“…4, 469-474 (1988) of concurrent incidence of depression (Herzog, 1984;Walsh, Roose, Glassman, Gladis, & Sadik, 1985), of family history (Hudson, Laffer, & Pope, 1982), and of neuroendocrine abnormalities (Gwirtsman, Roy-Byrne, Yager, & Gerner, 1983). However, recent reviews of the literature on eating disorders and depression have concluded that although there are important links between these two disorders, there is not sufficient evidence to support the hypothesis of a common etiology (Halmi, 1985;Strober & Katz, 1987;Swift, Andrews & Barklage, 1986). While this controversy remains unsettled, it is clear that negative mood states predominate during binge-purge activity and that these moods correspond directly to the accumulation of abnormal eating behaviors (Johnson-Sabine, Wood, & Wakeling, 1984).…”