Eating disorder not otherwise specified an especially prevalent category in populations that have received inadequate research attention such as young children, males, ethnic minorities, and non-Western groups. Eating disorder not otherwise specified Eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS) is an eating disorder that is no longer recognized in the most recent version of the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM). In 2013, it was replaced by other specified feeding or eating disorder (OSFED) in DSM-5. Eating disorder not otherwise specified is an eating disorder that does not meet the criteria for: anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. Individuals with EDNOS usually fall into one
Other specified feeding or eating disorder in the literature, as it was perceived to be uncommon compared to the other defined eating disorders. In "DSM-III-R", published in 1987, the Atypical Eating Disorder category became known as Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (EDNOS). "DSM-III-R" included examples of individuals who would meet criteria for EDNOS, in part to acknowledge the increasingly recognized heterogeneity of individuals within the diagnostic category. In 1994, "DSM-IV" was published and expanded EDNOS to include six clinical presentations. These presentations included individuals who: A disadvantage of "DSM-IV"'s broad EDNOS category was that people with very different symptoms were still classified as having the same