge eating during CBT maintained a weight loss of 4.0 kg over the follow-up period. In contrast, those who continued to binge gained 3.6 kg. Twenty-six percent of those abstinent after CBT met criteria for BED at follow-up and had gained weight, whereas the remaining 74% had lost weight. Stopping binge eating appears critical to sustained weight loss in BED.

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Maintenance following a very-low-calorie diet.

The authors posed 2 questions in this randomized study of maintenance procedures in which participants were followed for 15 months after completion of a very-low-calorie diet: Would stimulus narrowing during the reintroduction of solid food, achieved by the use of prepackaged foods, improve weight losses and the maintenance of those losses as compared with the use of regular food? Would reintroduction of foods dependent on progress in losing or maintaining weight be superior to reintroduction on a time-dependent basis? Neither the stimulus narrowing condition nor the reintroduction procedure enhanced either maximum weight loss or maintenance of those losses. The stimulus narrowing condition appeared to be poorly tolerated; compliance and attendance were poorer in this condition than in the regular food condition.

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Does interpersonal therapy help patients with binge eating disorder who fail to respond to cognitive-behavioral therapy?

The aim of this quasi-experimental study was to examine the effectiveness of group interpersonal therapy (IPT) in treating overweight patients with binge eating disorder who did not stop binge eating after 12 weeks of group cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Participants in this study were randomly allocated to either group CBT or to an assessment-only control group. After 12 weeks of treatment with CBT, 55% of participants met criteria for improvement and began 12 weeks of weight loss therapy, whereas the nonresponders began 12 weeks of group IPT. Over the 24-week period, participants who received treatment reduced binge eating and weight significantly more than the waiting-list control group. However, IPT led to no further improvement for those who did not improve with CBT. Predictors of poor outcome were early onset of, and more severe, binge eating.

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Thermolabile proton translocating ATPase and pump activities in a clathrin-coated vesicle fraction from an acidification defective Chinese hamster cell line.

We have recently described a mutant of Chinese hamster ovary cells, termed G.7.1, that contains a temperature-sensitive, conditionally lethal mutation resulting in defective vacuolar acidification (Marnell, M. H., Mathis, L. S., Stookey, M., Shia, S.-P., Stone, D.K., and Draper, R. K. (1984) J. Cell Biol. 99, 1907-1916). To further characterize the lesion, clathrin-coated vesicles were partially purified from wild type and G.7.1 cells, and the thermolabilities of vanadate and oligomycin-insensitive, N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive, H+-ATPase activity, 32Pi-ATPase exchange activity, and proton pumping were compared. All three parameters of H+ pump activity were markedly diminished by preincubation at 44 degrees C for vesicles harvested from the G.7.1 cells, but not for those from wild type cells. Phosphatidylserine did not protect against heat inactivation in vesicle fractions prepared from G.7.1 cells. The results suggest that the mutation responsible for defective acidification in G.7.1 cells is expressed at the level of the proton pump of organelles present in our clathrin-coated vesicle-enriched preparation.

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