Structural brain differences in recovering and weight-recovered adult outpatient women with anorexia nervosa.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Anorexia nervosa is a complex psychiatric illness that includes severe low body weight with cognitive distortions and altered eating behaviors. Brain structures, including cortical thicknesses in many regions, are reduced in underweight patients who are acutely ill with anorexia nervosa. However, few studies have examined adult outpatients in the process of recovering from anorexia nervosa. Evaluating neurobiological problems at different physiological stages of anorexia nervosa may facilitate our understanding of the recovery process.

Methods

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images from 37 partially weight-restored women with anorexia nervosa (pwAN), 32 women with a history of anorexia nervosa maintaining weight restoration (wrAN), and 41 healthy control women we

SUBMITTER: Brodrick BB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8414694 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature