In patients with anorexia nervosa, the brain’s reward response to taste is alternatively linked with high anxiety and a drive for thinness, and this association could play a role in driving the disorder, according to a new study published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry.
Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus monitored a large group of patients with anorexia nervosa as they tasted sugar during brain imaging.
The findings show that the brain response of anorexics...
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